Aeschylus

This paper focuses on the achievements Greeks made in: Arts, Science, Literature and Philosophy. This paper examines each subject of achievement in detail while looking at ancient Greek civilization. In regards to the Greeks achievement in Art, this paper looks at: what was considered Art in Ancient Greece, Famous Greek art pieces, different forms of Art like: Pottery, Sculpture, The Human Body and Architectural structures. For Greek literature, we will examine the alphabet, Greek writers like…

Back home, one of my former classmates awaits his sentencing after recently being found guilty of capital murder. He has a calm temperament, a few friends and ability for genius endeavors. No one thought anything of him, until he killed a elderly man and attacked the man’s wife in the couple’s own home. He chose the house because it “felt right” and the day because the “weather was beautiful,” He came to school the next day and aced his chemistry test. The following day, police arrested him and…

Perhaps this came from a conception that the Greeks, boasting the likes of Homer, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Sokrates, were an erudite people. For this reason we can infer that the Romans did not think of the Greeks as barbarians. Moreover, it is believed that the first work of Latin literature was a translation of the Odyssey…

Birth of Culture and Musical Theater The lady smiles while she directs you to your seat. “Third row down, to the two seats at the very left side.” You find your seat as you comfortably start to settle down making sure that you can see the stage since you paid a little more money in order for you to be at the very front closer to the actors. The energy feels excited but still content. You hear the rest of the people talking quietly to the person next to them. The third bell rung however, the…

The culture of the west and thought begun with the classical Greece. These officially started in the year 1500BC; however, the interruption of the culture of the West was about 1100-900BC during the dark ages of the Greek. The intrusion took momentum at the beginning of 900BC a classical period when the Greece would enter into their most glorious period (Merchant, 98). It is also a time when they were setting the basis for the dominant empires and nations in the millennia and the centuries to…

Slavery is a system that has been around before written records existed. But this system has not been uniform in defining what a slave is nor if a slave has any privileges. Epitomising this is the Mesoamerican examples of the Aztecs and the Maya. While the Mayans’ slaves were hereditary, the Aztecs’ were personal, so slaves’ children were free. Moreover slaves could own other slaves in this society, very rare in slavery throughout the world. Consequently it is perhaps naïve to define slavery as…

Introduction: The Existential Significance of Mythology Mythology provides a great wealth of material that is not only profound to think about, but also good to think with. Quoting Joseph Campbell; “Mythologies are allegorical interpretations of living realities, once experienced with such intensity that since continued to shape the human consciousness and their world” (1). Here, myths are not merely fictional stories telling, but uninterrupted existential experiences of the human sphere,…

The first is the well-known story of the Greek god, Prometheus. From Babylon, a land grant document contains elements of a negative revelation of secrets. Aeschylus version registers as the most striking ANE source for his study. A Titan, Prometheus sided with the Olympians in the Titanomachy, but his later protection of humanity put Prometheus in opposition to Zeus. After a series of machinations, Zeus hid…

Edward Said’s Orientalism and his critique of the West has been called both controversial and groundbreaking. In his book, he outlines the different ways the Western world since the beginning of time has “othered” the East and therefore taken advantage of and exploited its peoples and cultures all while serving its own imperialist schema. While I agree with the argument that the West is responsible for a number of injustices against “orient,” namely that the West created a binary division of the…

Kaylee Argo Ms. DeGreef English IV 10 March 2017 The Tales of Greek Gods and Goddesses “Slay the monster Medusa and bring me her head,” said the king to a poor, yet valiant young Perseus (D’aulaire 114). It was his plot to get rid of the boy, so he could marry his mother. No man had set out to kill Medusa and come back alive, until Perseus. The tales of the Greek gods and goddesses are intertwined in history. They have been recited by many different cultures and told many different ways. That…