Corinth

choices in all ended him. He easily could have humbly denied the proposal of him becoming King and then he would have never married his mother but I think he was too worried about the Oracle to think straightly. Before he had left his village of Corinth he stated that he was,”Full of wretchedness, dreadful, and unbearable” (Sophocles 63). If was thinking straightly and truly wanted to not fulfill the Oracle's prediction then he would have remained single and not married anyone his entire life.…

prophecies of the gods, but actually did what he feared the most and what the prophecy had warned him against. “The Oracle of Delphi” told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother (Sophocles, n.d.). In his attempt to avoid this he leaves “Corinth” and travels towards “Thebes”. During his travels, he kills an old man and later marries…

in the play Medea have been sprouting up long before law and morality were even considered in the matter. In the play, Medea is a woman who has essentially gone insane with the pure essence of revenge after her husband left her for the princess of Corinth, Glauce, after which she decides to kill her ex husband,Jason's new wife Glauce(kills the king, Creon in the process), and ultimately her two young sons.…

The newly form religion called Christian would have a lot of growing pains over the next two centuries. Important Christian figure like the Apostles were being killed off. The Christian authority figures calling Apostles martyrs and anyone else who dies still believing in Christ love. The Church was looking to become more then that religion that people get to watch die in the colosseum. The religion still being new and did not have many followers and most of the followers were the poor, women,…

When man and woman were created, the idea was to be equal among each other. However, as the world evolved so did women. Women developed into various sizes, colors and personalities. It’s the personality of women that made the world interesting by the design of stereotyping. A stereotype is defining someone in a particular group or class as either positive or negative that’s not necessarily true. For example, women can be defined as classy, intelligent, independent, gold diggers,…

Tragedy is as prominent today as it was during its origins in ancient Greece. It is a dramatic and literary archetype that instills a dreary ambience within various works of literature. Through the characterization, it “treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual” (Britannica). Although, tragedy was originally intended for the stage, it has been utilized by numerous literary works. The origins of the term, Tragedy are…

it still happened. Laius and Jocasta, in fear if the prophecy, gave Oedipus to the shepherd for him to leave on a mountain to die, but it was destined that Oedipus would not die and fulfill his fate. Once finding about the prophecy, Oedipus fled Corinth, in fear that the prophecy would come try. And tried to prevent the prophecy from coming true, but without knowing it, he killed his father and slept with his mother. Even with all of these obstacles placed to…

Homeric and Hellenistic Epics and Tragedy are two genres distinct from one another in many ways. Tragedy is more compact than Epic, not wasting time on repetition or embellishments. They also differ in that the purpose of Tragedy is to show the downfall of great heroes and royalty, but Epic focused more on the heroic code and the glory of heroes. One of the things that both genres showcase though, is fate is important in everyone’s lives. Although Greek society’s ideals of heroes have changed…

The Peloponnesian War was a long war fought by the two Greek City-states Athens and Sparta. The Athenian empire was on the rise and had control of the sea with the most powerful navy of the time, whereas the Spartans controlled the Greece mainland with the one of the most powerful armies of its time as well. The resulting conflict between the two led to a 30 year period filled with battles, treachery, and large amounts of unexpected consequences. At the conclusion of the long war, Athens was no…

One cannot understand the dilemma that Oedipus is stuck in in the classical Greek play Oedipus Rex. Being stuck between his own interests and the interests of his polis, emphasized by his position as King of Thebes, causes a tragic realization and emphasis on the many values of the people of his time and culture. The biggest issue Oedipus is faced with is his importance to his polis. With the polis being an essential part of Greek identity, Oedipus holds the issue of the ensuing plague as a high…