Corinth

Paul wrote what is now the book of First Corinthians as a letter to the church of Corinth. After hearing of disputes and worries from members of the church, Paul wrote the congregation letters (including first and second Corinthians) as counsel to guide the church back to the right path (Elwell & Yarbrough, 273). One of the problems listed is the concern of marriage. Paul responds to questions such as: should Christians get married? And what basis is there for divorce? In relation to today’s…

magic. Medea fled from a city in Asia with Jason after killing her brother. After leaving Asia, Medea and Jason live in the city of Corinth. After some time, Jason leaves Medea for King Creon’s daughter, Glauce. King Creon decides to exile Medea and her children from the city of Corinth, due to his fear of a revenge from Medea. Medea then pleads for one more night in Corinth, so she can gather up her and her children’s belongings. King Creon agrees to these terms, which is how Medea’s story…

In the book Oedipus the king, Oedipus tries to solve the murder of King Laius and is faced with the prophecy of killing his father, and also marrying and killing his mother. This prophecy does not allow for there to be much free will as it influences Oedipus as he will need to face the burden of killing his mother and father which takes away a lot of his free will as he will be influenced a lot by the prophecy. In the play, Oedipus’ entire life was controlled by the gods as Sophocles…

could have avoided this very harsh fate easily and had multiple chances throughout the course of his life. Oedipus could had avoid his fate while he was still in Corinth, while he was traveling on the road, or found the city of Thebes. There are three events in this places that pushed him even further on his path of his fate. In Corinth, Oedipus found out that he had a prophecy to kill the father that begot him and have children with his mother unknowingly from an oracle. He could have gone back…

The Peloponnesian War was a long battle between the two greatest city-states of Greece, Athens and Sparta. The war took nearly thirty years until its final end; it was from 431-404 B.C. In the beginning of the war Athens controlled one of the strongest empires, at the end of the war Athens could barely maintain itself. Why? Thucydides, an Athenian general at the time left us with an excessive amount of knowledge on this war, as he wrote a textbook on the war called “History of the Peloponnesian…

This book review offers a critical analysis and evaluation of Sze-Kar Wan’s book, Power in Weakness: The Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians. First published in 2000, Power in Weakness, examines 2 Corinthians with a focus on Paul’s rhetorical strategies and the various conflicts Paul has with the church. Before launching into the summary and critique of this book a brief synopsis reveals Wan’s interpretation of 2 Corinthians’ construction. After contextualizing the book, attention turns…

The Control of Fate in Oedipus Rex It is a common theme in much of ancient greek literature that mortals do not control their own fate. Prophecies are sent from the gods, and the gods are never wrong. In a few stories, the mortal hero bests the gods and does manage to change his fate. Oedipus Rex is unfortunately not one of these stories. This play starts off with a King and a Queen being told of a prophecy. The prophecy states that their son will kill his father, and sleep with his mother.…

Oedipus: A clever man who ran away from his home in fear to prevent the prophecies of him killing his father and marrying his mother from coming true. He is short-tempered when we came across a caravan when he was running away from home. The people of Thebes praise him because he was clever solved the Sphinx's riddle. He is very motivated in finding the murderer of King Laius. He is very selfish and arrogant, thinking he's better than everyone. He is very ignorant and refuses to believe the…

and have kids with her. To run away from this prediction, Oedipus “literally” runs away from Corinth, so that the prediction does not come true. But the irony is that, all of this led him to marry his “real mother” Jocasta, and have babies with her and led him to murder his father Laius unknowingly. The further he tried to run from the prediction, the closer her got to it. The fact that Oedipus left Corinth, and the fact that he wanted the murderer of Laius to be exiled, led to the irony, for…

After the Persian wars where Athens and Sparta defeated the Persian empire in 479 BC the golden age of Greece was born an age of great military, political and philosophical advancement. The Peloponnesian Wars were caused by Sparta’s fear of the spread of democracy, coupled with Athenian expansion goals, these great ambitions led to the loss of the Peloponnesian war and brought about the collapse of the Athenian empire. The approach that will be used to examine this is by examining the…