Euripides

The Marriage of "Polar" Forces: Religion and Politics Politics is rigid and seeks power sometimes to the point of excess. Religion introduces passionate and at time irrational advocating for justice on behalf of the disadvantaged. They come into conflict, but also work in tandem to satiate the human desire to have a means of defense against a perceived enemy. These two forces each contribute to a necessary balance to the structure of society. Euripides Bacchae features an ambitious king named…

Creon loses all of his surviving family, including his wife, Euripides and his only surviving son, Haimon, but he survives at the end, making it all that much more cruel because he will be haunted by the decisions he made that offended the gods and caused the deaths of those who mattered most to him. This will undoubtedly…

Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remebered particulary for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in arachaic Athens. Cleisthenes was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting in on a deocratic footing. For these accomplisments, historians refer to him as "the father of Athenian democracy." Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He…

many cases, madness is simply the over-stigmatization of opposing ideas from those already set by societal norms and traditions. Depending on your environment, different practices are viewed as irrational, illegal in some extremes. In the Bacchae, Euripides exploits the duality of madness and its ability to destroy societal constraints, namely through his presentation of ambiguous gender roles and gender identity. In the Bacchae, madness echoes the duality of man by being portrayed as a double…

In Plato’s philosophical text The Symposium, several characters, including Socrates, Pausanias, and Eryximachus, give speeches in praise of Love and human sexuality. Xenophon’s Symposium, on the other hand, balances seriousness (σποθδή) and playfulness (παιδία) to discuss love, desire, knowledge, and wealth (X. Sym. 1.1). Plato’s doctor, Eryximachus, establishes his medical expertise by providing medical advice, as well as his medical opinion on the nature of love. Xenophon’s Niceratus…

could study philosophy. Around 463 BC he decided to move to Athens, which was fast becoming the intellectual center of the time, while he was there he became friends with a politician by the name of Pericles and he became friends with the playwright Euripides. Anaxagoras was the first person to put forth the molecular theory of matter, “he believed that matter was infinitely divisible” (Anaxagoras of Clazomenae). Anaxagoras was also the first person to propose that our solar system began as…

“Wire Hangers”: Hollywood’s Version of Mental Illness The air of the bedroom has gone as still as the breath of the child cowering in her bed. A figure, her mother, stares hauntingly into her closet as a maddening inhuman shriek claws its way out of her throat. She turns toward her daughter, wearing a grimace of seemingly inhuman nature, and screeches “No. Wire. Hangers!!” Spittle forming at the corner of her snarl, cold eyes wide and unblinking, and veins protruding from every vessel in her…

During the Hellenistic period, the worldview of the Greek and Romans dominated the culture. The Hellenistic worldview shared common beliefs and practices of that of the Biblical worldview while it also acquired uniqueness. The Christian worldview established one leader of the populace known as God, who they believed created all things (Lawall, 2006, p.3). On the other hand, the Hellenistic worldview recognized a chief ruler known as Zeus, who was the most potent of all the gods (Lawall, 2006, p…

elements and unlike the traditional Greek religion, orphism emphasized individual redemption ( Astour 30). Orphic moral and ritual writings would later influence “ in doing-but its influence was nevertheless very great. It inspired many pages of Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plato, and its integration into Pythagoreanism assured its partial survival as a component of more than one philosophical school”(Astour 30). Even after Greece lost control over its colonies in southern Italy, many artifacts…

The Pelican Analysis In 1899, Edith Wharton published “The Pelican”. She published this short story, like many of her other works, to express the failure that she felt towards herself and her disappointment she felt when her husbands abandoned her. During Wharton’s life she has experienced nervous breakdowns, paralyzing depressions, broken engagements, multiple divorces, and mistreatment by society. Since she has undergone such trauma throughout her life, Wharton thinks of herself poorly and…