Thebes

The forms of government in Ancient Thebes and Ancient Athens were antithetical, with Thebes having an absolute dictatorship and Athens having a pure, direct democracy. Nevertheless, both of these forms of government ultimately failed, as Sophocles demonstrates in his play, Antigone, and Thucydides demonstrates in his book, History of the Peloponnesian War. Together, these two works teach modern society that neither a pure democracy nor a pure dictatorship can be a successful political system due…

The Inner Jovian Moons For the moon project I recieved the Inner Jovian moons. The Inner Jovian Moons are four different moons of Jupiter. The names of these moons are Adrastea, Metis, Amalthea, and Thebe. Each of these moons get their names from Greek Mythology. They Were all discovered by different people. As it goes for research I found that all of these moons have very little to be known about them. They do not know the rotational period of any of these moons. A lot of the pictures at are…

pride and anger for the reader to acknowledge his downfall. Oedipus had complete power over Thebes. The people of Thebes were desperate until Oedipus came and solved the Sphinx’s riddle and the monster plunged to her death. Sophocles made Oedipus immediately become the king of Thebes to show his instantaneous authority and the vulnerability of the people for a leader after the Sphinx. A few years later, Thebes is suffering from a plague. The play begins…

In Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex, the new king of Thebes, Oedipus, is unable to keep his position as king due to his central problem: he does not know himself. Oedipus’ failure to know neither his birth parents nor his past leads to his inevitable downfall. King Oedipus does not know who his real birth parents are. As a child, his parents left him to die on a hill in order to prevent a prophecy they were told. Before he could die, he was picked up by a shepherd and given to another couple in…

Greece was a place of a variety of differences in geography, ranging from the tall mountains to the blue Aegean Sea. In fact, even the Mediterranean climate was a factor in the Greek’s life, like the city state of Thebes. But despite some geographical differences, Greece maintained themselves and use the geography to their advantage in society, trade, and culture, socially, politically, and economically. Greece found ways to control geography, rather than letting geography control it. Greeks…

different character since he was responsible for deciding his own justice. In the play “Oedipus King” Oedipus Rex, the main character, is the king of the city of Thebes. As the king has, his responsibilities are immense since he doesn’t worry for his personal problems, but he also worries for the problems of every single inhabitant of Thebes. Oedipus was the type of man who believed that every man or woman were to be treated equally beneath the law. The pride he possessed behind every…

present the Greek city state of Thebes in turmoil as citizens attempt to deal with the problems created by their leaders’ questionable actions and decisions. The chorus of Antigone presents the concepts of paternalism and anarchy in opposition in order to depict Antigone as ironically trapped between the edicts of two paternal figures: her uncle the king Creon and the ultimate father--Zeus. Throughout Antigone, Sophocles establishes anarchy as a societal taboo in Thebes. The chorus, in…

King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes are told a horrific oracle in which their son kills his father, marries his mother, and has children with her as well. In order to prevent the oracle from coming true, they abandon their son, Oedipus, on top of a mountain. A man working for King Polybus, who is the king of Corinth, finds Oedipus and gives him to King Polybus and Queen Merope. Many years later, Oedipus hears the oracle and decides to leave Corinth and go to Thebes to escape the tragedy…

PLOT is the “first principle,” the most vital piece of tragedy. Oedipus is a man who became king of thebes after defeating the monstrous sphinx that was plaguing the city. He is presented as a great man but as the story unfolds Oedipus is shown to violence and aggression as he approaches the truth of his life. Oedipus was left to die on mountains after it was revelead to his father the king of thebes that his son would kill him and sleep with his own mother. Oedipus is saved and raised by the…

Bernard Baffoe-Mensah Ms. Milewski AP English Literature 21st October, 2014 Civil Disobedience The order of society is based on structure and organization. Laws are enforced to serve specific purposes: economically, politically and socially. With regards to this, there are unjust laws and these laws conflict with an individual’s sense of morality. Being that, a civilian’s decision to disobey an unjust law is considered unlawful in the eyes of authority; however, such decisions are…