... enraged that the gods could have removed the ancient laws. Instead of allowing the Furies to wreak havoc and destruction upon the land, Athena gives them land of their own to control. She gives the Furies a new job that makes them benefit from upholding and supporting the new system.The new system allows for people to have a fair trial, and it does not leave everybody dead in the end. The old system ... where justice equaled revenge was out of ... date and not practical because in the end everybody ... ...

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... whole future. The play, Oedipus the King, illustrates that despite all consequences, the truth should be known. In the beginning of the play, Oedipus's brother-in-law Creon was sent to visit the Gods. There was a terrible pestilence in the city after the previous king's death, and Creon was supposed to find out how the city could rid itself of it. When Creon returned, he bore the message, "The man is dead; and now ... told. Along with the advice from the Gods, Oedipus himself gave a second piece of evidence that proves the truth should've been known throughout the play. Trying to follow ...

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... up Mezentius' armour as an offering and spoils in the form of armour stripped from dead warriors are bolted to temple doors. If the man-made instruments of war are worthy of the deities, then it could be argued that warfare itself is an honourable occupation. It also appears that the death of the enemy is the true prize of the aristoi, a prize which even the goddess Venus looks forward to, "Tomorrow's light ... and riches through conquest. War was synonymous with greatness; without martial prowess, a leader was seen as weak and incapable of protecting his people or expanding his land. Y...

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... so many obstacle courses in his life. During all this everyone is effected by it the wife the town and most importantly his own son. his son had faith in his father regardless of what anyone had said about him. At one point Telemachus (Odysseus' Son) thought he was dead. But they were soon reunited, and traveled home together. Hamlet in a way relates to ... the Odyssey, as some of us know Hamlet was about Prince who loved his father very deeply and yet ... as well. Overall they were both different also it took place in different times, different countries, and they were different types...

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... be home. He gives thanx to the Sun, Zeus and the king of Pytho. Pytho is the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. Traditionally the Greeks were nearly defeated in Troy by Apollo's arrows due to a plague cast upon the Greeks by Apollo. He talks to the god of the market, Hermes that is the Greek name for Murcury, the messenger god. The Herald remembers the dead: "Shining dead of the land who launched the armies" He realises that he was ... one of the lucky ones. It was a great sorriw for the Greeks to think they would be buried abroad or not buried at ... ...

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... was defense and to fight as far away from the city walls of troy. King Priam wanted to defeat the enemy at the shores where they would land. The backup plan was to fight the Greeks on the plain of troy keeping them from the walls. So all in all the Greeks were more offense and the Trojans were the defense. Instead of reaching Troy the Greeks land at Mysia and after a battle received directions to ... Troy from the king. This could be more or less true but according to Strauss it shows how bad the navigation system was in the old days. Strauss also points out the hierarchy of the ... th...

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... by settling down at Makor. Also in the chapter "In the Gymnasium" the Hebrews continued to circumcise their babies even though if they were caught they would be lashed until dead. Another example is in the chapter "Yigal and His Three Generals" where they stood in the way of the Romans unarmed but wouldn"t allow them to put the statues of Caligula in their land. The Hebrews institutions were there synagogues. Their ... rabbis were very wise men who were usually in charge. The rabbis taught the children of their values and religion. b) The Greeks who were much different ... ...

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... was not completely unfaithful to his wife. If he had not resisted temptation, he would have been on the island of the Lotos Eaters, dead, or without a wife. Next, Odysseus learned that greed would never result in any good. After they visit Aiolia, Odysseus received a bag of wind of wind from Aiolos. His crew got jealous because they did not get anything, "How about ourselves - his ... bag, there's gold and silver plenty in that bag!" (X. 46-50). When they opened it up, the wind got loose and propelled them back to where they started, "Then every wind roared into hurricane; the ships wen...

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... against her own family in her homeland in order to help Jason. Specifically she says, "And I myself betrayed my father and my home, and came with you to Pelias" land of Iolcus. And then, showing more willingness to help than wisdom, I killed him, Pelias, with a most dreadful death," (ME, 481-5) Medea mercilessly destroyed her connections with her life for Jason, whom ... for all to witness. As Clytaemestra is standing over the dead bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra, she happily announces their death with the confession of the brutal murders. She arrogantly tells the chorus of her trium...

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... no longer wants to inflict this plague on his people and shows that he wants to do what is best for his people when he tells Creon: "Drive me out of the land at once, far from sight, where I can never hear a human voice" (245). Oedipus is also very demanding; he insists Tiresias tell him ... the prophecy against Tiresias" wishes. When Tiresias tells him that he is the murderer he instantly accuses Tiresias of being involved in the crime (179). He later shows this same attribute when he screams at the shepherd to tell him who his parents were. Oedipus shouted at the shepherd, "You"re a d...

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... Upon this misfortune, he and his men started a raid on the land of the Cicones. However, this only provided them with temporary success. The Cicones had struck back and defeated a vast majority of Odysseus's crew. This was their first of many disastrous experiences to come. Storms then blew his ships to Libya and the land of the Lotus-eaters, where the crew was given Lotus fruit from which most lost their entire ... memories from home. Odysseus, and the others who had not tasted it, recovered the sailors by force, and set sail again, westward, this time to the island of the Cyclops, a w...

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... his wife, Queen Acretes • Eurycleia- Odysseus" maid since childhood • Teiresias- a dead prophet who lived in the underworld • Calypso- a nymph who took care of Odysseus for 7 years • Polyphemus- a Cyclops; son of Poseidon • Menelaus- husband of Helen; King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon • Nausicaa- daughter of Alcinous and Queen Acretes • Aeolus- God of the Wind; Poseidon's cousin • Telemachus- Odysseus" son • Eumaeus- a swineherd who ... another blow to Odysseus- a storm that sent him to the land of the Phaeacians. King Alcinous ruled the Phaeacians, with the help of...

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... , Antigone, composed by Sophocles, illustrates the fight of a courageous young girl struggling to justify the burial of her brother. Although Creon, the powerful King of Thebes has established a law prohibiting the burial of Polynices, his sister, Antigone ignores his decree and honors her dead brother by giving him a proper burial. Creon considers Antigone's actions criminal, offensive, and disrespectful. For committing this crime, Creon sentences Antigone to die. Antigone's fight ... life to please them. She believed her actions were morally and ethically just. It is more important to ...

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... Ithaca, Athena appears to the hero. Because his home is full of enemies, she advises him to proceed disguised as a beggar" (928). Without the help of Athena, Odysseus may have walked straight in and ended up murdered. The goddess, Circe, at one point gives Odysseus directions on how to return home. She advises him to pay a trip to the Land of the Dead. Once there, the Prince of Thebes tells him, " ... Great Captain,/a fair wind and the honey lights of home/are all you seek" (905). He then ... proceeds to give Odysseus instructions. In other words, without the help of the gods and goddess...

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... to see one such situation that would have been confronting to the Grecian audiences. The entirety of the play is staged on the front steps of Jason's house - the one "neutral" territory between male and female relations. The steps symbolize the no-mans-land between the home, the source of power for women, and the public domain, the place of power for men. But even in this impartial territory, Medea, a woman, has ... holds this enormous power; more than enough to scare the pants off of the audience, and make them wonder how she has such power. But this wonder soon turns to horror when Med...

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... without thinking any more about Polyphemus situation. Odysseus makes another cunning decision during his journey after he learns about the possible fate of his faithful crew. Odysseus gains this information from a dead poet named Teiresias in Erebus, known as the land of the dead. The dead man tells him about Charybdis, the risky whirlpool, and Scylla the six-headed, female monster. If Odysseus decides to chance his crew's lives with Charybdis, all ... of the men might survive, or the swirly monster may devour all of the crew. Odysseus contemplates a plan where he could steer by Scylla ...

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... . I myself would not have risked my life to ensure a proper burial for anyone, whether it was in modern times or back then. To go against authority and break the laws given by the monarch was a plain senseless act. When someone is dead we now know there is nothing else anyone or anything can do for them at that point. It is too bad ... the Greeks did not believe that. As I stated before, afterlife to the Greeks was more important than living life itself. The Greeks seemed to spend most if not all of their lives preparing in some way for ... their kings because they are the almighty lawg...

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... and had to be dragged off to the ship by Ulysses. Hecuba's youngest son, Polydorus, however had been secretly sent by his father to be brought up as far away from the Trojan war in a land opposite of Troy named Thrace. He was sent to Thrace to be spared of the cruel fate of his other siblings who were now dead. It was there that he was to ... be watched for and protected under the trusted Thracian king, Polymestor. When Polymestor, however, learned of Troy's fall, he cruelly murdered Polydorus for ... the large fortune of gold that he owned which his father left ... ...

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... later, Zeus came back and destroyed Cronus, freeing all of Zeus's siblings; one of which was Hades. After a couple of long fights which Zeus led and won, he divided up the universe into different parts. When all was said and done, Hades was left with the short end of the stick. He got to be lord of the dead and god of the Underworld. That's enough to piss anybody off for ... into a barren land. When Persephone is returned to her mother, she is so full of happiness that she makes everything as beautiful as she can. This is only one myth concerning Hades, there are more. Another tale that...

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... Medea Both Jason and Medea are coming before me, the judge of the dead, at the same time. I have only one opening in the Elysian Fields and one opening in Tartarus. As judge of the dead, I must review both cases presented to me completely and thoroughly. This is a decision that must be made carefully because one of them is more deserving of Tartarus and I must discover which one it is. I will ... then again, Medea didn"t think so. After they were well on their way, she warned the heroes about Talus, the giant bronze man that lived on Crete. She prayed to the hounds of Hades to destroy h...

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... , believing he is above his own fate. As in Plato's brilliant "The Allegory of the Den," Oedipus is a prisoner of blindness, unwilling to believe his fellow prisoner, the prophet Teiresias, who has escaped bondage and seen the Truth. Teiresias tells Oedipus, "You are the godless defiler of this land. You are the slayer whom you seek, I say. I say you have forgot that you are joined with those most dear to ... you in deepest shame and do not see where you are in sin" (Sophocles 362-367). Oedipus is too proud to swallow the prophet's news, declaring, "Shall ... to committing suicide like ...

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... how. He knew, however, that he needed to have John there to help him save the children. In the opening of "Oedipus Rex," as king of his land, Oedipus accepts the challenge of saving the people of his country from a plague. He calls out to the people saying he is a great ruler and will cure them of this horrible plague. "I have come hither, Oedipus, known far and wide by name." (Pg ... is in this town and needs to be driven out for the plague to end. "What the God told me, I will declare . We had a leader, once, over this land, Called Laius- The man is dead; and now we are clearly bidden...

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... Oedipus, "You were better off dead than alive and blind." The use of irony in Oedipus Rex reveals much about the character of Oedipus. We see that Oedipus truly is the 'public' man and can only possess one sight, that of the 'public' world. This public persona proved to be the end of him when he decreed his own fate to the people of Thebes. The 'private' sight, the inward sight, which Teiresias accuses ... , this does not mean that the fate controls the actions of the man. The Prophesy must be looked at as being out of time, seeing the past, the present and the future all at once. Althou...

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... have the authority to change the laws" of the Gods that have been practiced before time. The Greeks religious believes and rituals are practiced unconditionally, regardless if the dead is a foe or friend. Creon does not have the power to change divine law, and place himself at a higher pedestal because he has the authority of the state. Creon shows great disrespect for the sanctuary of the Gods, and the laws that were put on the land of Thebes ... before Creon's time. Haemon boldly states, "Thou show'st no reverence, trampling on the laws the Gods hold sacred" ( ). He ... ...

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... Odysseus sails aimlessly until finding land finally " on the eighteenth day [when] some shadowy hills appeared" (Homer 25). Mirroring Odysseus in his moment of distress, the characters of "The Open Boat" embark aimlessly: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (Crane 355). To clarify, the characters in "The Open Boat" not knowing the color of the sky symbolizes that they were ... and states that "[a] draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps" (Poe 163). For purposes of clarification, Montressor intends to convey that the wine referred to as Medoc will cure Fortunado. Once F...

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