Jason's life was even saved by Medea when they were getting the Golden Fleece as it states, "I saved your life, and every Greek knows I saved it, who was a shipmate of yours aboard the Argo."... (p.26) Medea feels very strongly about making sure that Jason becomes unhappy and will do anything to make sure that this happens, even if it involves the death of her two children. ... No matter what you think, expect the unexpected because you never know when something will go wrong. ... Medea would not be a good example of this at all for she had enormous plans for revenge and how she was go...

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Do you know who your parents are?" (413) Teiresias began to tell Oedipus who he really was when he said, "And the multitude of other evils establishing a grim equality between you and your children, you know nothing." (423) Oedipus was both father and brother of his children. ... She said to him, "O Oedipus, God help you! God keep you from the knowledge of who you are." (1067) Oedipus was too proud to stop searching. ... He asked the shepherd if he gave him away when he was a baby. ...

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The God's laws say that if you don't receive a burial, then you go to hell. ... In the ancient Greek time, they believe that if you don't get a proper burial, then the God's send you to hell. ... He thinks Ismene should be charged because she knows about what her sister had planned to do, but kept it to herself. He makes the decision because he thinks that anyone that withholds information like she does, should be punished equally. ... From the prophecy, he now knows that if he doesn't do anything that his country will ruin. ...

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You were controlled by your owners and they decided how you would spend your day. No matter how hard you tried to change where you were or what you were doing, slavery was your lifestyle. ... She knows what Oedipus did to the King, she knows that Oedipus is her first son, she knows that she married the boy with the pinned up ankles that she left to die in the mountains. ... As well as "My god, my god - what have you planned to do to me" (p. 202)? ... If anything those who punished people because of their fate should be the ones receiving the punishment, not giving. ...

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She feels that if she cannot be happy then no one will. ... She wants to know what has him so angered. ... Laius and Jocasta were told that they should not have children, for if they do the child will murder his father and wed his mother. ... Stop- in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! ... too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! ...

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For example, the God Apollo tells Oedipus, "You are fated to couple with your mother, you will bring a breed of children into the light no man can bear to see-you will kills your father, the one who gave you life!" ... He does not second-guess what fate has in store for his city and knows nothing can be done about it. ... Tiresia warns, " you and your loved ones live together in infamy, you cannot see how far you've gone in guilt." ... So far, Sophocles has shown how man is free to choose and do as he pleases, but cannot escape his own fate. ... Here, Oedipus says that he is a free wille...

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However, we still can be happy if we ignore this fact. ... Once Oedipus learns of the prophesy that he ill kill his father and marry his mother, he is determined to do everything inn his power to avoid it. ... His visit to Tiresias makes him aware that perhaps he should start to dig deeper into the riddle of Laius's death, even if it means going against his warnings. ... His impulsiveness causes him to ignore the warnings he gets from Tiresias and Jocasta as we can see when she says " In God's name - if you want to live, this Must not go on ." ... In conclusion, Oedipus's f...

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She was at a time to be married to Zeus, but because it was told that Thetis would bare a son greater than his father, Zeus decided to marry someone else. ... "I"m coming to your hut and taking Briseis, your own beautiful prize, so that you will see just how much stronger I am than you, and the next person will wince at the thought of opposing me as an equal (Homer 194)," is what Agamemnon said to Achilles after he was told that he had to give Chryseis back to her father. ... Not because he was worried about his status and how people would view it, or how he should give Agamemnon his respect f...

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In the play, Antigone, Creon strikes back against Antigone after she breaks a law. ... From Creon's actions we can tell that he believes in human law above all other kinds of laws; if you disobey these laws, there are consequences to the action. ... Even though they belong to the country, all Iraqi people should not have to die because of a decision made by a select few who rule over them. ... Aeneas and Turnus had already been engaged in war over who should marry the King"s daughter. ... If it were not to do this, they would not be doing their job and in Socrates" eyes that is unjust...

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He feels he must boast in front of his wife, the one person who should not need convincing of his greatness. ... Any good Greek should know the dangers of hubris, but Oedipus is a bit of a braggart: "And justly you will see in me an ally, a champion of my country and the God" (Oedipus Rex, 135-136). ... At the end of the book, Creon takes over, but the Greek audience, who is familiar with the story in Sophocles's trilogy, knows that he too will become arrogant and corrupt. ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... She begs for one...

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They know that the greatest honors will be bestowed upon the greatest warriors, not one of them. ... But no matter what he does or how much reverence he shows the gods, Hector will not triumph. ... Further, Hector tells Paris "better had you never been born, or killed unwedded it would be far better than to have you with us to our shame, for others to sneer at. " (3:40-42). ... The reason Aphrodite favors Paris is because he gave her an apple meant "for the fairest. " Hera, Athena and Aphrodite all believed they were the fairest and Paris was tasked with deciding who the winner should be...

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