Agamemnon When Agamemnon first comes‚ he is talking about long time being away from home and final come back. He says he is just a mortal man. He does not want that people honor him for victory- but God. He is just human and God the one who has to be praised and honored. After discussion with Clytemnestra Agamemnon changes. He becomes unreasonable and arrogant. He changes his mind. We can see that he gets influence of other people very easy. Agamemnon feels that he is the one who deserves to be honored
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imprisoned in the middle of two moral obligations. Each of these obligations is absolute but in utter opposition with one another. Agamemnon is an innocent man forced by the gods into making a morally problematic decision. Agamemnon arrives late in Aeschylus’ play; until his arrival with Cassandra‚ most of the play deals with other characters anticipating his appearance. The reader gathers from the Watchman’s prologue a feeling of somberness: “dear gods‚ set me free from all this pain” (pg. 102). Once
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The ancient Greeks were fond believers of Fate. Fate‚ defined according to Webster’s‚ is "the principle or determining cause or will by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as the do." The Greeks take on Fate was slightly modified. They believed that the gods determined Fate: " fate‚ to which in a mysterious way the gods themselves were subject‚ was an impersonal force decreeing ultimate things only‚ and unconcerned with day by day affairs." It was
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Why did the Greeks win the battle of marathon? The Athenians won the battle of Marathon because of skilled leadership from Miltiades‚ the Athenian and Plataean hoplites‚ good terrain‚ and morale. Miltiades was the commander during the Battle of Marathon. He had spent time in the Chersonese which gave him possible Persian tactics. Miltiades decided that because the Persian cavalry was so large in numbers the Athenians would spread out and make the center the weakest part with the wings the strongest
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Similarities in the failures of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece and the Sicilian Expedition On paper‚ Xerxes and the Persians‚ along with Alcibiades and his Athenians‚ would be overwhelmingly favored to win over Greece and Sicily. However‚ although both the Athenians and Persians not only far outnumbered their opponents in manpower‚ weaponry‚ and utilities‚ they still shockingly were both beaten and sent back to their homelands. The reasons for why two superpowers such as these would fall to a cluster
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In ancient Greek time it was thought that the gods had decided everyones fate a path of how to live their lives and that they fitted everything together like a puzzle and that if someone defied the way of things were suppose to turn out it would disturbed the whole puzzle. So Greeks felt that someone who committed an act of hubris messed up the way everyone’s life should go so these people in turn were exiled or cursed. In most Greek tragedies there is an act of hubris towards the gods‚ this bends
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“How does Sophocles use various literary devices (like dramatic irony‚ characterization‚ tone‚ etc.) to explore the theme of man’s journey of self-discovery? Cite examples from Oedipus and one other piece we have read in class or own experience.” We must have gone through searches of identities in our lives. At that time‚ we might be confused by how other saw us and how we saw ourselves. Some would start reject themselves‚ and others would learn to accept. In “Oedipus the King”‚ the author Sophocles
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6.42 When Alexander was going towards Nysa‚ the people of Nysa sent out men: ‘o king‚ the people of Nysa want to remain free. Therefore save the independence of the people because of Dionysus. For the god was the founder of Nysa. For when he took victory over the Indians‚ he founded Nysa in order to leave a monument of the victory for future generations. In the same way you yourself also founded both the farthest Alexandria and another Alexandria in the land of the Egyptians‚ and many others: you
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“Tragic hero is the man who on the one hand is not pre-eminent in virtue and justice‚ and yet on the other hand does not fall into misfortune through vice or depravity‚ but falls because of some mistake; one among the number of the highly renowned and prosperous.” Aristotle Justice is presented in different forms by authors throughout history. The justice in the Ancient Greek writing is often swift and harsh‚ almost direct. The Bible stories‚ in contrast‚ are more of an indirect punishment on
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When dwelling upon the main developments of the theatre‚ one turns to look at the origins of its birth‚ therefore focusing upon the Ancient Greeks. A lot of the theatre in which is established today comes from the activities of Greek Worship. The Greeks worshipped their Gods‚ including ‘the worship of Dionysus; the God of fertility and wine.’ (Gascoinge; History of Theatre‚ 2001 ongoing.) The Greeks worshipped their Gods through the use of sculpting‚ painting‚ music and literature‚ alongside this
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