enter the afterlife‚ a well functioning body was necessary. Thus‚ to protect their bodies and reach the afterlife‚ a set of burial customs needed to be followed. These rituals included mummification‚ spells‚ and the burial with certain goods needed in the afterlife. These rituals became the responsibility of the family to carry out with the assistance of priests. The burial process developed and changed over time‚ however the main elements of preparation of the body‚ the magical rituals‚ and the
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was written‚ but because of the citizenship laws enacted in through the Athenian state‚ the manner in which females were portrayed publicly began to change. David K. Roselli undoubtedly proves this point using historically documented difference in burial mounds as well as art and literature during the time Antigone was written. For example‚ the “Periclean citizenship law of 451 B.C which stated those not born from two citizens should not share in the Polis.” This led Athenian families to display female
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people’s minds on how they see and think of their family by trying to do the right thing by the God’s and have a burial for her brother Polyneices like everyone at that point in history should have been. Sophocles tries to persuade the readers by making the prologue of the play the conversation between the two sisters by showing us that Antigone is doing the right thing by wanting the burial to take place and he always shows how Ismene is a perfect example of the role and attitude of many of the women
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Odysseus guest gifts and transportation. Another practice of ancient Greek culture is the requirement of a proper burial for the dead‚ so that their soul may rest peacefully. In the Iliad‚ Patroclus burial was devoted to an entire chapter which a great celebration and games in his honor. However‚ when Achilles kills Hector‚ he refuses to give Hectors body back to his father for a proper burial and instead proceeded to drag his body across the battlefield back to the Greeks camp. It wasn’t until Hectors
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Religion of the Beothuk The Beothuk were a small group of aboriginals who lived in Newfoundland during the time of the European contact during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Beothuk culture formed around 1500 ACE. The ancestors of the Beothuk had three earlier cultural phases that migrated from Labrador‚ each lasting around 500 years‚ therefore beginning in 1ACE. Current DNA suggests that the Beothuk linked to the same ansestors as the Mi’kmaq‚ either through mixing of the people or
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Literary Analysis: The Ultimate Choice In life‚ there are many choices that everyone must make many times each day. Whether or not it is ever the right choice always depends‚ but there is always a choice in everything. In the popular play‚ Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare‚ The main character‚ Hamlet‚ as well as many others face a choice that no one would like to face; “to be or not to be”. The ultimate choice between living‚ or taking their own life‚ and the imagery
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Antigone’s brother‚ Polyneices‚ body to be left untouched (improper burial) and left to rot because of his rebellion against the city. Kreons morals are all wrong in making this law. As a newly crowned king‚ as of any in power wants to make known that they are not a push over. So it seems in being a new king‚ Kreon had to set a law and carry it out in order for people to respect and fear him. Kreon is not wrong for making the improper burial a law‚ but his moral value here does not fit the tradition or
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brother. Ismene is Antigone’s foil‚ with Ismene believing that they as women should not defy Creon’s orders. Eurydice is completely passive and only serves the story with her death. Tiresias warns Creon of what will happen if he continues to prohibit burial of Polyneices‚ yet Creon stays true to his word‚ only amplifying the work of the Fates. Eurydice is completely passive and only serves the story with her death. Compare and contrast the characters of Oedipus and Antigone. How are they similar?
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Antigone‚ by Sophocles and‚ Lysistrata by Aristophanes are both pieces of art studied and fascinated within the time frame they were made and still are to this day. The tragedy‚ Antigone‚ and the comedy‚ Lysistrata‚ both encompass women who go against their customs and laws; but what sets these two so widely apart‚ is the outcome in which each women face in result of their actions. Antigone is told and begins with the assumption that readers know the background and characters within it‚ this is
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Creon (temporarily the king of Thebes). Creon’s law is put in place when he prohibits the burial of Polyneices‚ Antigones brother of flesh and blood‚ and if anyone attempts to bury him‚ the sentence for disobeying the king will be death. Antigone sees how wrong Creon is and “appeals not only to the bond of kindred blood but also to the unwritten law‚ sanctioned by the gods‚ that the dead must be given proper burial- a religious principle” (Fagles 40). On the other hand‚ Creon believes that the gods and
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