Major Works Data Sheet Title: Oedipus Rex and Antigone Author: Sophocles Date of Publication: 430 B.C. and 441 B.C. Genre: drama/tragedy 1. Characterize the author’s style: Sophocles demonstrates great insight into human suffering. He assumes a pontifical role in an attempt to present a moral lesson to the general masses. 2. Cite a sample passage that exemplifies the style (provide page number): Chorus: “People of Thebes‚ my countrymen‚ look on Oedipus. He solved the famous riddle
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After being told by the oracle of Delphi that one day he kill his father and marry his mother‚ therefore he fled the city of Corinth (where he grew up). The play turns out to be ironic as he tries to run away from his fate but ends up setting the stage by killing his father(king Laius) on
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Q1: what are the factors that influence the demand for tourism? * Attitude depend on an individual’s perception of the world * Perceptions are mental impressions of‚ say‚ a destination or travel company and are determined by many factors‚ which include childhood‚ family‚ work experience‚ education‚ books‚ television programmes and films and promotional images. Perception involves the encoding of information by individuals and influences attitudes and behavior towards products but does not
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u09a1 Unit 9 Assignment Summary of Peer- Reviewed Article A NEW QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO MEASURE PERCEIVED WORK-RELATED STRESS IN ITALIAN EMPLOYEES By Cevenini‚ G.‚ Fratini‚ I.‚ & Gambassi‚ R. (2012) Cevenini‚ Fratini‚ and Gambassi (2012) goal was to give accurate quantification of what participants perceived occupational stress to be. Their study is a new quantitative approach of questionnaire data collection and analysis. They chose a statistical multivariate procedure. Their aim
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Sample 1 9.0 Project Scheduling Project scheduling is one of important part Software Development Project. This is because time is one of the aspects that should be concerned of when starting a project in order to meet the goal of project. IT Developer often failed to meet time constraints and choose to neglect time management to put more focus on development and other technical aspects. For this project we tried to apply project time management in order to ensure the tasks could be delivered
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Oedipus Paper The Theban plays taught ancient Greeks that there were four things that should be learned and lived by in order to be a good person and a good leader. The chorus outlined these things in the last lines of "Antigone" (pg 162). According to the chorus‚ Of happiness the crown And chiefest part Is wisdom‚ and to hold The gods in awe. This is the law That‚ seeing the stricken heart Of pride brought down‚ We learn when we are old. These lines simply put‚ state that wisdom is good
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beauty‚ goodness‚ and‚ especially‚ traits of good character such as courage (McGraw-Hill‚ pg.37‚ 2008) . He believed that power was not attained through wealth or physical strength but rather it was achieved through discussion or debate. The Delphi Oracle is said to have pronounced Socrates the wisest of people. To Socrates this meant he was aware of his own ignorance not that he was the wisest man in the world. Socrates made many enemies after this because he set out to find a man wiser than
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Greek mythology can be defined as a religion‚ originating in ancient Greece‚ about surrounding myths and legends about Gods‚ Goddesses and Heroes and events. Greek mythology may have originated because many people at the time need to explain ordinary events like natural disasters. Many scholars have written about Gods who are connected to my hero Herakles like the Goddess Athena and the God Zeus. One reason why the Greeks prayed to Heracles after his untimely death is because he was the unofficial
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be conversing with would eventually realise that they were ignorant or oblivious to the true idea of Goodness. Through dialectic Socrates longed for stability in universal truths‚ through the study of the nature of the human psyche. The Oracle at Delphi was purported to have said that there is no one wiser than Socrates. Socrates took this to mean that he is wise because he recognizes his own ignorance. What he knows is that he knows nothing. One of his many aims in life was to achieve certainty;
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in a murder trial against whom? a. His father b. A domestic servant c. His brother d. Meletus ____a______ 2. Who indicated to Chaerephon that Socrates was the wisest of men? a. Socrates himself b. The Oracle of Delphi c. Sophocles d. Tiresias‚ the blind soothsayer ______b____ 3. In the Apology‚ Socrates mentions the play “The Clouds” by what playwrite? a. Aristophanes b. Sophocles c. Homer d. Plato ___a_______ 4. In the
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