supplication‚ with boughs and garlands"(Fitts/Fitzgerald)? In this version‚ he makes the Theban citizens look as if they have dragged themselves to his palace with garlands to embrace him with. Oedipus ’s self-centered nature is portrayed well through the diction of Fitts/Fitzgerald. Further‚ when Oedipus asks for reason in their coming‚ both translations provide a unique way of questioning. When Oedipus questions the Thebans why they have come to the altar steps in the Berowitz/Brunner translation‚ he
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Europe and Asia. He conquered the Thebans while holding off a rebellion. He conquered the Egyptians peacefully. He conquered Persia and India brilliantly also. There is no doubt that Alexander was great. He is called‚ Alexander “The Great”. The first country that Alexander conquered was the Thebans. He fought against a rebellion at the same time while doing this. He ended the rebellion in his own land and went on to defeat the Thebans. He killed about 6‚000 Thebans in one of the battles. But Alexander
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Key: Sources for the period THE SPARTAN HEGEMONY (404BC TO 371BC) Sparta’s role at the end of the Peloponnesian war: Sparta had promised Persia the Ionian cities for its help in defeating Athens. This was a traitorous bargain‚ which subjected Ionian Greeks to Persian rule‚ and negated the victories of the Persian wars Sparta suppressed democracies within the Greek city-states and replaced these with oligarchies. This was done with force Lysander‚ a Spartan‚ was the hero of the Peloponnesian war
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Rex Authors often use blindness both metaphorically and literally to describe their characters. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles begins the play with literally blind Thebans suffering from a plague that their metaphorically blind king has brought upon them. Oedipus‚ being the king‚ is trying to help his blind Thebans. In doing this‚ he blindly curses the murderer of the late King Laius for bringing this plague‚ not knowing that the murderer is himself. When Sophocles introduces the theme
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After reading and analyzing Sophocles’ ancient work during freshman year of both high school and college‚ it is apparent that Oedipus The King is the second work in a trilogy that focuses on a Theban ruler named Oedipus‚ his hamartia‚ and his tragic fall from power. Thebes is ridden with plagues and is terribly cursed by the gods due to the death of the former king‚ Laius (Yeckley). The use of symbols can be found throughout the entirety of Sophocles’ Oedipus The King. Symbolism is when an author
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The Spartan troops of only 300 men at arms were augmented by troops sent by several other city-states who seemed determined to engage the Persian forces‚ but Leonidas had picked up and accompanied the delegation of troops from Thebes‚ because the Thebans had already hinted that they might desert the Greek alliance and unite themselves with the Persians. In order to shore up the flagging hopes of their allies‚ therefore‚ the Spartan advance guard made camp in a narrow mountain pass at a place now made
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possesses intelligence‚ the gift of eloquence‚ he and no one else‚ and character too…such men‚ I tell you‚ spread them open—you will find them empty” (791-794). He told his father he can’t challenge the law of the Gods and the Thebans just to assert dominance. I did no wrong‚ as any Theban. I knew the risk of dying and I was willing to make the sacrifice so my brother’s soul would rest in piece. Choosing to be loyal to my brother was an easy decision to make because the Gods have told us to be loyal to our
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human compassion‚ and Dionysus in Euripides’ The Bacchae is no exception. Accompanied by his followers‚ liberated‚ frenzied women known as the Maenads or Bacchae‚ Dionysus comes to Thebes‚ Greece from Asia‚ as a new god. They are rejected by the Thebans and the god plans to retaliate. “...Here I plead the cause of my own mother‚ Semele‚ appearing as a god to mortal men‚ the one she bore to Zeus. Now Cadmus‚ the old king‚ has just transferred his power‚ his royal authority‚ to Pentheus‚ his daughter’s
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Greece after the Peloponnesian War: • Nature and impact of the Spartan hegemony; role and significance of Lysander‚ Agesilaus - Sparta won the Peloponnesian War. The war had ruined many states economically and spiritually. A true leader was needed. Thucydides believed Sparta would unite Greece and lead through goodwill. However‚ during the war Sparta had medised and sold the Ionian states to the Persians. Sparta could hardly claim to be the ‘liberator of the Greeks’. - Sparta had however earned
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civilized life without it-the theater.”(Knox 13) Sophocles was the most accomplished playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. The first of the three Theban plays to be written was Antigone which was believed to have been written around 441 B.C.‚ Secondly Oedipus the King around 430 b.c.‚ and lastly Oedipus at Colonus sometime near the end of Sophocles’ life in 406–405 b.c. However in chronological order
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