The Women of Greece: A Transition from Ancient Power to Classical Subservience Women's conquest for political and social freedom is a battle that has gone on for centuries. Perhaps the breaking point in women's liberation was the Women's Movement of the 1900's, which encouraged women a...

According to our understanding of Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman created by the gods and given to the humans. According to various versions of the myth she was a true gift to them, or a trap, or even a punishment for accepting forbidden fire. One way or another, she was gift...

Shakespeare's romance The Tempest along with many other works of that time help represent the arts and drama which were large parts of the Elizabethan Renaissance. Queen Elizabeth I made many of changes and influenced all England and also much of the world during her reign. She was Queen of En...

Section 1: From the first line to Clytaemestra's: "Of all good things to wish this is my dearest choice" Summary: The play opens on Agamemnon's palace in Argos. The time is just minutes before the fall of Troy. It is night. A lonely watchman on the roof of the palace, under the starry sky, solilo...

Tragedy was performed in Athens at the annual festival of Dionysus, the Great, or the City, Dionysia in late March. Competition was held on three successive mornings of the festival. Three tragic poets, who had been selected earlier in the year, each presented a tetralogy, consisting of three traged...

For as long as I can remember, growing up in my house, my father was the one who wore the pants in the family. It was a very patriarchal household. He was the breadwinner, he could fix anything broken, and he swore he knew everything, and for those reasons, he was in charge. My mother, on the oth...

Present in most epics, dreams are used by Homer and Virgil in the Iliad, Odyssey, and the Aeneid to catalyze action in the plot. These epic dreams serve a vital purpose to the bard in his formulation of the epic and to the audience in their understanding of the epic. Inspired by gods, formulated i...