Violence As It Is Portrayed In The Modern Media vs. The Ancient Greek Media When one thinks of ancient Greece, the word that comes to mind is "civilized". Ancient Greece is considered to be the birthplace of Western Civilization, and therefore of our modern society. If it wasn't fo...

Two different translations of Oedipus the King Sophocles was one of the most famous Greek playwrights of his time, and he is still well known by contemporary society. Many people today and in the past few thousand years have studied Sophocles and his works, trying to understand and analyze them. S...