"Fate" Throughout Sophocles's Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus The classical Greek writers have given the world major literary themes. One such theme is "Fate". According to Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language the wo...

The story of Oedipus, one of the first examples of a literary tragic hero, is of a man plunged suddenly from prosperity and power to ruin and disrepute. We see him at the height and the depth of his worldly fortunes. Oedipus, whom in the first scene the Priest calls \"the first of men,\" to whom all...

Violence As It Is Portrayed In The Modern Media vs. The Ancient Greek MediaWhen 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 for the Greeks, civ...