CharactersHektorChorus of Trojan Elders/advisers to King PriamKing PriamAeneasParisAndromacheHelenCharacter DescriptionsHektor - a prince of the great city of Troy. He is the son of King Priam and Queen Hecabe, brother of Paris, husband of Adromache. He is the greatest warrior on the Trojan side d...

A) Moira is an ancient Greek word for a predetermined fate. It's meaning points out that everything does not depend on free will. There are certain things in life that one cannot control. Moira plays a central role in Sophocles' Oedipus because the play's conflict is between fate a...

Table of Contents Pg 2. Garden of Eden & Pandora's Box Pg 3. Cain and Abel & Odysseus and the Trojan Horse Pg 4. Noah and the Flood & Pygmalion and Galatea Pg 5. The tower of Babel & Daphne and the Laurel Wreath Pg 6. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah & Echo and Narcissus ...

In the Beginning, there was Man. In time, Man grew bored, so he created a work of fiction (not a woman, as the popular story goes). He read the fiction, and found it good and entertaining. He decided to create more, found it good, and so forth and so on. After He created this first work of fict...

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...

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, soliloquize...

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...

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...