Greek mythology Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 6

Protagonists, Oedipus of Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” and Odysseus of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” endure various hardships and exhibit certain qualities that allow us to classify these men as heroes. Oedipus is the of a tragedy and Odysseus of an epic. Despite being different genres and having drastically different outcomes, both share a plethora of similarities….

Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy which tells the tale of King Oedipus, a man who sets out to find King Laius’ killer and ends up finding out more about who he is and what he has done. He finds that all along it was he who had killed King Laius, who turns out to…

The word ‘hero’ comes from a Greek root to mean protect and serve. Often a hero is connected with self-sacrifice, transcending ego. Webster dictionary defines a hero as a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities, a person who is greatly admired, the chief male character in a story, play,…

Oedipus the King is an excellent example of Aristotle’s theory of tragedy. The play contains an ideal tragic plot that consists of paripeteia, anagnorisis and catastrophe. This play is also distinguished for having the ideal tragic character that suffers from happiness to misery due to hamartia and the play combines compassion and fear that produces…

Humans have since the beginning of time made sense of our society by telling stories and conjuring up an archetype. One of the greatest 20th century myth explorers, Joseph Campbell said that myths are a collection of dreams and these myths from our imagination are some of the most powerful creations of world culture. These…

Throughout the story Oedipus the King imagery is employed frequently in regard to lightness and darkness. When Oedipus sets out to find the killer of Laius, acting heroically to save the kingdom he discovers much more than he ever would have wished for. While interrogating the citizens of Thebes he comes across Tiresias, a blind…

Socrates’s philosophy of wisdom was rooted heavily upon the realization that all humans are ignorant: the defense he used at his own trial was that he himself was the wisest man in Athens simply because he was adequately self-aware enough to recognize his own ignorance, or lack of knowledge. In Sophocles’s play, Oedipus’s hamartia, a…

Blindness can refer to a literal and explicit meaning which both lead to the same definition, without vision. It limits the understanding of many by clouding their thoughts and leads to the idea of only seeing the tip of an iceberg, rather than what’s underneath the surface. In Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, the main…

Through the whims and wills of the Gods, humans play a preconceived part in the story of life, and our every deed simply a line in the play. This idea that the span of a person’s life is nothing but an allotment of misery and suffering doomed upon oneself can be held as a precept…

One of the most interesting and tragic ideas about reading Oedipus by Sophocles is that we know what Oedipus does not. We know that he killed his father. The idea of fate, or fulfilling a prophecy is complicated in this story. Oedipus, has no control of this story line, and could no way have changed…