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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Sophocles"”.
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Choral Authoritativeness in Sophocles
… context of the chorus’s utterances in three of Sophocles’ seven extant tragedies. I have chosen the Philoctetes, the Antigone, and the Electra because, in each, the chorus is used in a different way. Altogether, my analysis shows how Sophocles constantly experiments with the use of the choral …
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A study of Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus
… of this thesis to study the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles. Since there is a real need for an investigation of the Coloneus as a work of art and not as a philosophical treatise or a theological tract, the limitations of my study are strictly defined. I shall direct my attention to the Coloneus, …
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The Use of Gnomes in Sophocles' Poetry
U of I Only
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An amazon in Athens : gendered correlation and political association in Sophocles’ "Trachiniae"
… thesis seeks to explore the gendered politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae. In particular, in the first chapter, I suggest that Deianeira’s Amazonian prehistory introduces from the outset a paradoxical and unstable symbol of similarity and difference that creates tension between masculinity and …
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"Nothing that is not Zeus" the unknowability of the Gods and the limits of human knowledge in Sophoclean tragedy
… Diller ("Gottliches und menschliches Wissen bei Sophocles", Kiel 1950) - the ways in which the epistemological chasm between Man and God in Sophoclean tragedy becomes manifest through a 'collision' between the incompleteness and limitedness of human knowledge on the one hand and the transcendence …
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Antigone : a creative venture
… of Antigone; the texts in question were those of Sophocles and Anouilh; and (2) to determine and illustrate the same influence of time, culture, and production situation upon the means of producing Lewis Galantiere's adaptation of Anouilh's Antigone at the University of the Pacific Play box in the …
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Selected Non-Indianist Works of Charles Sanford Skilton: The Witch's Daughter - A Cantata for Soprano and Baritone Soli, Chorus and Orchestra (1918) and Electra - Music of the Electra of Sophocles, Composed for Women's Chorus and Orchestra (1920)
… (1918), and Electra - Music of the Electra of Sophocles, composed for Women's Chorus and Orchestra (1920). These works together shed light on attributes of Skilton's compositional style and his relation to composers of the same period.
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A New Language for Heroes: Odysseus, Ajax, and Sophistic Language in Attic Tragedy
… Ajax are reinterpreted for the tragic stage by Sophocles and Euripides, with particular emphasis on the presence of marked sophistic modes and values of speech. My thesis begins with an overview of the sophistic movement and a discussion of the philosophical and stylistic tenets of sophism. …
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Orestes and Redemption in Two Different Ages
… playwrights. The Orestes plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were contrasted with the similar plays of Hofmannstahl, Jeffers, O'Neill, Giraudoux, Eliot, and Sartre. The Greek tragedians appear to terminate Orestes' retribution for inherited evil and a just crime by an actual, total, …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… Ishiguro, George R. R. Martin, J.K. Rowling and Sophocles.
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The house of Atreus in ancient Greece
… first presented about 458 B.C.; Electra by Sophocles; probably presented first sometime before 413 B.C.; and Electra by Euripides, first presented in 413 B.C. SInce the purpose of the study was to compare ideas and points of view expressed by the three great tragic dramatists of Greece, no …
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ΠΗΛΙΝΕΣ ΜΗΤΡΕΣ ΑΓΓΕΙΩΝ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΕΛΛΑ. ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΚΕΡΑΜΙΚΗΣ
… RELATED TO ABSTRACTS OF THE WORKS OF EURIPIDES, SOPHOCLES ETC. THE MOULD WORKSHOP PRODUCED VARIOUS DIFFERENT KINDS OF PRODUCTS. THE MOULDS WERE MADE AND DECORATED BY FOUR ARTISANS. THE SAME WORKSHOP MADE THE STAMPS, TURNED THE VASES ON THE WHEEL, SAW THEM THROUGH THE KILNS AND FINALLY DISPOSED …
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'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
… on 20th Century world literature to that of Sophocles: ‘No son más de 300 páginas, pero son casi tantas y creo tan perdurables como las que conocemos de Sófocles’ and, completing this oftrepeated triumvirate of recommendations, Jorge Luis Borges has referred to Pedro Páramo as: ‘una de las …
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Literary Perceptions of Leadership
… The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, and Sophocles' Antigone. The Medieval Period: Beowulf and Le Mort D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. The Renaissance Period: Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Henry V. The Modern Period: Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead …
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Factors associated with loss to follow-up after occupational HIV exposure among health care workers attending the Groote Schuur Hospital Occupational Health Clinic
Background There is limited data on factors associated with loss to follow-up (LTFU) of health care workers (HCWs) following occupational exposure to HIV, and most studies were conducted in an era when poorly tolerated antiretrovirals (ART) like zidovudine were used. Methods A retrospective cohort …
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A plan for remodeling an industrial power plant
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1930.
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
… include Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, and Euripides’ Phoenissae and Suppliant Women. I identify various passages throughout the epic that parallel scenes from these tragedies, not only through their more overt similarities …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… in the battle of Salamis. Finally, I address Sophocles’ Ajax as a vehicle to examine the shift in Athens’ identity from Greek defender in the Persian Invasions to imperial aggressor in the Peloponnesian War. I argue that the Ajax alludes to Aeschylus’ Persians as a way to integrate Athens’ …
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Adapting to Resist: Epistemic Resistance in Twenty-First Century Antigones
My thesis explores how Sophocles′ *Antigone* is reworked in Britain, Ireland, and Turkey in the 21<sup>st</sup> century to represent and enact political resistance. My contention is that *Antigone* constitutes a form of epistemic resistance in relation to current political issues, such as …
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