Essays on Ancient Greece

Life is a sequence of chained experience, bad and good, yet they all should be used for our favor. In the text “Daedalus” by Thomas Bullfinch should be a great example and source of lessons and inspiration about how to succeed in life as a...

In his poem, “Icarus”, Edward Field creatively expresses the myth of “Icarus and Daedalus” in a modern context, detailing Icarus’ life after he was believed to have drowned. Feeling that he has fallen from greatness to being average, Icarus continuously tries to fix his wings...

Greek mythology is one of the most popular field of study. Many works of artists and poets have been inspired by Greek myth. The myth of Daedalus and Icarus is one of the most studied Greek myth in English literature and many poets have reflected...

Icarus is just a boy whos ignorance gets in the way of his own judgement leading to his own self-destruction. Ovid’s “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” is the perfect reminder of how easy and quick people can rise, but also how fast consequences can...

In the poem “Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing”, Margaret Atwood expresses ideas that are unique and unusual in terms of feminism. The work in the style of a monologue, and the narrator herself is the personification of female beauty, Helen of Troy. Helen is...

Towards the end of the second millennium before Christ, the mass dislocations of people in the east Mediterranean destabilized the balance of strong states; the invasions from the northwest of the civilized Mycenaean and Hittite empires undermined the established orders, which had led to several...

The Great Age of Greece is home to so many of the things in which we value of the Greeks, where these thoughts were created and carried forward. Yet the Peloponnesian war managed to destroy the newfound hope in human capacities and in the developments...

Earth rooted architecture are buildings that display with extraordinary power the Earth and its representation show to the world. The Parthenon, displays the conceptualization of earth rooted architecture by vegetative supply and fruitfulness, most recommend or is a representation of protection. Moreso, since the fullness...

It is interesting how mythical stories always have an interesting beginning to end, particularly this story that we are talking about is an about Aeneid and it would have never existed if it wasn’t for Virgil, the poet, he was famous for 3 poems especially...

The film 300 retells the story of the battle of Thermopylae while also shining light on the societal and governmental structures that drove Sparta’s city-state forward. Ancient Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in Greece. Their influence and might was widely renowned as...