"In the time of Greatness"
Birth Date. William Shakespeare, surely the world's most performed and admired playwright, was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London. According to the records of Stratford's Holy Trinity Church, he was baptized on April 26. Since it wa....
Ancient Greece
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION The Ancient Greek civilization was located on today’s Greek land, Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, South Italy, and Sicily. It is surrounded by mountains and in the north by water. The Ionian and the Aegean seas, together with natural islands and bays, gave the Greeks the op....
ancient rome- battle of actium
The Battle of Actium was a naval battle of the Roman Civil War between Mark Antony and Octavian . It was fought on September 2, 31 BC, near the Roman colony of Actium in Greece (near the modern-day city of Preveza), on the Ionian Sea. Octavian's fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Anton....
Antony's downfall
As the title suggests, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra revolves around the extraordinary relationship between two unique individuals, one a Roman general and the other an Egyptian queen. While Antony and Cleopatra focuses on a fiery love affair, Shakespeare makes it apparent that there is a much ....
Augustus, the First and the Greatest
Augustus, or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, his official name, is the first of the line of roman emperors. Augustus was born on September 23, 63 B.C.E. in the capital of Italy, Rome. Augustus got his political roots from his father Gaius Octavius who was the governor of Macedonia. His mother was At....
bernard shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music a....
Caesar Augustus
Octavian Augustus (63 B.C.-14 AD) is known as the first, and one of the greatest, Roman Emperors ever. Octavian enabled the long, peaceful time of the Pax Romana by changing Rome from a fragile, crumbling republican government to a mighty empire. Octavians government was strong enough to withstand....
Cleopatra Biography
Cleopatra was a woman of great skill, intellect, and wit. Through these character traits, Cleopatra was able to become a very effective and powerful leader of Ancient Egypt, but not many know the whole story of Cleopatra's life. Often distorted through Hollywood, Cleopatra is sought out by moviegoer....
Fragility of power
Fragility of power
Through the years man has been partly defined by the nature to crave power! Everybody possesses power in some form or another, how it is represented depends on who possesses it. Power is complex, it can involving various dynamics and can be represented everywhere in many ways.
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Julius Ceaser
Everyone knows of Julius Caesar and about his assassination, but do they know who he really was and what he did for history? Julius Caesar made incredible contributions to his country and was well liked. He once said I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. J....
Myth in Homer by Lowell Edmunds
In the beginning of his article, Lowell Edmunds spends a brief amount of time "establishing the category of myth" or in other words, defining myth. He deems this a necessary start to a chapter written on a subject that had previously been held in no small amount of uncertainty. He traces t....
sarah bernhardt
Fizdale, Robert and Gold, Arthur. The Devine Sarah, A Life of Sarah Bernhardt (New York: Knopf, 1991)
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was one of the stages most admired actresses. She was born in Paris, France where she became a star and later traveled the world touring. Bernhardt didn....
Symbology in Ethan Frome
In much the same way as Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton sets her themes on isolation, despair, hopelessness, and bad relationships. She does this with a poetic flair that belies her work in that genre. Winter is used to show the bleaness and the unforgiving nature of the elements. For example, "H....
The Dead Sea and Desalination
The rejoin I choose for the project is the Dead Sea. It fascinates me to know that there is a huge body of water on earth that contains no living marine life other than a few different kinds of microbes. The Dead Seas main source of feed water is the Jordan River. The lake has no outlet other tha....
The Role Of Women in Ancient Nubia
Throughout time there have been many successful empires in the world; all which have a great legacy. Some of their legacies are taught in classrooms today. However, few of these talked about empires are that of the innovative Africans. Even fewer of these lessons are taught about the passionate Afri....
To what extent is closure achieved with the deaths of the principal characters in tragedy?
To what extent is closure achieved with the death(s) of the principal characters in tragedy? Discuss with reference to two of the plays studied.
This essay will look closely at the concept of closure within Shakespearean tragedy. The two plays which will be analysed are the plays Anthony and Cl....
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