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Question: For what purposes does Virgil use the supernatural in Book 3 of the Aeneid?
Answer: In book 3 Virgil uses the supernatural influence plays a prominent role...
- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classics
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: 60%
- Words: 1320
- Date submitted: May 05, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1515
Question: To what extent does Aristophanes attempt to convey a serious political message to his audience in The Frogs?
Answer: As Aeschylus says in the play Frogs, “Schoolboys have a master to...
- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classics
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: 60%
- Words: 950
- Date submitted: May 04, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1494
Question: How is Medea portrayed in this passage? How consistent is this with her portrayal elsewhere in the play?
(The play Medea play written by Euripides - first produced 431 BCE)
Answer: Firstly we see in this passage Medea’s hatred for Jason ‘I loathe...
- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classical Literature
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 859
- Date submitted: September 29, 2014
- Date written: March, 2014
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 6087
Question: Explain the symbolism within Plato’s allegory of the cave and how it justifies Plato’s point that ‘philosophers should be kings’. (30 Marks)
Answer: In this essay I will be explaining the symbolism of the cave...
- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classics
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 752
- Date submitted: September 30, 2013
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 5065
Question: “In Oedipus Tyranus, Oedipus is destroyed by his own flawed character.” Assess this statement.
Answer: To assess the accuracy of this claim, it is first necessary to...
- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classics
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1337
- Date submitted: July 28, 2009
- Date written: December, 2002
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1964
Question: Comment on the authors approach to historical writing as demonstrated by Thucydides (Thucydides, ‘History of the Peloponnesian War’, Book 6, chapter 15 (pp.418-19) and analyse the historical problems raised in this passage.
Answer: Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War describes many great events and the...
- Subject: Classics
- Course: Classics
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1596
- Date submitted: May 05, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1514
