Dawe says "these are Solomon's children", alluding directly to this passage from the Bible, and immediately establishing the religious implications of this poem stating that they are "righteous souls, tried in the furnace of the world's derision", a parallel to the line "as gold in the furnace he hath tried them", but referring to those people in society who ridicule and mock the fans for their dedication and belief in their team. ... Daedalus and Icarus were still trapped on the island and could not get away by walking, and the king's ships guarded the sea. ... The next morning...

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Since the Beginning of time men have searched for answers for things he could not understand or explain, in his Quest for answers he thought that there was a Greater force or being who controls or looks over the world and everything in it. ... The gods received credit and praise for things such as rain showers, calm seas or a sunny day, etc. ...

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" (Hesiod, Theogony, 166) Through their opposite characteristics, Hesiod is implying that the natural world achieves balance through conflicting elements. ... He depicts how she creates "the nymphs" (Hesiod, Theogony, 132) and the "barren sea with its swollen waves" (Hesiod, Theogony, 134) to demonstrate how powerful she is. ...

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The chorus then provides the appropriate reaction to this, announcing that the King "has had a change of heart that is impure, sacrilegious: he is prepared to dare anything, his mind is made up He dares to become the sacrificer of his own daughter in order to help an army recapture a woman and to open up the sea to his ships- (Aeschylus). ...

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