It is the story of young Antigone, daughter of the late King Oedipus, who is devoted to her brother Polynices. ... This brotherly struggle was the clever plan devised by King Creon. ... Creon attempted to convince her to stop trying to bury her brother. ... The Germans allowed the play to be performed presumably because they found Creon's arguments for dictatorship so convincing. ... Least Rewarding Facet: After having read Antigone by Sophocles before I read this version, I found myself partial to the original version - for I had known everything about it. ...

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The newly found king of Thebes publicly declares that Antigone's fallen brother is not to be buried, but is to be left to rot and be eaten by birds. ... Antigone had two brothers that had fought on opposite sides during a war to control Thebes. Both of her brothers had died on the battlefield. ... She loved her brother and buried him against Creon's wishes. ... When Medea heard of Jason's newly found bride, she spoke of murdering her and Jason because she was so hurt. ...

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Little does he know that his "beloved" wife has found another lover and is plotting to murder him upon his arrival. ... A man called Adam Brant who's guise was to court Lavinia, was really in love with Christine and shockingly it became known that he is actually a member of the family, product of an affair between a maid and David Mannon who is Abe Mannon the grandfather's brother. ... Two days after his death, Orin, the brother, returns home from war. ... Her vengeance and hatred nourished her until her brother's return. ...

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While fleeing across the Mediterranean Medea killed her own brother and threw him overboard in an attempt to slow their pursuers. ... Jason stated that "It's not for the sake of any woman that I have made this royal marriage, but, as I've already said, to ensure your future, and to give my children brothers of royal blood, and build security for us all" (Euripides 35). ... I have no mother, brother, nor any of my own blood to turn to in this extremity" (Euripides 25). ... When Jason ran to Medea he found that she had stabbed both of his sons as well. ...

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The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? ... There was no way he could have found the treasure he told the members of his chain gang (Pete and Delmar) he was going for because it did not exist. ... In O Brother Where Art Thou?... The movie written by the Coen brothers is based on the epic poem and there are references from the poem. ...

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Helen was married to Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon because her stepfather, King Tyndareus of Sparta want someone to protect Helen. ... Menelaus enraged and summoned the princes that promised to protect Helen and his brother, Agamemnon (the leader of the expedition) to attack Troy. ... Odysseus found Helen during the sack of Troy and brought her back to Menelaus. ...

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Prometheus has the special trait of individuality, and he has harnessed this skill with an understanding of his uniqueness, with this skill-set Prometheus rises and reigns dominant to all his brothers. ... According to Greek mythology, Prometheus gave many gifts to humans while creating humans along with his brother Epimetheus. ... (Rand 94) He has found his three new holy words. " I will it".( Rand 95)Prometheus has found a way to singularize himself. ...

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Known as Venus in Rome, she was married to her brother Hephaestus, or Vulcan as he was sometimes known. ... Bowra, the one she chose to sleep with most often was another one of her brothers, Ares (180). ... She even had an affair with her uncle Poseidon, and also with her half-brother Hermes, which produced the only Olympian without a gender, Hermaphrodite (Untangle). ... His first wife was called Metis, goddess of wisdom, and Zeus devoured her when he found out she was pregnant. ... With the goddess of the harvest, Demeter, he had an important daughter called Persephone, who he lat...

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Although the actual "blood curse" first starts later (between two brothers named Atreus and Thyestes) with betrayal and revenge all amongst family members, I believe that it all started with Tantalus, a barbarian whose spirits haunt the Oresteia. ... The actual blood curse in the house of Atreus, which I mentioned earlier, was started by the a feud between two brothers, Atreus and Thyestes.Thyestes betrays his brother by seducing his wife, whereas Atreus takes revenge on Thyestes and feeds his sons to him. ... But she has betrayed her own family including her father and brother, and therefore ...

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Hera, however, found out about them and cursed Leto to never be able to heve her child in a place where the sun can shine. ... Being very weak from giving birth to Artemis, could not have the second baby with out any help, so Artemis helped deliver her twin brother Apollo. ... Firstly we have child birth, because she helped deliver her brother Apollo, second then she has the gift of Eternal Chastity, she asked to never be givin away to annother man, and eternal youth and beauty, because she saw what Aphtodite did with who she had power over, so she has the domain over those who are beeing givi...

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In the beginning of the play, Oedipus's brother-in-law Creon was sent to visit the Gods. ... When he found out what he had done, he said, "Me miserable! ... Oedipus blamed the people whom he once thought to be his parents for what happened to him, saying, "O Polybus, And Corinth, and the old paternal roof I once called mine, with what thin film of honour, Corruption over-skinned, you fostered me, Found ill myself, and from ill parents, now (pg. 75)!" ...

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This curse comes about when Atreus tricks his brother Thyestes into eating his own children. Thyestes reacts by calling down this curse upon his brother's house. ... The jury turns out to be split down the middle but with Athena's vote results in Orestes being found not guilty. ... Going through the Aristotelian methodology to find the good that tragedies offer to the whole, we have found justice. ...

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Moreover, that he was found by a wandering shepherd who took him to the nearby city of Corinth where he was adopted by the childless King Polybos and Queen Merope who raised him as a son and prince in the royal household. ... Consequently, he sends Creon, his brother-in-law, to Delphi to consult the oracles and find out the identity of the murderer. ...

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Usually it is found that most Greek heroes do not die at the end. ... Very often in Greek Literature it is found that one of the heroes in the piece have committed some type of taboo at one time or the other. ... She made her personal problems with the burials of her brothers everyone's problems. ...

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"After a painful search I found one cure: I acted at once. I sent Creon, my wife's own brother, to Delphi- Apollo the Prophet's oracle- to learn what I might do or say to save our city" (Sophocles 601). ... Tiresias foresees the tragedy that is to be revealed and although hesitant in bringing the truth forward, he eventually reveals that the murderer is a native Theban who is son and husband to his wife, as well as brother and father to his own children, and the murderer of his own father. ... It comes to light that Oedipus was not the son of the king of Corinth but had been found w...

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Weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq and the U.S. ... Antigone followed natural law and buried her brother, Polynices" body. ... When Creon found out that it was Antigone who buried the body he sentenced her to death, as he had previously decreed. ... If weapons of mass destruction were found and the events of September 11th never happened, then the U.S. may have handled the latter situation differently; they may not have pursued it so strongly. ...

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(413) Teiresias began to tell Oedipus who he really was when he said, "And the multitude of other evils establishing a grim equality between you and your children, you know nothing." (423) Oedipus was both father and brother of his children. ... He found out the shepherd was one of Laius" men. ... He found out that he had killed his father and married his mother. Oedipus then went to find Jocasta, but when he found her she was already dead. ...

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He is the brother of Artemis and the son of Zeus and Leto. ... Before Apollo was born, Hera found out that Zeus had an affair with Leto. ... When Apollo found that Hermes made such a beautiful instrument, he said he would forgive him for stealing if he gave him the lyre. ... Then, the best friend of Achilles, Patroclus, kept trying to persuade him to fight in the war, but found that it was useless, so he took the armor of Achilles and went to battle. ...

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He is the brother of Artemis and the son of Zeus and Leto. ... Before Apollo was born, Hera found out that Zeus had an affair with Leto. ... When Apollo found that Hermes made such a beautiful instrument, he said he would forgive him for stealing if he gave him the lyre. ... Then, the best friend of Achilles, Patroclus, kept trying to persuade him to fight in the war, but found that it was useless, so he took the armor of Achilles and went to battle. ...

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His unswerving confidence in his innocence even causes him to accuse his own brother in law, Creon, of conspiring against him to steal the throne. ... After speaking with the messenger from Corinth who was an actual witness to his being given away by Jocasta, he still must hear it from the mouth of the shepherd who found him as a baby. ...

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He quickly suggested they send Hermes; messenger of the gods, to Troy where Paris, the son of King Priam could be found on Mount Ida. ... Menelaus was furious and sent for his brother King Agamemnon to come assist him. ...

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In the meantime, Hippolytus was in love with Aricia, who wasn't allowed to marry because of her brothers" malicious histories. When Phaedra found out about Hippolytus" love for Aricia, she couldn't help but to be overwhelmed with jealousy. ...

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On the mountain, the horsemen of King Polybus of Corinth found him and brought him to the city where the Queen Periboea adopted him and named him Oedipus because of his swollen ankles. ... Creon, Jocasta's brother and now ruler of Thebes declared that anyone who solved the riddle would become ruler of Thebes and have Jocasta's hand in marriage. ...

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Virgil seeks to reveal the true reason for the Trojan War and Aeneas' journey to Italy to found the predecessor to Rome. ... Theonoe, the other strong female character in Helen, deceives her brother into thinking she knows nothing of Menelaus being alive and in Egypt. ...

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When Oedipus finds out that he is the murderer of King Laius he does not believe that this could be possible, he thinks that it is Creon, his brother in law and unlce, and the profit Tiresias plotting against him to gain the throne. ... If, in the present dangerous situation, he thinks that I have injured him in any way, by word or deed, let me not live out of the rest of my days with such a reputation." (33) Oedipus eventually found out that his accusation toward Creon was incorrect and this left him in shambles, for Oedipus then had to find out what really did happen to King Laius. ... Th...

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