Women warriors in myth and legend
Hell hath no fury! Women warriors have been present in every major time period throughout history. Their stories have added spice to the meal for anyone studying the dramatic turning points in most civilizations.
In recent years, it has become more and more common to find some "new" revelation about the role of women in early civilizations. Some of the muddy waters have come from the fact that often
by Dean Traylor
Brynhild is possibly the most iconic character in opera. Her chain mail dress, horned helmet, blonde ponytail, sword, shield, and
VIRGIL AND HIS ATTITUDE TOWARDS HIS CHARACTERS AND AUGUSTAN IDEALS
Throughout the Aeneid readers are constantly reminded of the inevitability
by Randy Pinion
Given that he wrote the Iliad many hundreds of years after the fact, Homer was destined for an eternity of skeptical questions, and
225 Article Titles on Classical Lit & Mythology
- Greek mythology: What were nectar and ambrosia (4 articles)
- Greek mythology: Cleo (1 article)
- Popular books written by Alexandre Dumas (1 article)
- Mythology: The story of Echo and Narcissus (4 articles)
- Mythology: The love story of Eros and Psyche (4 articles)
- Mythology: The love story of Orpheus and Eurydice (3 articles)
- Mythology: The nine sons of the dragon (1 article)
- The story of Oedipus and the riddle of the sphinx (3 articles)
- The art of rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Rome (4 articles)
- Plot summary: The Cock and the Jewel, The Fox and the Lion and the Milkmaid And Her Pot of Milk, from Aesop's Fables (1 article)
- Plot summary: The Odyssey, by Homer (2 articles)
- Character analysis: Clytemnestra in Electra, by Sophocles (2 articles)
- Plot summary: Electra, by Sophocles (3 articles)
- A look at order and disorder in classical literature (2 articles)
- Book summary: Antigone, by Sophocles (3 articles)
- Literary analysis: Antigone's strength in Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles (1 article)
- Literary analysis: Relationship between Grendel and Cain in Beowulf (2 articles)
- Magic in medieval literature (3 articles)
- Norse Mythology: Pairings of God and goddesses (4 articles)
- Literary analysis: Characters in Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles (3 articles)
- Overview of characters in Antigone, by Sophocles (4 articles)
- Plot summary: The Hare and the Tortoise; and The Ant and the Grasshopper of Aesop's Fables (1 article)
- Greek mythology: The Sphinx (1 article)
- Literary analysis: The eunuch in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo (1862) (1 article)
- Criticism of The Storm, by Kate Chopin (1 article)
- Greek drama reviews: Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles (9 articles)
- Runes (2 articles)
- Holden Caulfield character sketch (2 articles)
- Greek drama reviews: The Bacchae, by Euripides (2 articles)
- Summary of Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (1 article)
- Mystery in A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster (1 article)
- Modernism in Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (1 article)
- Analysis of Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson (1 article)
- Achilles' search for immortality in the Iliad, by Homer (1 article)
- Summary of Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (1 article)
- Meaning in Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1 article)
- Literary analysis: Heroism as portrayed in Beowulf (4 articles)
- Symbols in The Odyssey, by Homer (1 article)
- Literary analysis: Summary of Lysistrata, by Aristophanes (1 article)
- Who assigned the 12 labors to Hercules? (1 article)
- An overview on Hesiod's Theogony (2 articles)
- Literary analysis: Beowulf (17 articles)
- The cult of the goddess Leto (1 article)
- An overview of the major characters in The Odyssey, by Homer (1 article)
- Greek mythology: The Harpies (2 articles)
- Greek mythology: The history and significance of the Hesperides (1 article)
- Biography: Dante Alighieri (2 articles)
- The use of female symbols in mythology (1 article)
- Criticism: Plato's Republic (5 articles)
- Literary analysis: The conflict between Antigone and Creon in Sophocles' Antigone (3 articles)


