with their concepts of democracy stemming from a strong sense of individuality and resent for monarchy. Ancient Greece was located in a very mountainous area, which made inner land travel difficult and secluded communities away from each other. As a result of this, many cities were located by the sea, and travel was predominantly through the usage of the Aegean Sea. In a number of ways Greece differed from other civilizations at the time. Fertile land was scarce, and this scarcity of land that could
Name: George Jukes Student Number: 23003317 Module Code: CL1CA CL1CA Convenor: Professor Amy Smith CL1CA Seminar Tutor: Professor Luke Houghton Personal Tutor: Professor Roger Matthews Date of Submission: 10/12/14 Deadline: 11/12/14 How did the Greeks construct Greek and non-Greek identity? The Classical period of Ancient Greece saw the emergence of the idea of the ‘Greek’, or being Greek rather than from one’s own Polis (city-state), constructed in contrast to the idea of the ‘non-Greek’. This construct
Hero’s Journey Comparison: Hero or Anti-hero? Over the past couple of months, our literature and composition class has examined and analyzed three classical pieces of literature and compared them to the steps of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey concept. As we delved deeper into the analyzation process, the most prominent question brought to my attention was whether our three protagonists, Santiago, Edmond, and Odysseus, were heroes or antiheroes. Given, there are many different definitions of the