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Greek Society and Cultural Values

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

An Ideal Society With a Combination of Ancient and Modern Aspects

overall the U.S. has a good commitment to education and this commitment should continue to increase for an ideal society. ...

Ancient Rome, Family, and Marriage

ghost stories and one even entailed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (2001). Included are a wide array of characters inclusive of the ...

Past Cultures and Societies' Sex Scandals

occurred throughout political history. Numerous American presidents have deceived their wives and, therefore, their country...

Grecian and Roman Styles of Death

Fields(Pearce, 2002). From early Greek accounts, then, one could easily conclude several things about the ordinary Grecian...

Ship Registry and Certification

Kyokai (ClassNK), 1899 * River Register of 1913: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) * Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS),...

Hebrew, Greek and Roman Values in Ancient and Medieval Literary Works

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

Egypt and Mesopotamia Comparison

these ancient societies traded with other regions, but there were also differences in their economies were organized. Mesopotamia ...

Renault: "The Persian Boy"

man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Rome & Greece: Good, Dutiful Citizens Versus Athletic Ability, Philosophical Issues And Physical Beauty

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

Ancient Civilizations Greece, Rome, China, and Egypt Approaches to Birth Control

woman who had just inserted a foul-smelling crocodile dung suppository. Other adventurous women seeking to avoid pregnancy in anc...

Comparing the Empire of Ancient Rome with Ancient Greece

to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...

Egyptian Pyramids and Religion

This research paper presents an investigation of literature, which indicates the meaning and purpose that the pyramids served wit...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Origins of Mental Illnesses

Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Ancient Greece and Rome/Suffering

of injury or illness in the ancient world. Therefore, in ancient Greece and Rome, the practice of euthanasia, that is, intentional...

Villains in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

Oedipus and Medea: Leadership and Kingship

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

Jesus as King in Matthew

the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

Women's Roles Thorough History: Ancient Times Through 1600

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

The Godfather Film by Francis Ford Coppola and Concepts of Capitalism and Kinship

first two movies -- "The Godfather" (1972) and "The Godfather, II" (1974) -- are the most indicative of such a process. (The third...

Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century Kingship

In five pages this paper examines the concept of kingship within this time period with the emphasis upon France and England, and t...

Analyzing Richard III and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Kingship

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...