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The Historiography of Thucydides and Herodotus

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...

The Temple-State System in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

references that appear when "temple-state" is the prompt refer to Mesopotamia, which may indicate that it was the civilization whe...

Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

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...

The History of the Financial Markets

slowly and the next major developments moving towards the modern financial markets was the increased use of the corporate status,...

Ancient Costumes

3. Tebenna etruscan - toga. The Tebenna was the forerunner of the toga. For the most part the tebenna was more of a cloak, of drap...

The Sacred Architecture of the Maya at Copán

"witnessed great political growth during the early years of the Late Classic period under the reigns of long-lived rulers" and the...

Chinese Storytelling

most convoluted example of relationships that get mixed up and end badly, only to have things reverse in a startling turn of event...

Parallels Between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Legend of Prometheus

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

Civilizations of MesoAmerica, Egypt, and Greece

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

Meaning and Symbolism of Ancient Egypt's Shawabtis

This is the function of a shawabti, but does it really describe the way in which one was lovingly carved, placed, or the perspecti...

Ancient Alchemy and Its Progress

have causes to which they can be traced, the causes in themselves can be classified into four principles of explanation: material...

The Cultures of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and Athletes

"The crews are straining at the oars; the crowd on shore is cheering wildly. Each boat must sail out to sea, swing around...

Athenian Empire and Pericles

indeed a city of art and beauty - at least for those among the wealthy who could afford both art and beauty. As with any urban are...

Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge

nothing more than a ghost story to frighten a reader, it seems that there is a more powerful theme or message and that involves th...

Considering the Maya

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

Art History Questions

about Egyptian life. Discuss how an artist may express his or her point of view by explaining the content, concept and style of a...

Taylor and Rawls/Premodern to Modern

a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken ov...

Comparing Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses

Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Shamanism

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

Outline for Paper on Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Various Historical Discussions

A surplus of economic wealth that leads to a division of labor means that certain social classes typically perform different jobs ...

Mortal Women in the Iliad

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

Agricultural Needs and Landlessness in Ancient Rome

themselves but produce the food that Rome needed to survive. As a consequence of the scenario outlined above, agrarian laws...

Pyramid Building, Old and Middle Kingdom

these rulers. The huge labor force that was required to construct a pyramid was supervised by one man, the "overseer of all the k...