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Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization Descendents

from the Olmec cradle could have entered its grave. But the Mesoamerican ethos survived. It contracted, and then began to spread a...

Ancient Art and Pattern

of pattern and design. Just as modernity favors certain fabric, colors and patterns, the people of an earlier era wanted to beauti...

Ancient Greek Politician Pericles

him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...

Comparative Analysis of Rome and Greece with Four Ancient Civilizations (China, India, Egypt, and Mesopotamia)

region to another. The Mesopotamians produced The Epic of Gilgamesh entirely in cuneiform while the Egyptian hieroglyphics on pyr...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Comparing Two Ancient Civilizations

Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

An Analysis of Plays from Ancient and Modern Eras

changed, shaped by events which have unfolded. Greek society was also shaped by the events which unfolded. In Ipthigenia at Auli...

Ancient Artifact Duck Shaped Ivory Box

2003). Because these boxes were so magnificent and rare, they were often popular booty or war prizes claimed by Assyrian kings (C...

Ancient Artifact Rhyton

piece. Rhyton were generally very ornate and are thought by most experts to have been mostly for ritual ceremonies, or perhaps u...

Culture and the Olympics of Ancient Greece

match for the ultimate prize, "possession of the earth" (Lovett, 1997, p. ix). The exact date of the competition also varies, and...

Evaluating Ancient Art Works

sense of comfort and knowingness when one is met with something that they can understand. Yet, when faced with the unfamiliar work...

Ancient Times to Middle Ages and Religious Development

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Ancient Greece's Tragic Heroes Agamemnon, Achilles, and Hector

their lives? These are some of the questions we will consider as we look at these men in action in Homers Illiad. Tragedy Accord...

Ancient Rome and Sports

also the most violent, podium walls had to be erected to protect the audience from possible injury (Futrell, 1997). Because these...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Ancient Artworks

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...

Mummification Practices in Ancient Egypt

the heat. Since its the culture most often thought of in this connection, well explore the ancient Egyptian method of mummificatio...