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Ancient Greek Women and the Effects of Medicine, Law, and Architecture

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

Risks and Uncertainties of Med Tunnel

costs while being low enough to attract passengers. To better understand the risks and uncertainties surrounding such a pr...

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...

Greece and Economic Growth Costs

1 Growth in the Greek GDP compared with the EU 15 member states 1993 - 2002 (Bank of Greece, 2002)....

Ancient Greek Civilization Aspects Glimpsed in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

Antimenes Amphora Vase and Herakles Fighting the Nemeian Lion

the storing of provisions. Those found abundantly under the sea in ancient shipwrecks have a narrow neck and were not designed to ...

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...

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 Culture and 'The Iliad' by Homer

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

Ancient Greeks on Rationality and Science

store by astronomy, for example, and little by astrology, which is seen as having no scientific rationale and is therefore dismiss...

Ancient Athens and Democracy

became the law of the land (Rempel). While such a system may seem chaotic, and perhaps even very close to...

Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General Motors

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

Impracticality of Direct Democracy

in fifth century Athens, actually led the nation (190). Some might argue that the leadership was based on age and gender and so al...

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...

Ancient Civilizations: Greece and Rome Compared

the Greeks, which makes it all the stranger that it is the Roman Empire that grew and prospered, and not the earlier one. Part of ...

Elgin Marbles' Fight Between Great Britain and Greece

In five pages this paper examines the arguments on both sides regarding this fight for the marbles in a consideration of whether o...

Ancient Civilizations and the Significance of Writing

In five pages this paper discusses how the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia achieved cultural expansion thr...

Past and Present Definitions of Hero

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

Art of Greece and Rome

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

John Proctor and David Merrill: Tragic Heroes

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

Philosophy and Ethics of Capital Punishment

Inn five pages an arguement supporting the death penalty is presented no in terms of religion or the law but on a classical philos...

Aegean Art in Greece

In this paper consisting of four pages the Aegean art that existed before the emergence of the Classical Greek art period is explo...

Comparative Analysis of the Ancient Greeks and Han Dynasty

(e.g., women, slaves, etc.), this system was far more democratic than the Spartan government (Andrea & Overfield, 1994). Before...

Comparison of Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Confucius

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

Musical Evolution from Baroque to Classical

through the performance of ecclesiastic music because of their contributions within that context. Johann Sebastian Bach pro...

Why the Tragic Hero Label Applies to Oedipus

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

Heroism in 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In four pages the concept of the hero's journey as it manifest itself in these classical works of literature is examined. There i...