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The Franks

of the empire; Christianity. In light of this it appears as though the Franks worked towards a relationship with the papal power...

Greek and Roman Culture: Understanding Sex Through Art

in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...

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...

A Civic Project

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

Classical civilizations

classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...

Christian Life/Sanctification and Epistle to the Romans

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

Considering “The Satyricon”

numerous pieces of poetry, and thus resembling in form the Varronian Satire" (Allinson). It is a comic romance, in which the adv...

A Look at Early Civilizations

put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...

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...

Fair and Accurate? Evaluating Constantine’s Conversion

there is also the possibility that his refusal to do away with pagan practices entirely is because of his own adherence to them. ...

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...

Same-Sex Behavior And Attitudes In Ancient Greece And Rome: Providing Help Dealing With Gays In The Military In Modern America

by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...

Time Travel and the Architecture of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt

Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...

Passion of the Christ

aids come across to the audience as decent people whom at least attempt to save Jesus from death (Cunningham, 2004). The gift of l...

Reevaluation of Heart Disease's Causative Factors

In eight pages this paper examines current research pertaining to heart disease in a consideration of molecular, bacterial, and vu...

Reevaluation of Causes of Heart Disease

In six pages this paper considers heart disease in terms of the investigation into its root causes and includes the identification...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Scipio Africanus on the Nature of War

to be disappointed. He also humanizes Scipio for his readers, since this is a man who accomplished great things and is still not w...

What My Religion Means to Me

the Catholic Church is the one true church if the person really believes that it is (Beliefs, doctrines and practices, 2007). If t...

Life of a Roman Soldier: Persian Wars

a man with shield and spear and lance and ultimately all the metal protection they could possess. The cavalry was incredibly succe...

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Changes In The Catholic Church

(Hellwig, 2007). Like many Catholics, this woman followed everything the Church taught, followed all the rules, adhered to all the...

Painted Rooms: Rome

are so clearly defined that there is a lack of true illusionism that one would see in a painting that encompasses many overlapping...

Roman Catapults

that Archimedes and his engines were actually capable of throwing stones that were 3 times as heavy as that (Cuomo). And, their ap...

Historical Changes in the English Language

our purposes, its important to note that "... the Latin tongue did not replace Brittonic as the language of the general population...

Roman Catholic Teachings and Suicide

in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable" (The Vatican n.d.). Father Sau...

Cicero & Rhetoric

role in eloquent speech. Another similarity is that Cicero, like Aristotle, believes that an effective orator is a person of high ...

Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...