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Essays 511 - 540

Importance of Oaths and Vows in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

This is the beginning of his journey in terms of the importance of vows and oaths. Gawain will do as he is told...

Ancient Egypt and What it Means to Be Part of an Empire

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

Ancient Greek Literature and Gender Distinctions

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

Ancient World Letters

wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Dante's Hell and Characters

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

Fustel de Coulanges' The Ancient City

of this section. He looks at marriage practices, such as how the "As a daughter, she took part in the religious acts of her father...

Psychology and its Historical Evolution

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

The Nile River of Ancient Egypt

the dead return to their own unique world of the dead, being reborn in a sense (Phippen, 2006). The sun was also part...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

Temples and Religious Ritual in Ancient Egypt

(Egyptian Temples, part I: Divine Kingship, 2007). "[I]t was vital and necessary to keep the gods satisfied and wanting to stay in...

Ancient Korean Pottery

began making pottery, there was "an influx of immigration from China, Manchuria, and Siberia" (Korean traditional pottery, 2002). ...

Egypt and Mesopotamia: Geography

be no real need to war because Egypt possessed what everyone needed. As such the political and intellectual perspectives turned in...

Ancient Indian Religions

not possible to work backwards to reconstruct the Harappan faith from the Vedic (Hooker, 1999). The second period is that of the...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk

there lived another Orhan so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double" (Pamuk, 2006; 3). This image is presente...

A Comparison of Sparta and Totalitarian Systems

mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state" ("The Cult...

A Short History of Perfume

is uncertain as to when it did emerge exactly. Some say that it first came about in Mesopotamia (Rimmel, 2005). Others claim that ...

Power Structure Issues in Ancient Greece

157). Nizynska (2001) writes about Greek mythology as follows: "...both Ovid and Herbert wrote under repressive regimes, and both ...

Euclid of Alexandria; The Elements

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

Ancient Astronomy

at the sky, the sun is viewed but so are a myriad of planets, and this has been something quite intriguing to scientists and ordin...

Athena, The Virgin Goddess

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

Greek, Mycenaean and Minoan Civilization

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

Shamanism

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

Kingship in Israel

by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...

The Impact of Geography on the Development of City-States in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...

Pharaoh Ramses II

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.

various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE,...

The History of Government in Italy

of the House of Savoy became King of Italy in 1861 and Rome was incorporated in 1870 (U.S. Department of State, 2006)....

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...