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Ancient Greece and Rome/Suffering

of injury or illness in the ancient world. Therefore, in ancient Greece and Rome, the practice of euthanasia, that is, intentional...

Ancient Kingship in the Sasanid Empire

by C.E. Bosworth, offers a considerable insight into how the ancient Sasanid civilization of Persia (modern day Iran) perceived ki...

Comparing Apuleius' Golden Ass to Raiders of the Lost Ark

also his lover, that the antidote is to eat some roses. However, when he goes out into the garden to do so, he is beaten by the ga...

Historical and Cultural Differences in Photography and Printing in the East and West

how large. Interestingly enough, it is also the case that the artistic documentation of culture also serves as the instrument thro...

Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

Including Art in Third Grade Science Lesson

titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...

Ancient Egypt and the deification of kings

to punishment after death: Budge (1905) comments that many later religions derived their concept of a fiery, demonic hell from the...

The Benin Empire

boxes and finger harps. Intricate jewelry, ritual items, masks and bronze work of all kinds were its main trade. Business/...

Ancient Art Analysis

of the people. Being that storytelling was the way to pass along religion, this influenced the sculptures of the people and in tur...

There’s Something About Mary

fool has a wondrous capability of truly providing many different elements of human nature to the audience. They can be ridiculous ...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

The Communist Emperor of China, Mao Zedong

on the planet. It had a number of dynasties and emperors in its long history, until the 20th century, when it became a Communist n...

Fire and the Development of the Fire Service

mean firefighting in all its permutations, from urban areas to forest fires; it includes training and equipment as well. This pape...

Rome's Fall Does History Repeat Itself?

perceived both by its citizens, those of other countries, and the government of other countries. There have been numerous...

Theories of Justice, Ancient and Modern

even harder to achieve. This paper considers some of the principles of justice theories, how they differ from utilitarianism, how ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Shamanism

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

A Civic Project

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

Athena, The Virgin Goddess

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

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...

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...

Northrup on History

This 4 page paper discusses David Northrup’s idea that history should be considered as comprising two periods, before and after ...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

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...