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Essays 211 - 240
and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...
representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...
(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...
of injury or illness in the ancient world. Therefore, in ancient Greece and Rome, the practice of euthanasia, that is, intentional...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
he had come down with a deadly disease. The author states that "Habrocomes pulled his hair and tore his clothes; he lamented over ...
by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...
This eleven page report considers Etruscan history, politics, and society as a whole. Cultural reflections such as language and ...
In three pages the differences between Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Akkadians, and Sumerians are examined. Three ...
the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and the sphinx, a two-hundred and forty foot long statue with the body of a lion and a head of a man...
of alluvium, i.e., silt, which has been deposited as a result of the annual flooding of the Nile for centuries (Lau, 1991). Lower ...
extant of the distinctive grey geometric ware produced in Crete during this period. Towards...
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 ...
woman who had just inserted a foul-smelling crocodile dung suppository. Other adventurous women seeking to avoid pregnancy in anc...
His leadership alliances undoubtedly contributed to Romes preeminent world status, but at a price. His autocratic rule encouraged...
from the Olmec cradle could have entered its grave. But the Mesoamerican ethos survived. It contracted, and then began to spread a...
Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...
The sculpture is comprised of marble. Subject Matter The subject matter of this particular sculpture is a kouros, or a Greek y...
of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
from each other...There are also a number of similarities that are evident with these two cultures as well" (Greek and Roman Art)....
According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...
Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
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...
the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...
of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...