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foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

both the military and his citizens. This power was called jus vitae aut necis meaning the power of life or death. This is not a re...

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...

indeed a city of art and beauty - at least for those among the wealthy who could afford both art and beauty. As with any urban are...

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...

changed, shaped by events which have unfolded. Greek society was also shaped by the events which unfolded. In Ipthigenia at Auli...

2003). Because these boxes were so magnificent and rare, they were often popular booty or war prizes claimed by Assyrian kings (C...

piece. Rhyton were generally very ornate and are thought by most experts to have been mostly for ritual ceremonies, or perhaps u...

match for the ultimate prize, "possession of the earth" (Lovett, 1997, p. ix). The exact date of the competition also varies, and...

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

sense of comfort and knowingness when one is met with something that they can understand. Yet, when faced with the unfamiliar work...

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

far more meaning that representing daily life. According to one particular author, "The Cycladic civilization of the Aegean sea...

Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...

"unibrow" today--and wide, blue eyes. One is almost reminded of the wide eyed paintings of the 1960s when viewing this ancient pie...

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

The sculpture is comprised of marble. Subject Matter The subject matter of this particular sculpture is a kouros, or a Greek y...

also the most violent, podium walls had to be erected to protect the audience from possible injury (Futrell, 1997). Because these...

(Encarta). The logic of having two leaders or "co-consuls" was based on the idea that having two men in charge would keep either o...

(Ancient Egyptian Religion, 2003). In terms of origin tales, the Egyptians had several ideas about how the world began (...

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two Greek vases, one from the Archaic period and the other from the Late Geometric period...

of pattern and design. Just as modernity favors certain fabric, colors and patterns, the people of an earlier era wanted to beauti...

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...