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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...

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...

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

6,000 BCE as well as for textiles in 4,000 BCE in China and it is also recorded as being used as a medicine in China in 2727 (Narc...

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

slowly and the next major developments moving towards the modern financial markets was the increased use of the corporate status,...

references that appear when "temple-state" is the prompt refer to Mesopotamia, which may indicate that it was the civilization whe...

these ancient societies traded with other regions, but there were also differences in their economies were organized. Mesopotamia ...

man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...