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Essays 871 - 900
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...
was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...
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...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
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...
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 ...
The most prominent of the features in the area is Quirinal Hill; one of the Seven Hills of Rome. This is an areas that has...
(Egyptian Temples, part I: Divine Kingship, 2007). "[I]t was vital and necessary to keep the gods satisfied and wanting to stay in...
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,...
And, in terms of using their sexuality, "They do not share their couches with their husbands but with the other men who happen to ...
relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...
not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...
Creek Missile Agency as an homage to their hero Dr. Werner von Braun of the Army Ballistic Agency and built their first missile ou...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
city in that time frame is in order. Civilization based in Rome, lasted for some 800 years.4 The earliest period of Rome is merg...
Fields(Pearce, 2002). From early Greek accounts, then, one could easily conclude several things about the ordinary Grecian...
of their bodies and exercise often, sometimes along with the men, and sometimes by themselves" (Anonymous Legal Status in the Gree...
forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...
death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...
For entertainment, men tended to engage in a variety of activities, mostly involving drinking, wrestling, horseback riding, and ga...
has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...
814,000 in 1974. In fact, except for the year 1970, the decade saw a general trend toward increased college opportunities for blac...
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...
Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticize...