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the Virgin Mary are frequently called upon in the characters speech to protect them and deliver their society from the hatred that...

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

but also offers insight into how the passage pertains to present-day Christian life. Background on Marks Gospel, Literary Interpre...

and isolation of contagious patients would save lives and slow the transmission of illness. Sterilization and disinfection of mi...

provides the details that are lacking in the classical accounts of the Celts. Cunliffe wrote "The Ancient Celts" with the f...

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...

of the "old Roman people," as well as the reign of Augustus, "till growing sycophancy scared them away."4 Already hes suggesting t...

the following: In todays world, it seems that the people are turning a blind eye to what is really going on as it respects the top...

Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...

and Socrates meander along the countryside, they talk about the various facets love harbors like heavenly passion all-important fr...

These are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom time periods. THE OLD KINGDOM STRETCHED BETWEEN 2686 AND 2125 B...

the heat. Since its the culture most often thought of in this connection, well explore the ancient Egyptian method of mummificatio...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

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

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

The major challenge in constructing histories of Israel and Judah is the fact that they were individuals but they also had cities ...

During the first several centuries, war was a constant state of being in different parts of the world. This essay focused on war i...

were and what they sought in a ruler. That the king was to represent the highest values and virtues of society is evident from sch...

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

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

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

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

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

from the Olmec cradle could have entered its grave. But the Mesoamerican ethos survived. It contracted, and then began to spread a...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...