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Essays 541 - 570

Rome’s Great Peace and Julius Caesar

Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus served as the first...

Comparing Apuleius' Golden Ass to Raiders of the Lost Ark

also his lover, that the antidote is to eat some roses. However, when he goes out into the garden to do so, he is beaten by the ga...

The Aeneid and Roman Justice

such, the men prepare for the journey, but are instantly faced with a critical setback: Aeneas primary fleet captain Palinurus is ...

Ancient Greece and Rome/Suffering

of injury or illness in the ancient world. Therefore, in ancient Greece and Rome, the practice of euthanasia, that is, intentional...

DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES: HOW THE CURRENT SITUATION COMPARES WITH THE FALL OF ROME’S EMPIRE

Empire. First was the emphasis in Ancient Rome on "bread and circuses," which were used to distract the population from real probl...

The Church and the Empire in the 4th Century

in the late Third and early Fourth centuries. Diocletian had ruled with an iron hand. He established a four-fold division of power...

Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire

to try to protect all clergy and stating that they could not be taxed (Religion Facts, 2011). This was not something the leaders i...

Early Christians

at that time. It was always in turmoil with one battle or one war or another being waged. The Greco-Roman world consists of the al...

Strength of the Sasanian Empire

226 and defeated the armies of Islam by 651, establishing an empire that extended "from the Indus to the Nile, from Yemen to the C...

Argentina and the Radical Social Divide that Has Emerged

OUTLINE I. Introduction A. 2001 Financial Collapse...

Rome Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

Realism and the Great Rome’s Great Peace

The history of ancient Rome revolves largely around warfare. There was, however, a time in Roman history when...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

The Golden Ass and Roman Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Golden Ass. The novel is examined for its treatment of Roman society. Paper uses...

World War II the US and Japan

This paper explores the reasons the US entered World War II as well as the reasons behind the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. T...

Fair and Accurate? Evaluating Constantine’s Conversion

there is also the possibility that his refusal to do away with pagan practices entirely is because of his own adherence to them. ...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Considering “The Satyricon”

numerous pieces of poetry, and thus resembling in form the Varronian Satire" (Allinson). It is a comic romance, in which the adv...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Roman Catholic Beliefs About Lord's Supper

it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness...

The Fall of the Roman Empire

into the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire was the reason behind Romes fall. This theory suggests that the Empire weakened at...

Same-Sex Behavior And Attitudes In Ancient Greece And Rome: Providing Help Dealing With Gays In The Military In Modern America

by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

Comparing Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses

Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...

Was the Fall of the Roman Empire Inevitable?

Empire was in decline "from 180 CE onward" but that both society and the state continued to function well, in spite of military de...

Christian Life/Sanctification and Epistle to the Romans

as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...

The Fall of the Roman Empire

complacency. For example, the United States, like Rome, is in a position that seems all but infallible in terms of controlling muc...

The Black Plague: The Roman Empire and Europe

truly a mystery to them, and thus incredibly frightening. Both cultures, or time periods, were possessed of cultures that were v...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...