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he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

also stand in testament to the fact of the existence and power of a central government and a strong social stratification. The ru...

system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

civilization and therefore conclusions about Roman civilization as a whole are pertinent to the topic under investigation. Therefo...

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

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

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

This is the beginning of his journey in terms of the importance of vows and oaths. Gawain will do as he is told...

translating some early Babylonian text, one male scholar notes that women in this society were "allowed" to hold and manage their ...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

the dead return to their own unique world of the dead, being reborn in a sense (Phippen, 2006). The sun was also part...

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

to jobs and industry. The Committee decides to approve Taxcos plans but they provide no reasons for their decision. The decisio...

Most of us recognize that New York City serves as a symbol of all that is possible in the world today. It is also a city that repr...

perception required for awareness is decidedly unique to human beings. Man looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, hi...

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

around the living room, checking the place out. Then it moved to the kitchen, I followed. Its silky black body moved against my ...

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

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

and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...

writing was the mainstay of civilised life. A seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in their e...

the sciences we note that many civilizations prior to the Greeks had their own form of science but most of that science was based ...

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

powerful texture. The cloth that apparently is draped around the woman seems quite tight, and beautifully well distributed. It app...