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

themselves but produce the food that Rome needed to survive. As a consequence of the scenario outlined above, agrarian laws...

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

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

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

("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...

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

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

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

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

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

A surplus of economic wealth that leads to a division of labor means that certain social classes typically perform different jobs ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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