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Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard Anderson

of envisioning and grasping the full significance of difficult passages. In his preface, Anderson outlines his general approach....

Art and Religion of Ancient Egypt

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

Ancient Egypt's Political System

In five pages this paper examines Ancient Egypt's political system and structure in a consideration of viziers, the role played by...

Modern Europe and Old Religions' Influence

It was also the time that farmers harvested their crops. October 31 heralded in a change in lifestyle for people and animals and i...

Building Egyptian Pyramids

a large labour pool, but not of modern manufacturing methods, it would seem evident that the pyramids were built using vast quanti...

The Ancient City of Palenque

In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...

Ancient Literature and Companionship

of common suffering or accomplishment. Once the student working on this project sees these factors, it becomes obvious throughout ...

Ancient Greek Tyrants

2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came int...

Feminism and Lysistrata

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

Art of the Ancient Middle East

made or coins minted (Ancient near eastern art). Because the figures on the plates are not labeled, they cannot be identified wit...

Religions of Ancient Egypt

noted by the leadership of Menes, the first pharaoh, in which the communities of Egypt formed around the Nile delta and the Nile v...

Voltaire's Candide and its Criticism of the Ancient Regime

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Political Systems of Ancient Greece and Rome

members who were responsible for preparing "the agenda for the assembly and" carrying "out its decisions. This council also admini...

The Position of Philosophy and Women in Ancient Greece

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

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

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

Prostitution and Pompeii

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

Similarities of Ancient Egypt and Early Mesopotamia in Terms of Rule and Structure

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

The Problems of Ancient Mesopotamia

the individual city-states again took control and then when the Amorites moved into Mesopotamia, around 1800 B.C., they created th...

Psychology and its Historical Evolution

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

The Nile River of Ancient Egypt

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

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

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

Importance of Oaths and Vows in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

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

Matriarchy to Patriarchy Transitioning

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

Ancient World Letters

wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...

Ancient Greek Literature and Gender Distinctions

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

Revenge in Medea by Euripides

by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...

Cultural Values in History

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....

Egyptians, Mayans, Incas, and Extraterrestrials

from other planets where intricately linked with humans, involving themselves in the lives and development of human beings in Sout...