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woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...

the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...

lost natural state, at which point Shamhat offers to take him to the city where the joys of "civilization shine in their resplende...

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

This is the function of a shawabti, but does it really describe the way in which one was lovingly carved, placed, or the perspecti...

have causes to which they can be traced, the causes in themselves can be classified into four principles of explanation: material...

both the military and his citizens. This power was called jus vitae aut necis meaning the power of life or death. This is not a re...

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

only did the Egyptians influence other cultures, they were also influenced by other cultures. One of the most positive in...

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

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

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

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

of the history attached to the pictures. It is often argued that these murals were merely implemented to add to the oral tradition...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two Greek vases, one from the Archaic period and the other from the Late Geometric period...

him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...

in World War II and those serving in the military in Vietnam. We have experienced this disease even more directly, however, right...

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

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

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

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

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

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

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

woman), the two became inseparable friends/lovers. From that point forth, Gilgamesh never abused his power again. In te...

of these concepts were a part of the Jewish faith. And, it was not only Judaism that was affected. Many other world religions woul...

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...