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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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

of this section. He looks at marriage practices, such as how the "As a daughter, she took part in the religious acts of her father...

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

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

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

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

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...

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

is uncertain as to when it did emerge exactly. Some say that it first came about in Mesopotamia (Rimmel, 2005). Others claim that ...

157). Nizynska (2001) writes about Greek mythology as follows: "...both Ovid and Herbert wrote under repressive regimes, and both ...

(Egyptian Temples, part I: Divine Kingship, 2007). "[I]t was vital and necessary to keep the gods satisfied and wanting to stay in...

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

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...

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 ...

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...