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Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

His leadership alliances undoubtedly contributed to Romes preeminent world status, but at a price. His autocratic rule encouraged...

woman who had just inserted a foul-smelling crocodile dung suppository. Other adventurous women seeking to avoid pregnancy in anc...

Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...

the Greeks, which makes it all the stranger that it is the Roman Empire that grew and prospered, and not the earlier one. Part of ...

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

In five pages this paper discusses how the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia achieved cultural expansion thr...

store by astronomy, for example, and little by astrology, which is seen as having no scientific rationale and is therefore dismiss...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

in fifth century Athens, actually led the nation (190). Some might argue that the leadership was based on age and gender and so al...

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

became the law of the land (Rempel). While such a system may seem chaotic, and perhaps even very close to...

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

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

Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...

indeed a city of art and beauty - at least for those among the wealthy who could afford both art and beauty. As with any urban are...

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

come forth (Honderich, 1995). The Epicureans and Stoics had played an important role in the philosophical tradition (1995). Epicur...

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...

Fields(Pearce, 2002). From early Greek accounts, then, one could easily conclude several things about the ordinary Grecian...

of their bodies and exercise often, sometimes along with the men, and sometimes by themselves" (Anonymous Legal Status in the Gree...

Artemis, and her hair was cut. For the next several months the bride was taught the domestic duties she would perform for the rest...

Chaos. Gaea, the first Titan, was the earth, itself. After she emerged from the Chaos, she gave birth to her own consort, Uranus, ...

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...