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Christian Allegory and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...

Ancient Greek Civilization Aspects Glimpsed in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and Romanticism

man demands to be let go, he notices something wild in the sailors eye and it intrigues the young man. As the sailor starts to tel...

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...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Ancient Empires Collapse

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

Ancient Societies and Women in Sundiata and 'Beowulf'

himself was portrayed as the incarnate of evil, whose ravenous attacks on King Hrothgars subjects were nothing more than examples ...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

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

Egyptian Religion and Ancient Hebrew Religion Compared

(Ancient Egyptian Religion, 2003). In terms of origin tales, the Egyptians had several ideas about how the world began (...

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...

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...

Ancient Civilizations: Greece and Rome Compared

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 ...

Same-Sex Behavior And Pederastic Relationships In Athens: Not All Ancient Authors Approved

and Socrates meander along the countryside, they talk about the various facets love harbors like heavenly passion all-important fr...

Ancient Rome and the Works of Vergil

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Ancient Islam and Greece, Religion, Culture, and Science

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

Evaluating Ancient Civilizations

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

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...

Comparing Two Ancient Civilizations

Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...

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...

Theories of Justice, Ancient and Modern

even harder to achieve. This paper considers some of the principles of justice theories, how they differ from utilitarianism, how ...

Ancient Artworks

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...

Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome

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

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Turning Points from Ancient History to Now

There are numerous so-called turning points in history. The way that turning points should be defined,...

Ancient Kingship in the Sasanid Empire

by C.E. Bosworth, offers a considerable insight into how the ancient Sasanid civilization of Persia (modern day Iran) perceived ki...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

builders were not foreigners or slaves, but Egyptians who lived in villages constructed specifically for this workforce ("Introduc...