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    mythology

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    The role of women in ancient Greek life was insignificant compared to that of Greek men. A woman’s job was to take care of the children and to cook and clean unless she had servants or slaves that would do it for her. Yet‚ in Greek mythology‚ women were often written as major characters. Well-known Greek plays contain many well-written‚ complex‚ female characters. Female individuals in Greek mythology were often seen as very powerful and fierce Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that

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    Social Class Matters

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    Books Group. Retrieved from EBSCOhost Nesbit‚ T. (2005). Social class and adult education. New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education‚ (106)‚ 5-14. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Overview of Social Inequality. (n.d.) Plutarch Quote. Retrieved from http://www. www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/strat.html Social Class in the United States. 2011. Figure 1 image Retrieved from http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_​the_United_States - Cached Thompson

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    Biography of Cicero

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    The ascending years. New Haven‚ CT: Yale Univ. Press. * Mitchell‚ Thomas N. 1991. Cicero: The senior statesman. New Haven‚ CT: Yale Univ. Press. Stockton‚ D. L. 1971. Cicero: A political biography. London: Oxford Univ. Press. * Plutarch‚ Death of Cicero‚ translated by John Dryden

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    Theseus and the young men from Crete after Theseus slayed the Minotaur. As a tradition‚ the Athenians continually sailed the ship‚ but after time‚ “They took away the old timbers from time to time‚ and put new and sound ones in their places...” (Plutarch

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    Abacus History

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    What did the first counting board look like? The earliest counting boards are forever lost because of the perishable materials used in their construction. However‚ educated guesses can be made about their construction‚ based on early writings of Plutarch (a priest at the Oracle at Delphi) and others. In outdoor markets of those times‚ the simplest counting board

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    when he witnessed the remaining part of his army surrender to Octavian resulting in his defeat‚ as well as witnessing false news that Cleopatra had killed herself. During the time of Antony’s death‚ he was in a vigorous civil war against Octavian. Plutarch Quotes “Antony was perched high on a mountain watching over his fleet as they were about to battle Octavian’s fleet but at the last second Antony’s Fleet saluted Octavian’s fleet causing both fleets to turn on Antony”. Antony knew he was defeated

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    Antigone Outline

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    SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.) Antigone I. Introduction Antigone is a Greek dramatic play tragedy by Sophocles.  Sophocles was born into a wealthy family (his father was an amour manufacturer) and was highly educated. Sophocles’ first artistic triumph was in 468 BC‚ when he took first prize in the Dionysian theatre competition over the reigning master of Athenian drama‚ Aeschylus. Sophocles wrote the three Theban plays‚ a collection that has survived for centuries‚ and for good reason. One of these

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    thirty when the Spartan would become a full Spartiate and receive the right to vote. The fact that a Spartan spent so much of his life in the agoge meant that there was a long time for the state imposed system to force him to have the same views. Plutarch tells us that the particularly intelligent young men in the agoge were chosen to be part of the Krypteia‚ a group of young Spartans who acted as a sort of secret police. He says that they were sent into the countryside and “murdered any helot whom

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    made to help with a ritual for the rebirth of the Apis bull. The Apis bull is part of an Egyptian cult and is “The Apis bull was originally viewed as the manifestation of Ptah. The Apis was soon linked to Osiris when Ptah and Osiris merged and so Plutarch described the Apis as the fair and beautiful image of the soul of Osiris. According to one myth the Apis was the living embodiment of Ptah while he lived and Osiris when he

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    Roman Civil Serive

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    Was there a Roman civil service? The term ‘civil service’ as we know it encompasses a huge range of different offices for the government. Individuals are typically employed based on professional merit and proven credentials. They also rarely encompass anything related to the military. But was this the case in Ancient Rome? This is what I will answer through looking at the various civil bodies and the evidence of these I hope to build a coherent view of the offices held within Rome and whether this

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