Culture: Ancient Egyptian- Old Kingdom Artist: Unknown Title: False Door Date: Roughly 2400 B.C.E. Media: Limestone Measurements: 61 x 45 3/5 x 4 1/2 in. (154.9 x 115.8 x 11.4 cm) Accession #: 52.22 This relief sculpture serves more of a religious-function that any aesthetic one. Aside from have some minor damage done‚ it is nearly perfectly balanced. On the bottom of the piece are four men; two on each side that mirror each other. They all hold what seem to be spears in one hand and a scepter in
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Major Gods and Goddess |Greek Name |Roman Name |Function | |Aphroditē |Venus |Goddess of love‚ beauty‚ and desire. She was | | | |married to Hephaestus. Aresis her lover and | |
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relations. Helen of Troy was one of these women. Like so many women Homer speaks of‚ her beauty alone could be the cause of a catastrophic outcome. It is argued she began the Trojan War when she was given to Paris‚ the prince of Troy‚ who chose Aphrodite over Athena and Hera‚ who‚ furious at being seen with any less beauty‚ urged the Greeks to march towards Troy. Born to Zeus and Leda‚ Helen is a central female figure in both of Homer ’s poems. From what we can tell‚ she was always treated well
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some differences from the book that is maybe cut‚ change or re-modified. In Iliad‚ all the actions happen because of the Greek Gods and Goddesses. Paris asked to decide which of the Goddesses Hera‚ Athena and Aphrodite was the fairest‚ as she would get the Apple of Discord. He chose Aphrodite‚ who offered him the most beautiful woman in the world as his wife‚ and Hera and Athena then hated him that’s why they were on the side of the Greeks and want to destroy Troy. Everything which happens in the
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was not invited‚ and decided to instigate conflict because of her own anger. She threw an apple onto the table‚ and on the fruit she had written that it was to be given to the fairest of the goddesses. This caused the goddesses Hera‚ Athena‚ and Aphrodite to debate which one of them was to receive the apple‚ and hold the designation as the fairest of goddesses. This inciting incidence soon led to a contest which
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She cannot control her own fate‚ or she will lose the gifts Aphrodite gives her‚ which is all she is famous for. At last she has to obey Aphrodite’s order as well as the arrangements of men. Similarly‚ Achilles is the fastest runner in the world‚ where his superhuman greatness lies. When Agamemnon takes his prize away
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Name Professor Class Date History Ancient architecture and archaeology can be used to explore the idea of community and the lives of ancient peoples. In conceptualizing an ancient community‚ scholars are able to follow the trends that occurred in that society. Community and social units explain how the people in the area of Aphrodisias. By investigating this site at Aphrodisias‚ the buildings reveal that it was Roman and that the people lived there since ancient times and possibly even since
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History of the Trojan War Questions arise when you are thinking of the Trojan War and its history. How did the war start? ‚ What battle techniques did the Trojan use? Greeks? What mythical creatures and beings were involved in the war and how they changed the course of the battle? What type of battle gear did the Trojans use versus the Greeks? The Trojan war is depicted in the novel of the Iliad and described by Homer‚ the author of the Iliad. The Iliad shows the history and brutality of the warfare
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Socrates ask Diotima who was his father and who was his mother? Diotima goes on to explain that it’s a long story but she’ll tell him anyway. She starts by saying "When Aphrodite was born‚ the gods held a feast‚ among them Plenty‚ The son of Neverataloss. When they had dined‚ Poverty came in begging‚ as might be expected with all that good cheer‚ and hung about the doors. Plenty then got drunk on the nectarfor there was
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Zeus by the name of Jupiter‚ and Aphrodite by the name of Venus‚ for example. The Roman names are often better known to English-speaking people than the Greek names (Wikipedia)." For the Greeks brought along all of the mythology and created the stories that beliefs are built on and so the Romans took those stories and put their own twist on them with the same morals and changed the names to correlate with the names of Roman origin. "The Roman version of Aphrodite was Venus. The Roman version of Ares
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