Jessica Smith Professor Lloyd Davies ENG 385‚ 002 20 February 2014 Aeneas and the Shade of Dido In Book VI of Virgil’s The Aeneid‚ Aeneas descends into the Underworld alongside the priestess Sybil. During this journey‚ Aeneas is instilled with more humanity than when he first appears‚ and his encounter with Dido in the Fields of Mourning shows this. A seemingly heartless man whom did not soften his leave from Dido is broken down into tears during his reunification. While Aeneas takes
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I‚ Gaius Terentius Varro was made commander for this battle at Cannae and have failed miserably‚ us Romans entered the battle outnumbering Hannibal’s army and his allies‚ but left leaving many murdered Roman men behind on the battlefield including my colleague Lucius Aemilius Paullus. The Carthaginian general‚ Hannibal has completely annihilated us. He has outsmarted us Romans. But alas‚ this was not my fault‚ we were not meant to win‚ there were too many aspects of this battle that were not in our
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The respective form of government of Rome and Carthage has an "outward similarity" in terms of structure. If Rome has two consuls‚ Carthage on other hand has two chief magistrates called as suffetes. Carthaginians have also a legislative body such like the Roman Senate which is called the hundreds or "the counsel of thirty Nobles" (Mackay‚ 1999). In addition‚ it has also a citizen assembly similar to Rome’s comitia (Moray‚1901). In governmental organization the two two great nations were parallel
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************ CPAL PD.2 Response #2 May 24th 2013 Medea and Dido “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” (Bruce Lee para. 1). Love can burn. Whether the burn is pleasant or ruthless is for your own experience. However‚ two women in the ancient societies can demonstrate the uglier side of love quite easily. The women are Medea and Dido. They each fall in love with great heros with the help of gods‚ and each of them made great sacrifices for
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Maximilian Otto Bismarck Caspari wrote of him: - “As to the transcendent military genius of Hannibal there cannot be two opinions. The man who for fifteen years could hold his ground in a hostile country against several powerful armies and a succession of able generals must have been a commander and a tactician of supreme capacity” Robert Garland - Though this claim may seem questionable to our post Hanibalic world‚ It was moreover the experience of the Second Punic War the first stimulated
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This selection of Didion’s writing evolves from her discussing the circumstances and events around John’s‚ her husband’s‚ death to her coping with Quintana’s seemingly never ending illness. This selection of the book also cover’s Didion’s battle with the “vortex.” The vortex consists of the memories that Didion finds herself trapped in. Even the most mundane tasks will remind her of her memories with John or Quintana. This results in her spending chunks of her time dwelling in the past as though
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3/16/12 Ibrahim Hannibal Ibrahim Hannibal was born in Lagon‚ northern Ethiopia. He was born in 1697 and died on May 14‚ 1781 in Suida‚ or present-day Leningrad Oblast. He was the son of an Ethiopian prince and was taken hostage by the Arab slave traders. He was then shipped to Moscow in 1706 where he was sold into slavery and Tsar Peter (a.k.a. Peter the Great) and his wife (Christina Queen of Poland) adopted him. They got him baptized when he was eight years old and instead of treating Hannibal
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In the year 218 BCE‚ Hannibal and his military travelled across the Alps‚ leading his greatest weapon – war elephants‚ something no one else had accomplished. Hannibal had overcome the impossible‚ training elephants who have sensitive hearing‚ to become powerful weapons during battle. Hearing the plans of Gaius Flaminius‚ Hannibal a followed‚ eventually overtaking the Roman troops. After Hannibal and his army‚ who he lead through the extensive Alps‚ earned victory during the ’Battle of Trebia’; the
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attributed to a lot of things‚ it should be said that the governments of both Rome and Carthage played crucial roles in their success. This wasn’t much about luck as it was about finding the right balance of bureaucracy. Here I will explore if both governments were built off of the same governmental structure‚ or if they were made up of architectures as different as their powers. The All-Powerful In Carthage‚ the most authoritative bureaucrats were annually a pair of elected magistrates known
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Rome and Carthage were quite similar in many ways‚ they both started as a colony or outpost of another city-state (Rom from Latium‚ possibly Alba Longa and Carthage from Phoenician Tyre) (Morey‚ 1901a; Morey‚ 1901b)‚ both were strong powers within the Mediterranean‚ and both had very similar governments. Our text specifically points out the similarities in government between the two city-states. "[Carthage] had two chief magistrates (called suffetes)‚ corresponding to the Roman consuls. It had a
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