CHAPTER 3 The Female Divine THE GREAT GODDESS Was There a Great Goddess? During the last century and a half‚ numerous and seemingly related prehistoric artifacts depicting female figures have been found in a wide range from France to Siberia and as far south as Greece. Among these ancient objects are engravings‚ statuettes‚ and relief carvings‚ dating anywhere from 30‚000 to 5‚000 bce‚ some of which are adorned with designs such as crescents‚ spirals‚ triangles‚ meanders‚ egg shapes‚ and
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ARTEMIS was the great Olympian goddess of hunting‚ wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth‚ and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage. Her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bringers of sudden death and disease--Artemis targetted women and girls‚ and Apollon men and boys. In ancient art Artemis was usually depicted as a girl dressed in a short knee-length chiton and equipped with a hunting
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Lol I got this from wiki but yolo am I right? Ancient Greece From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Page semi-protected The Parthenon‚ a temple dedicated to Athena‚ located on the Acropolis in Athens‚ is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks. Part of a series on the History of Greece Part of a map of the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent regions by William Faden‚ March 1785 Greek Bronze Age[show] Ancient Greece[show] Medieval Greece[show] Modern
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information provided by http://faculty.gvsu.edu/webssterm/ways.htm (not written by member of this website) Ways of Interpreting Myth (LINKS) In a recent article on flood myths‚ Alan Dundes wrote: "Theories of myth interpretation may be roughly divided into two major groupings: literal and symbolic. Literalists tend to seek factual or historical bases for a given mythological narrative while advocates of one the many symbolic approaches prefer to regard the narrative as a code requiring some
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THE PARTHENON AND THE ELGIN MARBLES BY EPAMINONDAS VRANOPOULOS Athens 1985 PREFACE The response to the Greek government’s demand for the return to Greece of the sculptures of the Parthenon‚ now in the British Museum‚ has been so encouraging that it has given rise to hopes that the Elgin Marbles‚ as they have come to be known‚ may indeed one day be restored to their rightful home. The favourable response has come from UNESCO and from public opinion world-wide‚ including Britain.
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Extra credit due Thursday April 17th Double spaced‚ 5 pages‚ 3 scholarly articles Roman gods and Ovid Intro Greek and roman equivalents Aphrodite-Venus Ares-Mars Artemis-Diana Athena-Minerva Demeter-Ceres Hades-Pluto Hephaistos-Vulcan Hera-Juno Hermes-Mercury Hestia-Vesta Kronos-Saturn Persephone-Proserpina Poseidon-Neptune Zeus-Jupiter(Jove) Eris-Discordia Eros-Cupid Ovid the Poet Born 43 BC His first poems appeared in 20 BC Completed the metamorphoses in 8 AD Timeless
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A History of Ancient Greece The Greek Genius Author: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 The Greeks were the first to formulate many of the Western world’s fundamental concepts in politics‚ philosophy‚ science‚ and art. How was it that a relative handful of people could bequeath such a legacy to civilization? The definitive answer may always elude the historian‚ but a good part of the explanation lies in environmental and social factors. Unlike the Near Eastern monarchies‚ the polis was not
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REPULIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ST.CAMILLUS COLLEGE OF MANAOAG Brgy. Licsi‚ Manaoag‚ Pangasinan ROSELYN A. BAGTULAY MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE BEED IV THE TITANS AND THE TWELVE GREAT OLYMPIANS The Titans‚ often called the Elder Gods‚ were for untold ages supreme in the universe. They were of enonnous size and of incredible strength. There were many of them‚ but only a few appear in the stories of mythology. The most important was CRONUS‚ in Latin SATURN. He ruled over the other Titans until
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James Ussher (sometimes spelled Usher‚ 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific scholar‚ who most famously published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday‚ 23 October 4004 BC‚ according to the proleptic Julian calendar.In 1619 Ussher travelled to England‚ where he remained for two years. His only child‚ Elizabeth‚ was born in London
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T.S. Eliot "The Fire Sermon" An analysis of the poem focusing on the elements of nature Joachim TRAUN 0004165 301/341 "It is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling" (T.S. Eliot on "The Waste Land") Table of contents page 1. Introduction 4 2. T.S. Eliot- a brief biography 4 3. The fire sermon 5 3.1 Structure 6 3.2 Intertextuality 6 3.3 Interpretation 8 3.3.1 Water 8 3.3.2 City 11 3.3.3 Fusion 13 4. Conclusion 14 Bibliography 1. Introduction There are not many poems
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