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    The Roman Pantheon consisted of many beings. The Romans conceived the gods in visual terms. The Roman’s had many gods‚ but little fixed doctrine. In the Pantheon Jupiter was the king of all the gods‚ Juno was the queen of the gods. Their kids were Vulcan‚ Mars‚ Minerva‚ and Bacchus. Pluto and Neptune were the brothers of Jupiter. Jupiter was the god of the sky‚ Neptune was the god of the sea‚ and Pluto was the god of dead. They worked together to kill their father Saturn. With several gods the

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    events with the inevitable result. Virgil uses the idea of fate to narrate and advance through his epic poem‚ but perhaps also to illustrate that the gods had originally intended for Rome to become a great and powerful empire. The king of gods‚ Jupiter‚ has chosen Aeneas and his preordained path to destiny‚ by leading the Trojans and creating the foundations for the Roman Empire. However‚ a variety of gods interfere with Aeneas’s direction of fate in order to satisfy their own desires‚ only to discover

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    observance of public religious obligations. Religious influence - Brought 43 years of peace which he used for the establishment of religious worship and cultivation. - Created priestly and religious orders to Jupiter and Mars as well as other gods. o Mars: God of war o Jupiter: God of Sky/thunder - He created a religious figurehead called the pontifex maximus and to this day that title is still used by the Pope. o pontifex maximus  high priest of the College of Pontiffs ancient Rome

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    Young Discoverer Series UNIVERSE NICKNAMES OF PLANETS: Mercury – Speedy Messenger. Venus – Morning or Evening Star. Earth – The Blue Planet. Mars – The Red Planet. Jupiter – Jove or the Galilean System. Saturn – The Ringed Planet. Uranus – Father Sky. Neptune – The Windy Planet. Pluto – The Ice Planet. DEFINITIONS: STAR: A huge body made of hot luminous gas that is held together by its own gravity. Compared to other stars‚ our Sun is a star of average size and energy. PLANET: A large

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    SPH 4U Worksheet 1) A spring with spring constant 450 N/m is compressed 15cm and is used to fire a 5g plastic ball straight up in the air. Find: a) the launch speed b) the maximum height to which the ball rises 2) A pendulum with a mass of 50g on it at a height of 30cm is allowed to swing. At the bottom of its swing it strikes a horizontal spring that compresses 5cm in stopping the pendulum. What is: a) the spring constant? b) the speed of the pendulum bob when the spring is only compressed

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    aforementioned Goddesses‚ Bacchus has a rather tumultuous beginning to his being that precedes birth. According to myth‚ Jupiter‚ the King of the Gods‚ was caught being unfaithful to Juno‚ his wife‚ with a mortal named Semele. Juno tricked the impregnated Semele into looking at the god-form of Jupiter. Unable to withstand the power that was released‚ Semele died‚ prompting Jupiter to save the child by putting it in his thigh. Bacchus was then born out of Zeus’ thigh‚ and raised by Hermes‚ who hid

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    Theme: Glorification of Rome BOOK I * Explains Juno’s reason for hating the Trojans; it was predicted that ‘there was rising from the blood of Troy a race of men who in days to come would overthrow this Tyrian citadel; a people proud in war and rulers of a great empire’ (refers to Punic wars‚ three wars between Rome and Carthage from 264BC to 146BC) * Glorification of Rome * Role of Prophecy and Fate * Describing Neptune‚ Virgil uses the extended simile of the calming of the

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    Galileo Galilei is one of the most well known and popular scientist beside Albert Einstein. At the very basis of what he did‚ Galileo changed how people looked at the world around them especially the solar system. Eventually the church held a trial against Galileo on the act of heresy and attack on the Aristotelian idea of the universe as the church and many others believed that the earth was at the center of the solar system not the sun. He also had many inventions which helped future scientists

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    system consists of the Sun; the nine planets‚ 67 satellites of the planets and a large number of small bodies (comets and asteroids). The inner solar system contains the Sun‚ Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth and Mars. The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus and Neptune. Mercury – Mercury is named after the messenger of the Roman gods. It is the smallest of the inner planets and the second smallest in the whole Solar System. It has a very weak magnetic field and – being the closest planet

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    Authors in different time periods always interpret their idea in varies way. As for the creation myth‚ the Roman version is definitely different from the Greek one. In this paper‚ it will compare these two versions of the creation myth with each other to figure out what are the differences and similarities between Ovid’s Roman creation myth and Hesiod’s Greek creation myth. In addition‚ it will also discuss how the Ovid’s creation myth relates to his general approach to myth in the Metamorphoses

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