White horse (mythology) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The 3‚000-year-old Uffington White Horse hill figure in England. White horses (which are rarer than other colours of horse) have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot‚[1] with warrior-heroes‚ with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations)‚ or with an end-of-time saviour‚ but other interpretations exist as well.
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‘lawgiver’ was a god like figure who was constantly recreated why things were as they were -Anything associated with his name become holy -To Spartans Lycurgus was a god who gave them a way of life which was divinely inspired and divinity sanctioned -Herodotus tells us that the oracle of Apollo at Delphi was believed to have recognised Lycurgus divinity and notes that after Lycurgus death a temple was built in his
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Ancient Greek Cultural Values (Fiero 76-136) rational explanations experiential extensions Pericles’ Funeral Speech (88-89) the Iliad (81-84) Aristotle’s Poetics (99) the Antigone (92-98) Plato’s Crito (102-104) Sappho’s poems (128) Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (104-107) Pindar’s Odes (128) Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (109-110) Vitruvius on Symmetry (114-116) * * * * *
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in animals when in act of survival is necessary. The practice of cannibalism reaches back into ancient times and has been found in many areas of the world. Evidence indicates that it may have been practiced as early as the Neolithic Period. Herodotus the Greek historian and other ancient writers gave accounts of various ancient people as being cannibals. Marco Polo reported tribes ranging from Tibet to Sumatra who practiced cannibalism. North American Indian tribes of the western coast of the
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a form of "cranial stuffing" of sorts. In ancient Egypt‚ from the late Middle Kingdom onwards‚ in preparation for mummification‚ the brain was regularly removed‚ for it was the heart that was assumed to be the seat of intelligence. According to Herodotus‚ during the first step of mummification: "The most perfect practice is to extract as much of the brain as possible with an iron hook‚ and what the hook cannot reach is mixed with drugs." Over the next five thousand years‚ this view came to be reversed;
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There are more than 130 ancient pyramids in Egypt‚ but the three pyramids at Giza dwarf the rest in comparison. Historians and archaeologists have been deeply fascinated by these structures for centuries. Many theories have been proposed in regards to who the people to construct these towering monuments were. A popular theory stemming from the Bible is that Israeli slaves‚ kept in harsh conditions by the pharaoh’s men‚ were forced to haul the giant stones used to construct the pyramids. The scale
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in ancient Greece but in Egypt‚ and they date back till as early as 4000 B.C. in examples of drama such as the Pyramid Texts (Freedley‚ 1941: 2). We can even directly link Egyptian and Greek performance by noting that a historian of the theatre‚ Herodotus‚ recorded “the religious festivals and the origin of the worship of Dionysos(sic) which was later to be transferred to the dramatic festivals in Greece” (Freedley‚ 1941: 1). This suggests that theatre as we know it actually finds its roots in ancient
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There are an enormous amount of people in this world that we live in. All of these people belong to different cultures and societies. Each society has traits and customs that make it different from any other. Every society has their own way of looking at and dealing with certain situations. "Different societies have different moral codes" (Rachels 618). This claim is known as Cultural Relativism. "Cultural Relativism‚ as it has been called‚ challenges our ordinary belief in the objectivity and universality
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Aesop’s Timeless Literature “Rarely does a work of art bear such relevance to human existence” (Gal). Aesop‚ a greek slave that eventually was freed‚ created a multitude of fables that all had one thing in common; conveying a moral to the reader. The fables near their creation were originally orated by Aesop on his travels throughout the ancient world. As the fables continued with their rise in popularity‚ it began to affect the greek society. Even more‚ traces of the morals taught in Aesop’s fables
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