Stonehenge Stonehenge is a huge megalithic monument situated on Salisbury Plain‚ Mid-Wiltshire‚ England. The ruins of Stonehenge contain stones from three stages of building. These stages took place over a period of roughly 1600 years from 3100 BC to 1500 BC (Chippindale‚ 1983:271). Stonehenge has been severely damaged by things as different as tourists to weather. What it is today is quite different from what scientists suggest it may have looked like when it was finished (Fig1 and Fig2). Since
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Monumental architecture was an important facet of classical society. Not only would it exhibit the advances in culture that each society was making‚ but it was gave them a chance to show off their wealth‚ power‚ and creativity to other societies. These monuments often took the innovations and collaborations of the country’s top architects and builders to accomplish. They also exemplify the importance of the Mediterranean region in comparison to the world during the BC era and into early CE. First
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Lesson 3: CIVILIZATIONS OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST ESSAY 1: MINOAN AND MYCENEAN INFLUENCE ON ANCIENT GREECE HIST 119 While the masses of the ancient Near East endowed us with civilization‚ the Greeks supplied it with forms and meanings that compel us to look to them as the ancestors of our own culture‚ Western Civilization. Greek ability and vitality spread in diverse courses. Notable portions of our math and science bases plus the concept of scientific research and the procuring of knowledge
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protagonist really has some of these characteristics. In terms of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero‚ Electra is considered as a tragic hero. First‚ she is an individual of noble stature; she is a daughter of Agamemnon‚ King of Mycenae‚ and Clytemnestra‚ which makes her a royalty. Second is‚ he/ she is not perfect‚ hence the tragic flaw or hamartia. Electra’s tragic flaw would be her emotions. She is too emotional; she is overwhelmed by her feelings of revenge
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Troy and Sparta. Paris has fallen in love with Helen (Diane Kruger)‚ the wife of king Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson)‚ and smuggles her to Troy with him. Infuriated‚ Menelaus vows revenge. Menelaus approaches his brother Agamemnon (Brian Cox)‚ a king of Mycenae who has conquered every army of Greece‚ and now commands them. Agamemnon‚ who has wanted to conquer Troy for years (which would give him control of the Aegean Sea)‚ uses this as a justification to invade Troy. General Nestor (John Shrapnel) asks him
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treat Troy like allies since they’re located close to the border of the Mycenaean territory and happened to be fighting in the city itself causing all the violence. Now‚ archaeologists have found graves of Mycenaeans warriors in the citadel walls of Mycenae that has been buried with a great number of weapons‚ ceremonial
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is best known for playing a part in Hercules’ final labor. Hercules had to go to the Underworld and bring Cerberus back to the surface of the earth without using his arrows or his club. Hercules grabbed Cerberus by the throat and dragged him to Mycenae through a crack in the surface of the earth. Having accomplished this‚ Hercules dispatched Cerberus to guard one of the secret groves of Demeter but the dog eventually made his way back to Hades where he still guards the entrance. In another
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Greeks Brad Pitt as Achilles - Son of Peleus and Thetis. Leader of the Myrmidons. Diane Kruger as Helen - Queen of Sparta and wife of Menelaus. Lover of Paris. Brian Cox as Agamemnon - King of Mycenae. Brother of Menelaus. Sean Bean as Odysseus - King of Ithaca and friend of Achilles. Considered the most clever of the Greeks. Brendan Gleeson as Menelaus - King of Sparta and husband of Helen. Brother of Agamemnon. Tyler Mane as Ajax - King of Salamis. Second to Achilles among the
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young brother Paris negotiate peace between Troy and Sparta. Paris has fallen in love with Helen‚ the wife of king Menelaus‚ and smuggles her to Troy with him. Infuriated‚ Menelaus vows revenge. Menelaus approaches his brother Agamemnon‚ a king of Mycenae who has conquered every army of Greece‚ and now commands them. Agamemnon‚ who has wanted to conquer Troy for years (which would give him control of the Aegean Sea)‚ uses this as a justification to invade Troy. General Nestor asks him to take the legendary
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the Jews‚ they return to homeland. Old Testament first written. Chapter 6- Tyre and Sidon big traders of the World. Chapter 7- 1200 BC Cretans have built palaces etc. Crete has been destroyed. Greek tribes (Dorians‚ Ionians‚ Aeolians) conquer Mycenae. Dorians found Sparta. Ionians settle in Attica‚ found Athens. Chapter 8- 538 BC Cyrus’s son conquers Egypt. 490 BC Persians‚ under Darius‚ now have a huge empire. Attack Athens but are defeated. 480 BC Persians‚ under Darius’s son Xerxes‚ attack
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