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    The Temple of Vesta

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    personne à qui le temple a été consacre: Tiburnus ou Albunea ou Hercules LE TEMPLE DE LA SYBILLE Il est un temple romain. Il est rectangulaire Il est datant du 2eme siecle avant J.C. Au cours du Moyen âge il a été utilisé comme eglise dediée à Saint George Il est construit entièrement n travertin Il y a deux colonnes d’ordre ionique On n’est pas encore certain de la personne à qui le temple a été consacre: Tiburnus ou Albunea ou Hercules TEMPIO DI VESTA Si tratta di un tempio romano. E ’rotondo

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    Odysseus: the Anti-Hero

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    Odysseus: The Anti-Hero Throughout Homer’s epic The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is a hero. In all myths and legends‚ a hero combats the “monsters.” In the typical story a hero is unselfish and fights to protect his people while the monsters are greedy powerful things that antagonize the people. Yet despite this typical storyline‚ if we read closely‚ we may conclude that Odysseus is actually the oppressive hero in many of these situations – provoking the “monsters” into fighting. The “monsters” in the Odyssey

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    Life before the European Renaissance was forlorn. There was little hope for a happy existence during the Dark Ages. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were manifesting throughout Europe. After the Roman Empire fell‚ there was little to no stability in Europe’s society besides the corrupt Roman Catholic Church. Famine hit northern Europe especially hard and the Black Death spread like wildfire killing an estimated 25 million individuals. Feudalism was the dominant government throughout Europe and

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    lost all respect for the authority of his Greek leaders because they exiled him on a mountain for 10 years. In the end Sophocles addresses respect of authority when the image of Hercules that appears to tell the men they must work together in order to win the Trojan War. Both men have great respect for the warrior Hercules. They will honor his wishes because of the respect that they have for him. I do not believe that Confucianism is based on individualism. Individualism is about asserting independence

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    not uncommon before the eruption many gods such as Dionysus (roman name Bacchus) and Hercules were worshiped through temples and‚ frescos and statues; most Roman deities were based on the 12 major Greek gods for example The patron Goddess of Pompeii ‚ Venus was based on the Greek goddess Aphrodite. There are many primary sources and evidence from the town of Herculaneum a fresco (primary source) named “Hercules and Omphale” were found in the Villa Of Mysteries‚ this is a confirmation of Greek influence

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    Herakles‚ later known by the Romans as Hercules‚ is one of the most well-known mythological beings in all of the ancient world and the world today. He was a half-man and half-god‚ being the son of Zeus and a mortal woman. The story of the mortal god Herakles‚ is one of great tragedy and redemption. When the jealous wife of Zeus‚ Hera‚ still cannot forgive her husband for the adultery he committed‚ she sends Herakles insane and causes him to unwilling kill his wife and children. Following that tragic

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    Liger

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    LIGER The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress (Panthera tigris). Thus‚ it has parents with the same genus but of different species. It is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon. It is the largest of all known extant felines. Ligers enjoy swimming‚ which is a characteristic of tigers‚ and are very sociable like lions. Ligers exist only in captivity because the habitats of the parental species do not overlap in the wild. Historically‚ when the Asiatic Lion was

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    Hephaestus‚ the Greek god of fire‚ is most revered for his master craftsmanship. In works of art he is usually depicted as a middle-aged smith working in his forge‚ often making a thunderbolt for Zeus. Born of Hera alone‚ he was cast down as a baby from Olympus by his mother for his defective ugliness and fell for a whole day before he hit the ground. Nine years after he was thrown from the heavens‚ he returned to Olympus and became one of the twelve Olympian Gods. With Zeus’s favor‚ he was able

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    surrounding Andromeda is a Greek myth. She was a young‚ beautiful princess that was to be sacrificed to a sea monster to repent for her father’s crimes. She was chained to a rock by the ocean in an attempt to attract the sea monster. The young hero Perseus was returning from his quest to kill the beast Medusa when he saw her about to be killed‚ and swooped in to kill the sea monster. He rescued Andromeda

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    Howard Hughes Essay

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    classes at the California Institute of Technology. Then he enrolled in the now-called Rice University. Hughes is best known as an aviation genius‚ because of all of his the designs‚ ideas‚ and invention of airplanes. He is famous for the H-4 Hercules‚ also known as the “Spruce Goose”‚ and is also known because of his eccentric behavior. He set many world records while flying that seemed unreachable in his time. On September 13‚ 1935‚ he set a new speed record aboard his H-1 Racer by setting a

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