seen‚ but for the purpose of comfort for the dead. Sometimes they were even a form of communication between us and the gods. However‚ in this new world of Greece‚ I have learned that art is for expression‚ and they seem to appreciate and value life. Greeks have figured out movement and are honest to the human forms in art‚ unlike back home. They smoothly cut away from marble stones and consistently use a contrapposto stance. Back home in Egypt‚ we used a lot of diorite and limestone statues and our
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Patrick Dyer November 9th‚ 2012 CLS 250 The Double Standards of Homeric Greek Women Odysseus was considered to be the epitome of what a Greek man should strive to be. He was a courageous and clever warrior who earned arête through his feats during the Trojan War. The ancient Achaean male modeled themselves after great men like Odysseus‚ but the real question is who do Greek woman model themselves after. Clytemnestra’s plight and eventual death is a perfect example of how married women were
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Mitch For some people violence isn’t the answer‚ but in the roman’s case it worked pretty well.The Romans‚ who were on ef the greatest groups of warriors‚ managed to keep their reign for 507 years. They didn’t do this by sitting around in a castle all day. Rome avoided being attacked by beating the enemy to the attack. One example of Roman violence in all three Punic wars‚ Rome declared rome on Carthage and didn’t leave them alone until 3 wars later when most of the Carthaginians were killed‚ and
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|Greek Theatre |The origins of drama started with hymns called ‘dithyrambs’ and were| |‘Drama’ comes from the Greek word ‘Dran’ meaning ‘to do’ |sung in worship of the god ‘Dionysus’. | |‘Theatre’ comes from the Greek word ‘Theatron’ meaning ‘the seeing |The hymns progressed to ‘choral’ (group of people) processions. This| |place’ |progressed
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Senate with my partner Christopher. Now tell us what is the announcement from the Senate? Christopher: Well the Roman army needs some support to be a bigger empire. Cristina: But why should you join the army. Well because of lots of reasons. Christopher. Well it is my belief that you can protect your family and your properties so they will be always safe. In other words the romans give you security to your land and you can also give them because by defending your country you are also defending
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almost completely low of nutrients and such from tons of farming. Then again the Empire was around a few million people‚ which means that there was probably a lot of farming going on. Most of these farmers moved west into the vast territory of the Roman Empire(Goldsmith). During this slow decline in the Empire‚ Caesar made a lot of new rules and did some pretty weird things. For one‚ he passed a law allowing men to meet in bars and anywhere else to discuss whatever they felt like talking about. After
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Pandora was a character in Greek myths that was utilized to explain the events that brought death and evil into the world. Pandora was created by the god Hephaestus under Zeus’ command. Because Prometheus had given humans fire‚ Zeus wanted to create her as punishment. When Pandora was made‚ she was given numerous gifts from all the gods; some of these gods were good and some of them were evil. These gifts included beauty‚ charm‚ music‚ and curiosity. Therefore‚ when Zeus presented Pandora to Prometheus’
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Europe: The Greeks Contents » 1. Introduction 2. Structure of Government 3. Militaristic Focuses 4. Judgment and views of Women 5. Post-dinner social gatherings 6. Conclusion 7. Notes Introduction Spartan and Athenian society were very different in many aspects. However‚ at the same time‚ the two shared a myriad of characteristics in common. The differences are what set the two apart‚ while the things they shared in common are what united them as Greek city-states
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desires for their outcomes as well as others that they came across. Now‚ the main question that comes to mind when considering justice in the Greek world is‚ what did it mean to them and how did it change? Overall there was little to no change to the definition of justice‚ just the blurring of lines between it and revenge. Revenge seemed to be what the Greek writers considered to be justice‚ as long as they were even with whoever wronged them‚ and then they were completely whole. The exploration
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Greek Classicism Greek Civilization: • Greek sages concluded “Man is the measure of all things.” • Greeks supremely self-confident and self-aware • Greeks developed this concept of human supremacy and responsibility into a worldview that demanded a new visual expression in art. • Artists studied human beings intensely‚ than distilled their newfound knowledge to capture in their art works the essence of humanity—a term that‚ by the Greeks’ definition‚ applied only to those who spoke Greek; they
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