Title: Plate depicting the story of Perseus and Andromeda (1524) Artist: Nicola da Urbino Collection: Italian Renaissance This plate illustrates the story of the valiant hero Perseus (a demigod) as he saves the princess Andromeda from a sea monster. The greek myth says that Andromeda’s mother had said that her daughter’s beauty was greater than that of Poseidon’s companions. An angry Poseidon‚ sent off a sea monster to their land. The plate shows Andromeda chained up to a tree‚ the sea monster at
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Egypt is well-known to be the site of a powerful early civilization. It wasn’t always the famous pyramidal empire‚ first it was a collection of villages divided into upper and lower Egypt. Upper Egypt was south and lower Egypt was north‚ since the Nile river runs north. A man named Narmer united both parts of the country‚ creating the great Egyptian empire. Ancient Egyptian history can be divided into three distinct kingdoms: the old‚ middle and new kingdoms. The old kingdom began with Narmer
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Tutankhamun’s tomb‚ some of which revealed important information on Tutankhamun’s different roles as a pharaoh. Source B shows a gilded statue of the pharaoh standing on a boat with a spear in his hand‚ preparing to harpoon a hippopotamus. This source is a representation of Tutankhamun’s role as a lawmaker and judge. The pharaoh is represented as the incarnation of the god Horus‚ who according to legend‚ fought in the swamps against the evil god Seth. Seth is the ancient Egyptian god of chaos‚ who was transformed
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Bastet was a prominent goddess figure in ancient Egypt around 3000 B.C. She was represented as hybrid of a woman with the head of a cat‚ or sometimes simply a cat that held her Ka. Her main role was that of a guardian‚ protecting others from diseases and evil spirits. Bastet originated during the old kingdom and her previous form was a lioness warrior called Bast‚ the goddess of warfare. The new kingdom after the war brought on a change to the goddess by transitioning her lion head into that of
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art c. 3500 – 30 BC • Ancient Egyptian civilization‚ like the civilizations of Sumer and the Indus Valley‚ grew up along a great river (Nile) that provided irrigation for agriculture and also a thoroughfare for transport of men and materials. • Largely a desert country crossed on a SN axis by the Nile river Nile: • Central role in Egyptian economy • Annual floods –constant & dependable occurrence (the flood water carried rich slit which was eventually deposited over the
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Government Every complex civilization has a well organized government.The Ancient Egyptian government was heavily influenced by religion. Pharaoh’s jobs were to create laws and rules‚ but they didn’t only do that and also chose what gods they had to worship.The Egyptians thought that the Pharaoh was thought to be part god‚ so the Pharaoh had to communicate to the gods and depending where the town was then that is what god they had to honor. I most laws when you break a law then your whole
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subdued enemy‚ showing that he and his army are superior. Art was also used to portray images of power and authority in the times of Ancient Egypt. This is shown in the Statue of Khafre. On the seat Khafre is sitting in there is an image of intertwined lotus and papyrus which symbolizes united Egypt. The falcon covering his head is Horus‚ the god the sky and heavens. This implies the pharaoh ’s divine status. The pharaoh is also shaped with a canon of ideal proportions‚ which is suitable for someone
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qualities in the statues. The statue of Khafre and Akhenaton reflects the political and religious climates of their time through the use of medium which symbolized the pharaoh’s eternal life and timelessness‚ and through formal qualities which symbolized the hidden religious meanings inside the sculpture. The seated statue of Khafre reflects the political and religious climates of his time through the statue’s medium‚ function‚ formal qualities of design‚ and iconography. The statue is made of diorite
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of Eastern yoga and Western ceremonial magick. This "New Age"‚ technically titled the Aeon of Horus‚ placed the Hawk-Headed Sun God of Ancient Egypt on the throne of the earth to replace the old God‚ Osiris. The formula of Osiris‚ the Egyptian God of the Dead‚ is Love‚ Death & Resurrection: the way of the dying and resurrected god of which Jesus of Nazareth is an excellent example. The formula of Horus (or Ra-Hoor-Khuit‚ as He calls
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important episodes from the mythic past are the creation myths‚ in which the gods form the universe out of primordial chaos; the stories of the reign of the sun god Ra upon the earth; and the Osiris myth‚ concerning the struggles of the gods Osiris‚ Isis‚ and Horus against the disruptive god Set. Events from the present that might be regarded as myths include Ra’s daily journey through the world and its otherworldly counterpart‚ the Duat. Recurring themes in these mythic episodes include the conflict between
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