CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY CLAS C205 (23712) W 6:00-8:40pm Room: CA 235 IUPUI Fall 2014 Martina Dalinghaus‚ Program Director for Classical Studies email: mdalingh@iupui.edu Office: CA 543B; Phone: 278-3645 Office hours: MTR 9-11 am; W 4:30-5:30pm (and by appointment) Secretary (World Languages): Cavanaugh 545‚ 274-0062 Note: Please send all communications outside of office hours via email or Oncourse mail or leave urgent messages with secretary during business hours. COURSE OBJECTIVES This course provides
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Introduction Medicine has come a long way. The history of medicine‚ shows how societies have changed their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present. Early medical practices and texts include those of Egypt‚ Babylon‚ India‚ and China. The Greeks introduced the concepts of advanced medical ethics. The Hippocratic Oath was written in Greece in the 5th century BCE‚ and is a direct inspiration for oaths of office that physicians swear upon entry into the profession today. Egypt
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Hopeful Imagination Prophetic voices in Exile (Walter Brueggemann) A Book Review by PJ Shrestha METHODIST THEOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Lecturer: Prof. Lim Sang Kook Submission Date: 12/10/2012 HOPEFUL IMAGINATION: PROPHETIC VOICES IN EXILE Walter Brueggemann Fortress Press‚ 1986 In this book Walter Brueggemann looks at the three most prominent prophets during the period of the Jews’ exile in Babylon after and around the time of 587 B.C. What links Jeremiah‚ Ezekiel and 2nd Isaiah is that
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represented the city as a whole. Buildings depicted what the people thought was most significant in their city. In my interpretation paper‚ I will explain how each cities people believed they were the chosen ones. In Babylon during Ishtar Gate into Babylonian was built during the Neo-Babyolian time period . The original audience of this Gate were the civilians of the city of Babylon. These civilians social status were merchants of both sexes. In Babylon The Ishtar Gate was built to honor the goddess
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Many of the Babylonians were armed with bronze weapons‚ becausesince Babylon was in the Bronze age. Each soldier was equipped with a six foot spears as their main weapon‚ and a one -meter swords as a secondary weapons for close combat. They also wore bronze armor‚ that
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Mayan Mathematics In our modern world‚ one can argue that mathematics is a universal language. Numbers have been recorded in various forms throughout time. For example‚ the Babylonians used marks pressed in clay; the Egyptians used papyrus ink brushes to create tally marks; and the Maya introduced a symbol for zero. All these ancient peoples used numerals or written symbols to express what they meant mathematically. They developed their own numeration system‚ which is a collection of uniform symbols
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successful empire to last beyond a generation and see the peaceful succession of kings. The empire was relatively short-lived‚ as the Babylonians conquered them within only a few generations. Kings Further information: Sumerian King List‚ List of kings of Babylon and List of Assyrian kings The Mesopotamians believed their kings and queens were descended from the City of Gods‚ but‚ unlike the ancient Egyptians‚ they never believed their kings were real gods.[39] Most kings named themselves
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working with circles for the same amount of time. Civilizations as old as the Babylonians have been able to approximate pi to many digits‚ such as the fraction 25/8 and 256/81. Most historians believe that ancient Egyptians had no concept of π and that the correspondence is a coincidence.[4] The first written reference to it dates to 1900 BC.[5] Around 1650 BC the Egyptian Ahmes gave a value in the Rhind Papyrus. The Babylonians were able to find that the value of pi was slightly greater than 3 by simply
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a lot of them have survived there were many individual stories about his exploit those stories where passed on through succeeding civilization so the one the Sumerian were overrun by the Akkadian‚ and the Akkadian were overrun by the Babylonians‚ and the Babylonians were overrun by the Assyrian. Each one of them took the story over and retold it to themselves it even made it outside the middle east into places like Asia miner with the Hittite and places like Syria but it is survived through many
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Being one of the oldest monotheistic religions‚ Zoroastrianism began in ancient Persia‚ sometime around 1500 to 1200BC‚ by Zoroaster who believed that there was only one god Ormazd or Ahura Mazda which means "Wise Lord." 38 There exist many similarities between Zoroastrianism and Judaism. To start with both Ahura Mazda and God were not created and both have been described as omniscient‚ omnipresent‚ eternal and endowed with creative powers. Ahura Mazda used six Spenta Mainyu or "Holy Spirits"
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