Monologue- an Athenian Man Fed up of the dark‚ tossing sea I was keen to lay down our spoils at the foot of Apollo in dedication‚ already planning the arrangements of invitations‚ wine and Hetari for the feast I would give out in celebration of my homecoming. Wearied by the hills of Cerata‚ wetted with blood- a righteous token of the brute treachery of our Megarian allies‚ our trireme Aianteia‚ was pulled with steady shoulders‚ the eretai crying “rhup-pa-pai” as‚ skirting the moles‚ we made for
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Jared Diamond* May 1987 Illustrations by Elliott Danfield To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren’t specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular‚ recent
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mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity‚ enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance | Kallikrates‚ Iktinos‚ Publius‚ Vespasian | Parthenon‚ Colosseum‚ Pantheon | Early Christian and Medieval | Medieval architecture is a term used to represent various forms of architecture popular in Medieval Europe. | Pietro Baseggio‚Bernard de Soissons‚Diogo de Boitaca | Abbey of Saint-Denis‚ Salisbury
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How important was Polykleitos to the Development of the Kouros? In fifth century Greek free-standing sculpture Polykleitos and his works the Diadoumenos (430BCE) and the Doryphoros (440BCE) (which were originally bronze) are important in demonstrating the development of the Kouros as they highlight a great level of development in terms of the naturalism of a‚ sculpture‚ through the use of contrapposto and application of the ‘Cannon of Proportion’ which is attributed to Polykleitos. Whereas Polykleitos’
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Mythology The word myth on this century is used to identify a story of some sort. Which usually is a fiction story stating it is not real? “It’s a myth” means that it is not a fictional story‚ it is sort of like a rumor no one really knows if it truly happened or not. In contrast‚ the word myth in academic context is used as follows; a myth is a form of story that did or did not happened in ancient times. To me a myth is a story that is told to children to either scare them or make them feel like
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Rust is an iron oxide‚ usually red oxide formed by the redox reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Several forms of rust are distinguishable both visually and by spectroscopy‚ and form under different circumstances.Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3·nH2O and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH)‚ Fe(OH)3). Given sufficient time‚ oxygen‚ and water‚ any iron mass will eventually convert entirely to rust and disintegrate. Surface rust is flaky and friable‚
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Polykleitos‚ a Greek sculptor from the mid-fifth century BCE‚ revolutionized the way sculptures were created thereafter by revealing a new way to look at the human figure. After receiving his education in Argos‚ a school in Greece (Kleiner‚ Mamiya 133)‚ Polykleitos entered a sculpting contest to create an Amazon for the temple of Artemis at Ephesos. Phidias‚ who was famed for his contribution to Greek sculpture‚ had also entered the contest and lost to his younger rival‚ Polykleitos. After this competition
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Global Culture (A block) Peter Qiu John Baker 10/27/2016 Rough Draft Athens was the largest city in Greece‚ located at the Attica peninsula. The name Athens was come from the Goddess of Athena‚ who is the protector of Athens. Between the mountains were fertile valleys‚ with many farms. Athens became rich because Attica also had valuable sources of various types of material‚ which allowed them to trade with other city-states (Ancient Greece:Athens‚ source 5). As the ancestor of modern democracy‚ Athenian
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goddess. The fact that the ancient Greeks created these temples for this purpose shows the great importance of worshipping and pleasing the gods and goddesses. One example of a great ancient Greek temple dedicated to a certain god or goddess is The Parthenon of Greece‚ built on the Acropolis in Athens. This temple is dedicated solely to the goddess Athena. Another great detail that reveals much about the religious factors of this society would be the inscriptions found on the walls of these temples and
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Each culture has different aesthetic values and things they do during recreation.These things depend on the culture‚ religion‚ and environment. Some major things that most cultures have for aesthetic values are instruments‚ drama‚ and temples. Still‚ all aesthetic values are important to all civilizations. There are many instruments that people play in their recreational time‚ and the types of instruments played usually depend on the surroundings‚ religion‚ culture‚ and the person themselves.
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