3.5 Athena and Aphrodite as role models for female empowerment Can Athena and Aphrodite be considered as empowering role models for women? Athena frequently chooses to assist males over women or disguise herself as a man (Deacy 2008:37)‚ “Athena‚ daughter of Zeus came near them‚ making herself resemble Mentor in appearance and voice” (Hom.Od.22.205-10). There are many examples of women in myth suffering at Athena’s hands. Arachne was turned into a spider for challenging the goddess‚ Murmix was transformed
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Humanities Midterm Exam Study Guide Ancient Religion Polytheistic Mainly Gods were immortal but have human forms & personalities Early Sculptures Willendorf Woman Standing Man Mesopotamia Modern Day Iran “Land between rivers.” Agriculture was fully developed here first Beginning of Bronze Age Different Civilizations Sumerians King Gilgamesh Had city-states Each city-state had its own ruler and god King served as intermediary between local god and people Buildings clustered around
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As the course textbook states‚ "the arts give form to what is imagined‚ express human beliefs and emotions" (xv) and "for the majority of their history‚ artists have expressed the dominant beliefs of a culture" (xv). When studying the humanities‚ you can examine written works‚ musical works‚ works of art‚ and architecture to get a sense of what the creators of those works and the cultures from which those creators came believed. Much of this involves placing these artifacts into the context of what
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accustomed to‚ the music has tone and follows a beat or rhythm and does not just fire off at random. While the sounds of most of the planets have very similar characteristics‚ Saturn and Venus sound completely unique. Saturn has a high pitch ringing that sounds like it came straight out of a horror movie soundtrack and Venus has a very low pitch tribalistic horn sound to it. Although it is not complete common knowledge yet‚ the planets in the solar system make their own
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A Comparative Study of the Shield of Achilles and the Shield of Aeneas In Homer’s great work‚ the Iliad‚ Achilles is given a set of armor‚ including a glorious shield which allows him to return to battle and carry out his revenge against Hector. Likewise‚ in Virgil’s Aeneid‚ Aeneas is sent a shield for the purpose of aiding him in defending Rome from invasion. However‚ these shields are made special not by their military value‚ but by the engravings that decorate their surfaces. Achilles’
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Question: Comfort or Confusion? Explain which emotion you think a Roman was more likely to feel in a society which has many gods. In a society with many gods‚ a roman citizen might feel confused as there are too many gods to pray‚ please and respect (polytheistic)‚ e.g. Jupiter the king of Gods. (Who’s responsibility is being God of sky and thunder) Roman citizens would have been powerless against the Gods as if they dishonoured a God‚ they would be punished‚ so they continuously prayed to the
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of Jupiter‚ and Aphrodite by the name of Venus‚ for example. The Roman names are often better known to English-speaking people than the Greek names (Wikipedia)." For the Greeks brought along all of the mythology and created the stories that beliefs are built on and so the Romans took those stories and put their own twist on them with the same morals and changed the names to correlate with the names of Roman origin. "The Roman version of Aphrodite was Venus. The Roman version of Ares is Mars. The Roman
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1. Name of site: The Self-Help Guide to Wagner What it contained: This site explained who Wagner was and his contribution to classical music. What I learned: Richard Wagner was a controversial composure that made lasting changes to the musical arts. He felt that drama should be enjoyed in the dark so he suggested lowering the lights prior to a performance; a custom we still practice today. He also “exploded” the music theater making it much bigger‚ which would have increased the feel and ferocity
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This discovery came as a shock‚ both to conventional science and to the Church. And then‚ in January 1610‚ Galileo’s telescope revealed four of the nine moons of Jupiter; these moons "move... around another very great star (Venus)‚" he wrote‚ in the same way as Mercury and Venus‚ and peradventure the other known planets‚ move around the sun." At the time‚ most scientists believed that the Moon was a smooth sphere‚ but Galileo discovered that the Moon has mountains‚ pits‚ and other features‚ just like
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Earth’s life had just begun and there was only one being on earth which was known as Makuahine. Makuahine was originally born on the planet venus but was sent to planet earth because she was a mix of a god and a human. The people on the planet venus could not comprehend someone being a demigod so they sent her to a new planet they knew nothing about which was earth. Makuahine had very dark skin‚ it was so dark it glowed and in the sun she sparkled. While walking among earth the sun’s heat made
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