after the Peloponnesian War: • Nature and impact of the Spartan hegemony; role and significance of Lysander‚ Agesilaus - Sparta won the Peloponnesian War. The war had ruined many states economically and spiritually. A true leader was needed. Thucydides believed Sparta would unite Greece and lead through goodwill. However‚ during the war Sparta had medised and sold the Ionian states to the Persians. Sparta could hardly claim to be the ‘liberator of the Greeks’. - Sparta had however earned the
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Pompeii and Herculaneum Public baths: * The people that had time for leisure‚ a visit to the baths were a regular social event. It was a place where people meet their friends‚ political allies and business associates. * It was in Campania that hot baths (thermae) were first developed. Pompeii had public baths as early as the 4th century BC‚ were as Rome did not have anything similar until the time of Augustus. * The Stabian baths at Pompeii are the earliest. Pompeii came to have many
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word is smong‚ while inSigulai language it is emong.[13] In Singkil (in Aceh province) and surrounding‚ the people name tsunami with word gloro.[14] ------------------------------------------------- History As early as 426 BC the Greek historian Thucydides inquired in his book History of the Peloponnesian War about the causes of tsunami‚ and was the first to argue that ocean earthquakes must be the cause.[5][6] "The cause‚ in my opinion‚ of this phenomenon must be sought in
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Group 3 (IV- Diamond) Members: * Jose Japhet L. Cipriano * Pamela M. Bendicion * Gianne T. Gloriani * Neil Ross R. Santiago * Christine Mae R. Montenegro * Lexter Rueda * Kurt Cruz * Klark Kwan Submitted to: Ms. Pamela Mae Pagcaliwangan An Evaluation: Greek and Roman Literature CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Roman literature‚ while it lacks the brilliant originality and the delicate beauty which characterize the works of the Great
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(Return to CO.Quaker.org Home Page) 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "Heading" Just and Unjust War2013-07-09T16:58:18#EndEditable 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "body" by Howard ZinnReprinted (with permission of the author) from the book Declarations of Independence‚ (...also found in The Zinn Reader‚ and Howard Zinn on War) I enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was an eager bombardier‚ determined to do everything I could to help defeat fascism. Yet‚ at the end of the war‚ when
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| |10 20th century | |11 References | [edit]Ancient Near East One of the first forms is sacred prostitution‚ supposedly practiced among the Sumerians. In ancient sources (Herodotus‚ Thucydides) there are many traces of sacred prostitution‚ starting perhaps with Babylon‚ where each woman had to reach‚ once in their lives‚ the sanctuary ofMilitta (Aphrodite or Nana/Anahita) and there have sex with a foreigner as a sign of hospitality for
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Iliad The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters‚ traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War‚ the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states‚ it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war‚ the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends
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Ever since history started to be written‚ historians have reflected on the theories and methods with which they approach the past‚ and the possibilities and limitations of acquiring reliable knowledge about it. From the ancient Greek historian Thucydides to historical scholars of the Enlightenment and the Romantic periods such as Edward Gibbon and Leopold von Ranke‚ they have maintained in different ways a fundamental distinction between history and myth‚ objective knowledge about the past and poetic
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Prevalence of Zoonotic Diseases (T.B and Brucellosis) in Animals Domesticated in Pishin District Research Report submitted to & For the complete fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) In BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS By AEMAL TAREEN Supervisor Dr. DOST MUHAMMAD BALOCH Faculty of Biotechnology and Informatics‚ BUITEMS‚ Quetta Co-Supervisor PROFESSOR Dr. MUHAMMAD AZAM KHAN KAKAR Faculty of Biotechnology and Informatics‚ BUITEMS
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The Bible Among The Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature? My Name OBST 510: Old Testament Introduction July 6‚ 2014 Introduction The author‚ a research professor at Wesley Biblical Seminary by the name of John N. Oswalt‚ attempts to explain the similarities and differences of the Holy Scripture and its teachings from that of the neighboring Ancient Near East beliefs. Moreover‚ he attempts to answer the question of how scholarly opinions of
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