Peter Alexander is an Australian fashion designer and is known for a fun and fashionable offering of pyjamas, loungewear and giftware.The year he claims to be born was 1970. Throughout Peter’s school years, he struggled with dyslexia and there was nothing in his early years that suggested he would have a career in fashion. With the support from his high school teachers, he successfully finished his final school exams. The pyjama thing started on Peter's Mum's dining room table, with a simple idea
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In ancient Greece, the people praised the Greek gods like the all powerful Zeus, Hera, and Apollo. There are many stories that focus on Greek gods, some people believe them to be true and some see them as stories. The Greek god Apollo focused on fate, plagues, and healing. He was considered the most Greek god of all gods. In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles uses the Greek god Apollo to show his influences on human life in how he controls fate, how plagues can change people actions, and healing in their lives
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Parthenon and the chryselephantine cult statues of Athena and Zeus, Pheidias was a renowned public figure. It was difficult to become a successful sculptor, but everyone praised a great one. Children were not encouraged to become sculptors, however, as stated by Spivey, “...if one were to become a Pheidias...and produced many great works, everyone may have praised one’s skill.” Pheidias’ greatest achievement was the establishment of the perception of Athena and Zeus, which he conceived from his own visions
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wrote many works discuss about virtue and happiness: Politics (la politique), Institution of Athens, Eudeme Ethics, Ethics Nicomaque…In the last works he wrote about conceptions of happiness and virtue. The concept of moral philosophy. Aristotle had a great influence to this day, in some extent it still remains the same for the life of us. It is less abstract than the notion of ethical philosophy. Moral virtue born in ancient
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Daily Life in Ancient Greece The daily life of ancient Greeks was very interesting. Men in Greece had a lot of freedom but as for women in Greece, their lives were very restricted. Children in Greece had very different lives depending on what gender they were. Boys learned about sports and wrestling and the girls learned about chores, weaving, and cooking. There is much more stuff about their daily life, keep reading to find out. The daily life of a man was just how you would expect it to be in
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by which he fully outsmarted Alexander,” he took an alternative route and followed Alexander’s rear, also killing the Macedonians which were left behind due to being unfit or illness. Arrian refers to Darius capturing the Macedonians which had been left behind before the Battle of Issus. “Having reached Issus, he captured as many of the Macedonians as had been left behind there on account to illness” this was considered a smart move from Darius. Following Alexander meant Darius knew most of his
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Issus While Alexander continued to defeat Persian forces on land, the Persian fleet attempted to provoke the League fleet to battle. Despite Parmenion's urging, Alexander had several reasons to avoid combat. First, he feared that a defeat would expose a weakness and encourage rebellion in Greece. More important, he recognized that he had little to gain from engagement, as he could more gradually dissolve the Persian fleet by cutting off its access to the ports he controlled. Alexander therefore made
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Importance to the civilization. Sports were important to the ancient Greeks because there were many ways they used sports to help them. Physical fitness was important in ancient Greece too. Sports gave something for everybody to do. Men trained and trained which helped them become fit to compete. Men went out to public gyms, for fun or for training. Some children trained as early as the age of 7! Most women took care of the house, but some women were able to go to gyms and train like men. The
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When defining words that are used to describe ancient times we try to simplify the word into our everyday language as much as one can without taking away from its true meaning. Often one does this to make it seem not so complex to grasp what one is reading and or studying. This is no different for the ancient Greek word “polis” as we define as “city-state.”(Nagel pg 1) However does this simple definition fully define the true meaning of a polis? With city being portrayed as a large socialeconomically
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1. Where was the Persian Empire located? The Persian empire was spread across the three continents Africa, Asia and Europe; including countries: Libya, Egypt, Africa, Macedonia, Thrace of Europe, Babylonia and Syria. 2. Who were the Achaemenids? The Achaemeids were the royal family of the Persian Empire. 3. Name the Persian Kings and their contribution to the expansion of the Persian empire. (Table) Kings | | Cyrus | 559-530 BC- He added countries such as Medina and Lydia (and more)
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