Once a thriving port city and an important Greek city-state on the eastern shore of Cyprus, Salamis offers a tantalizing glimpse into the vast history of the island. According to Homer, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by the archer Teukros, son of King Telamon, who came from the island of Salamis, off the coast of Attica. Half-brother to the hero Ajax, Teukros was unable to return home from the war after failing to prevent his half-brother's suicide, leading him to flee to Cyprus where he
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Karen Boehnke, Nick Bontis, Joseph J. Distefano (Jan,1999), The earliest works on leadership can be traced back to ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans giving this field a great heritage. . Leadership has been viewed as: a) a personality attribute; b) the art of inducing compliance; c) an exercise of influence; d) a form of persuasion; e) a power relation; f ) an instrument of goal attainment; g) an effect of interaction, and h) an initiation of structure. Researchers in the early decades of this
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Rebellion in Kentucky While it may not have been considered an overt, bellicose rebellion like that of the western Pennsylvanian counties, whiskey rebels in Kentucky were able to successfully avoid paying the excise tax for eight years. Considered a Virginian district before achieving statehood in 1792, the Kentucky was the ultimate frontier for the infant American nation. In Kentucky, according to historian Mary Bonsteel Tachau, “Whiskey was used in place of money because specie and bank notes
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To a military and cultural historian 323 BCE was significant as the death year of Alexander the Great. To an art historian this death marked the birth of Hellenism which is considered to have ended in about 30 BCE. It was at this time that an Athens centered Greek artistic world expanded to include all the major cities of the empire. This was an empire that would tear itself apart rapidly after the death of Alexander as his generals vied to succeed him. If the classical period of Greek art embodied
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In recent weeks, my classmates and I have been learning about the most magnificent ancient Greeks. We were given immense opportunity to learn about their dispute with Persia, their civil war between Sparta and Athens, and many more interesting general facts about Greece. Based off what we read, my peers and I also deciphered that the ancient Greeks valued similar virtues to the ones we value here at Temecula Preparatory School. They especially valued one virtue in specific. The Greeks valued
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Athens’ Golden age, where both economically and politically they reached their peak, is generally found between the repulsion of the Persian invasion and the Peloponnesian war (431-404BC). During this period Athens became its most democratic and wealthiest; her navy was the envy of the entire classical world both in size and quality. Behind these achievements flourished both population and culture, tragedy and comedy from playwrights such as Aristophanes and Euripides whilst philosophy and medicine
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Art History Introduction The Conquests of Alexander the Great culminated to the establishment of Hellenistic Kingdoms in South-West Asia from 323 BC to 146 BC. This led to the spread of Hellenistic cultures to these regions. The Hellenistic civilization and culture encompasses a blend between the Ancient Greek culture, religion and art and the South-West Asia art, culture and religion. The Head of Bodhisattva contained in the Cantor Museum encompasses the head of a Buddhist being that easily attained
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Aleksandr Pushkin "When Your So Young and Fairy Years…" 1829 When you’re so young and fairy years Are smeared by the gossip’s noise, And by the high word’s trial, fierce, Your public honor’s fully lost; Alone midst indifferent crowds, I share with you your soul’s pains, And just for you my prayers, loud, Are send to idols, void of sense.
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Alexander The Great Alexander the Great is arguably the most famous King that has ever lived. Alexander’s historical perception is without a doubt not entirely accurate, but in the facts of his Kingdom, and in reading the few historically relevant sources, we can interpret something about the life of this man. Through the writings of Plutarch, Arrian, Curtius Rufus, and Pliny, I see Alexander the Great as a justly motivated, intelligent military hero. We will never truly know how Alexander
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a dancing girl and this style would be seen in future Indian sculpture. After the fall of the Harappan culture, Indian art was influenced by the remaining Harappan populous and the Greeks. The Greeks influence Indian art when in 326 B.C.E, Alexander the Great conquered much of northwestern India and the Greek style became popular in India. The Greek style, in turn, was influenced by both the Mycenaean’s and the Egyptians. The most important periods of Ancient Greek sculpture were Archaic
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