Think about a place where you can see the magnificent panorama of New York City, like a bird looking down from the clouds. I bet the Empire State Building comes to mind. For 40 years after its completion, it was the tallest building in the world, with a length of 443.2 meters. Now it is the third tallest building in the USA ("U.S.A.'s tallest buildings - Top 20"). The reason for its initial creation a competition of "who could build the highest building first" ("The History of the Empire State
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The Character of Achilles The Iliad by Homer is an epic poem that tells us about the famous Trojan War. Throughout this poem, Homer presented every character with their specific characteristics such as the role they played in each other lives, their flaws, and strengths and emotions that they evoked at particular settings in the course of this tremendous story. Achilles, the great Greek Warrior and principal character of this epic all along said things, did things and made choices that essentially
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Mythology: “The body of myths (sacred stories) of a particular culture; the study and interpretation of such myths.” A long time ago mythology was something treated with respect. People respected and believed in it. The two major mythologies known are Greek and Roman. What are the similarities and differences between these two famous mythologies? The Roman mythology has two types of creation. Certain people believe it was created around the 12th century BC, after the war between Greece and Asia
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the Greek mythology genre. The painting was done by a British artist called Walter Crane. Crane was one of the 19th century’s most beloved children’s illustrators (Art). The picture has the sea at a blue aqua color and shows Poseidon riding white horses galloping on the sea. The picture is portraying Poseidon calling on an earthquake to come upon a city (Art). Poseidon was a very popular god, and is the subject of many myths (Loggia). He was also known as Neptune in Roman mythology. He appears
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The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou clearly is a modern representation of Homer’s The Odyssey. There are multiple people and scenes in the movie that are similar to those in The Odyssey. Not only are there obvious similarities but also minor ones that not everyone may catch. Throughout this paper, you will believe the fact that this movie resembles the myth in plenty of ways. To point out the obvious, Homer’s ‘Odysseus is represented by Ulysseus. They both let their pride get in front of them
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| | | Pandora's Box | Once up a time, a long time ago, Zeus ordered Hephaestus (Aphrodite's husband) to make him a daughter. It was the first woman made out of clay. Hephaestus made a beautiful woman and named her Pandora. Zeus sent his new daughter, Pandora, down to earth so that she could marry Epimetheus, who was a gentle but lonely man. Zeus was not being kind. He was getting even. Epimetheus and Prometheus were brothers. Zeus was mad at one of the brothers, Prometheus, for giving
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Getting to Know Helen of Troy Helen, who considered being the face that launched a thousand ships, is from Lacedaemon or Sparta in Greece. She is the daughter of Leda and Zeus, the King of Gods. She has four siblings namely, Clymnestra, Tymandra, Castor and Pollux. When Helen was old enough to marry, Tyndareus was besieged with offers from men of wealth and influence. Many men pursued Helen until Agamemnon wooed Helen for his brother Menelaus who was finally chosen to be her husband
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Loyalty in The Odyssey Many human cultures assign values as well as worthiness to the existence of loyalty. As a Classical culture known for its emphasis of loyalty at home as well as abroad, the faithfulness of ancient Greeks in their relationships is exemplified in many Classical texts, such as Homer’s The Odyssey. In both ancient Greece as well as in The Odyssey, loyalty was the social norm because of the egalitarian nature of the city-state as well as because of the typical ancient Greek family
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Cl 100 Art Museum Reflection Introduction As a class assignment, I recently went to the Art Institute of Chicago last Friday. In hindsight, this was a little late to be going, but I found the trip to be enriching nonetheless. I browsed over several sections, like the Indian and Native American, but I spent most of my time in the Ancient Mediterranean area, chiefly the section displaying ancient Greek art. My task was to find several different items, each representing an aspect of Greek civilization
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