93). In Greek myths, the cornucopia implies the horn of the goat that suckled Zeus and is filled with flowers and fruits to represent opulence and fortune. Initially, the depictions of Hārītī were modeled on the goddess of the harvest, who also held a cornucopia, and Hārītī and her...
JO: Basically, sustained economic growth lead to the rise of Ancient Greek civilization.JO:基本上,是持续的经济增长导致了古希腊文明的崛起。At the Early Iron Age nadir, in ca. 1000 BCE, the Greek world was sparsely populated and consumption rates hovered near subsistence. Some 650 years later, ...
摘录Introduction: The Fall of Eros 这篇书评可能有关键情节透露 阿兰·布鲁姆的英文很好(当然他的法文、古希腊文也很好),推荐读英文原文。下面是Introduction的摘录,行文令人感动,心驰神往。为了主要体现布鲁姆的主张,这里的摘录没包括他对弗洛伊德、金赛、福柯、德里达等思潮的批评。要了解这些批评需要读全文。东亚文明...
ashould our civilization fail and fall,there are paradoxes and ironies enough to engage whole generations of future historians 如果我们的文明发生故障并且下跌,有参与未来史学家的整体世代的足够矛盾和反语[translate]
What Caused the Fall of the Roman Empire?The main cause of the fall of the Roman Empire is still a topic of debate among historians, maybe because it is a symbol of what we fear about our own civilization. There are many different theories about why a superpower that ruled for 500 ...
But these Macedonian Greek pharaohs embarked on ruinous warfare, faced rebellion, and descended into murderous family feuds. Increasingly reliant on the dizzying rise of Roman power, Ptolemaic Egypt was finally annexed by Augustus in 30 BCE. How did such an ancient civilization come to this? Explor...
the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire used Greek as its official language while the Western Roman Empire used Latin. After the Western Roman Empire fell, the Eastern Roman Empire continued on until 1453 AD. Today, scholars call the Eastern Roman Emp...
Roman and Greek cities offer many cases of city renaming: Byzantion will become Constantinopolis passing from Greece to Rome, Londinium will become London when the English are born, and so on. DYNAMIC SPREAD OF RESOURCES The most famous debate between Civ mapmakers is: “Should horses be placed...
XU ZHEN® plants an ancient Greek column onto Icarus's fallen body. A dramatic monologue is thus formed between the two, be it telling of self-affirmation and repetition, or self-questioning and dilution. The work hints at the moment when a civilization is confronted with itself in the pos...
Ch 14.Mycenaean Civilization Ch 15.Ancient Greece from 500-399 BC Ch 16.Ancient Greece: Athens Overview Ch 17.Ancient Greece: Sparta Overview Ch 18.4th Century Greece Till the Death of... Ch 19.Important Ancient Greek... Ch 20.Ancient Rome from 264 to 31 BC ...