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This doomed city at the heart of the Trojan War was lost for thousands of years until a team of German archaeologists uncovered the ancient site.
Over some 50 years, the Periclean building program produced not only the large temple to Athena Parthenos (“Athena the Virgin,” in Greek), but the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis, as well as two smaller temples, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike. “There were ...
The planets are named after the famous gods of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Mercury (Greek god name Hermes) was the messenger god. That the innermost planet was named after a god that had to be swift on foot is no accident, because from the vantage point of Earth, Mercury, wit...
Upon examination of these two works, there are three major areas where the gods of the Greek epic seem to directly contrast the nature of the God of the Israelites: the way problems are solved, the prestige and status that separates the divine from the masses, and the extent of power ...
While meat-eating in the Homeric epics is often linked to ritual sacrifice, there are instances where characterseat meat without first offering it to the gods. Perhaps the most striking example is the notorious suitors of Penelope, Odysseus’ long-suffering wife, who constantly gorge on the absen...
There are many hypotheses on what or who Aesop could have been. There was also a rumor that he was a slave and got free because of his extraordinary story telling abilities (“Aesop” Encyclopedia of World Biography, par 5). A fable is simply a synonym of allegory. Over the years ...
But many monuments to the Confederacy still stand in American cities.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are more than 1,700 statues, flags, plaques, city and county names, street names, holidays and even military bases named for Confederate generals, or otherwise dedicated to ho...