Dionysus, also known as the Roman Bacchus, (see Illustration 1) is the Greek god of wine and the harvest, of divine madness, fertility, theater and religious ecstasy. He is a god of epiphany and revelation. He is the youngest of the Greek gods, and was very popular among those marginali...
so the townspeople could run inside for safety behind closed massive gates. God commissioned Ezekiel, one of God’s greatest prophets, to be a “watchman” on the wall—to warn people of coming dangers. Sometimes the people listened; but often...
She grew up with an Air Force dad, and ended up marrying a Navy man. After living and working all over the country, she hopes to bring these rich and varied life experiences to her stories about people finding love amidst real-life struggles. Melanie left the stressful world of the courtr...
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From chivalrous Chinese heroes to the truly surreal, these offbeat literary genres offer exactly that—ways off the beaten path of well-known literature.
in The Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all—they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body used to fuel the Sun Stones that will protect the people of Reino del Sol for the next ten years....
aThis tradition is not as old as the Games. The tracking of the torch was never part of the Games in Ancient Greece, yet it was part of Greek culture. The old way to carry the Olympic torch through runs was in honor of several gods. They were carried from one temple to the other ...
Don’t obey them only while you’re being watched, as if you merely wanted to please people. Be sincere in your motives out of respect for your real master. 23 Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly as though you were working for your real master and not merely for humans. 24 You ...
Goods like salt, ivory, gold, beads, and metal goods–as well as enslaved people–crossed hostile conditions to travel from as far south as Ghana and Mali to northern Africa and the Middle East, and from there into Europe. Join Em and Jesse as they discuss these lesser-known but ...
Greek Architecture希腊建筑 It has been said that captive Greece conquered victorious Rome, and, as we have seen, the Romans adopted many ideas in painting and sculpture from the Greeks.Roman temples were also strongly influenced by Greek prototypes. Greek columns were built in three s...