Ancient Macedonians

Brutus: Tragic Hero or Antagonist? Friends and coworkers alike should be people one is able to rely on. In the times of ancient Rome, however, these luxuries are hard to come by. Julius Caesar’s friends and fellow government officials, people he should be able to trust, assassinate him at a Senate meeting on the Ides of March. However, Caesar is not the character in the play to be betrayed and manipulated. His good friend, Brutus, also struggles with not being able to trust the people Brutus…

their head. Not many remember these kings of the east, and it is even more difficult to when their mark on their own history was erased by their successors. Hatshepsut was one of the few, and by far one of the most successful female pharaohs in ancient Egypt. She was the first of them to seize total control of the throne and declare herself pharaoh, and from 1479-1478 b.c. she ruled the most powerful lands of her time. Born in the eighteenth dynasty at the height of egyptian rule, Hatshepsut…

A notorious Roman by the name of Julius Caesar once said, “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”(Caesar) That one spoken sentence alone can define this man’s actions in detail from his very first success, all the way to his downfall. Opinions have been thrown left and right; to and fro, as to wether or not it was justified for Caesar to bend Roman law. It is asked wether it was right or not for this legendary dictator to break the law, if it was for the…

In the beginning of the Archaic Period (800-480 BCE), Greek sculptors took early inspiration from Egyptian and Near Eastern monumental art, but over time they developed their own independent artistic identity. Through many Greek sculptors we are able to examine the abandonment of the rigid and unnatural Egyptian pose, into the more realistic sculpture that portrays how a human body truly stands. Greek sculptors were particularly concerned with proportion, poise, and idealised perfection of the…

Roman history, perhaps one of the most influential men was that of Lucius Junius Brutus. At the pinnacle of his life, he was able to start a revolution that overthrew a monarchy and helped to establish what would become the most power land in the ancient world: Rome. Yet, despite his accomplishments, he has seen very little recognition compared to some Romans, like Julius Caesar. However, Brutus’s life should not be kept in the shadows. For this reason, I propose that a film dedicated to the…

With the multiple victories won by the Romans, there came great changes. Most of these new changes were of good nature: Rome became a republic, they kept their powerful army status along with a newfound title of best naval fleet, and became an intimidating force to be reckoned with. However, with great power comes great resp-oh wait, wrong direction. With all this great power, there came quite a bit of negative results for Rome and its people. One of these negative outcomes was what I like…

came the flourishing of many ancient civilizations. Two of these civilizations, the ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians have provided modern day historians to uncover what life was like during these times. While these two have similar beginnings and locations, there are major differences between the two early civilizations. While both civilizations are nested near rivers which allow their agricultural lifestyles to flourish, Egypt has one advantage over ancient Mesopotamia, the sea.…

Throughout The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, there is a consistent recurrence of the word fire, which is interesting since most of time it is utilized metaphorically. It often emphasizes characters’ passion; however it is also used more literally to signify destruction. Passion plays a key role in the story: characters wholeheartedly take positions for their belief due to powerful emotions, but most of the time their attempts have unintentional ramifications. These decisions…

Aristotle was not alone with his assessment of females, for several of the greats, such as Homer, Socrates, Plato, along with numerous other ancient writers, believed that women were the weaker and inferior sex, and essentially lacking. Socrates went so far as contending that being born a woman was a divine punishment, since a woman is halfway between “a man and an animal.” Simonides, a writer, portrayed women as different types of animals that symbolize the forces of chaos. This Condescending…

required an indemnity from those they conquered, such as from Carthage, to what he calls a permanent indemnity (1906). As was the case in many aspects of the Ancient Roman Empire and Republic government, there appears to have been a great deal of corruption within the tax system. William Alden (2010), writing for the Huffington Post describes ancient Rome’s taxation as, “2,000-year-old tradition that, from its very start, has been tainted by abuse” (para. 1). He goes on to talk about Roman “Tax…