Classical Athens

“Although many people assume that softball was derived from baseball, the sport’s first game actually came about because of a football game” (History 1). Softball was invented on Thanksgiving day in 1887 in Chicago, Illinois by a group of Yale and Harvard alumni. They were all just sitting around waiting for the outcome of the Yale vs. Harvard football game, when one of the alumni threw a boxer's glove at a harvard supporter. The supporter swung at the glove and everyone was interested by the…

The Los Angeles coliseum has had one of the biggest impact in Los Angeles area regarding the lost heroes from the World War I and gathering athletes from all over the world. According to the Los Angeles memorial Coliseum News states, “ The Coliseum was commissioned to be built in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I” The coliseum was originally made to place a tribute to the lost hero’s from the World War I. On November 12,1932 fourteen years after the World War I a ceremony…

given to the winner of the stadion foot race, the most respected and prestigious event in the Panathenaic Games. These games were very important to the Ancient Athenians as it was a religious festival honouring the goddess Athena, the patron God of Athens. The winner of the stadion also received sacred olive oil placed in the amphora as olives represented victory. Also, under the base of the amphora are the words ‘Sophilos made this.’ Most amphorae are unsigned but this amphora is because Greek…

education for the military. Along with Sparta only concern being the military, they also do not have a steady economy. Athens, however, was very steady regarding economics. Also, in Athens, we see a happy and enjoyable social environment. Around the 4th and 5th century B.C.E, we see Greek philosophers expressing their ideas, along with Sparta and Athens being the leading poleis. Athens was the most important polis around the 4th century B.C.E due to their philosophers, economic status, and…

Classicism is stylistic movement of art that is associated with antiquity mainly in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Dated back to the middle of the 5th century B.C., the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis was constructed and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena. This magnificent structure consisted of unique components, such as the Ionic frieze, which indicated the first change in artistic style leading to classicism. In the first appearance in writing, the Parthenon means the “temple of the…

from 800 BC to 700 AD but their height was in the 5th and 6th Centuries BC. This was a period that was very influential to the Western Culture and they called it the Classical Era. The Greeks were the first to develop art. They also make vases and beautiful clay statues. The biggest influences are in the sculptures. During the Classical Era, Artist made amazing innovations that went beyond the style of art. They were designed with mathematical proportions and they were modelled into poses. They…

Brenna Haufler Ben Mascuch Project Extra Catapult Study During the Middle Ages, several advances in the architecture of castle walls were made and a new way to destroy them was also created. Thus, the catapult! The word, “catapult,” comes from the Greek word "katapultos." It was begun as a type of siege engine. In 400 B.C., the first catapult was invented in the Greek town of Syracuse. Catapults were introduced to the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages. Catapults were first used to increase the…

Imagine yourself being stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere with a group of people you’ve never met in your entire life. Trying to keep everyone alive and under control. There is no order on this island since no one listens to anyone, no authority. So what do you do, you find something that gets a hold of everyone's attention. Something that is a collective ideal bringing everyone together. In our society we have this exact system that is in place, where we use one object or event to…

Writer, Christopher Hitchens opined that the Parthenon sculptures should be returned to the Parthenon in Greece in his book, called the “The Lovely Stones”. Christopher Hitchens efficiently builds his argument by using pathos, logos, ethos, and historical allusions. Hitchen begins his book by telling the audience a brief history of how the Parthenon became the detriment it is today. Hitchen draws the reader in by mentioning some of the events the once beautiful structure went through, such…

He also came up with the Principle of the shortest path of light, that can stated that if the light ray propagates from a one point to another one within the same medium. The path that it takes is the shortest one,of a theory that was later confirmed and proved with the shortest path that was named the Extremum. There also “Hero Fountain” a fountain that operates the movement of the energy is also one of his creation. Heron was even the first to make a machine that opened with an windwheel. The…