Empedocles

incredible music and seen his many talents. He had no interest in these women, but did not realize the intensity of their desire for him. In one of the most bizarre deaths we will mention today (but not the most incredible - we will save that for Empedocles), the women threw themselves at Orpheus only to find him struggling against their advances. In what was one of the earliest recordings of mob-mentality, the women went mad and literally tore Orpheus to shreds. Not a pleasant ending for a man…

THE TURNING POINT: RECONCILING RAPE AND ROME’S FOUNDATIONS Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita tells the story of the founding of Rome, and includes several prominent stories of rape: that of Rhea Silvia, the Sabine women, Lucretia, and Verginia. Curiously, each of these rape stories is tied to the founding of integral parts of Roman society and politics. I will argue that Livy’s stories of rape are directly connected to the founding of Roman political institutions because the rapes act as turning points,…

Analysis The Earth and the Universe: First of all, Hesiod’s Theogony (circa. 700 BC) is a written source explaining the connections between the gods, goddesses and these immortal beings are the embodiment respective parts of the earth and universe. Hesiod explains that in the beginning there was only Chaos and then came Gaea, the broad earth who supports Mt Olympus and at its core, Tartarus. From Gaea came Uranus, the sky and stars and together they bore the titans and titanesses and the…

Francisco Santos ACS 5 Janna Corn 18 September 2014 Light Since the first days of the humankind on Earth that was something present and helped them develop their skills to survive. Light, even with a lot of studies about it, continues to be an ambiguous topic to explain. Therefore, most people know that it has uses and a lot of concepts about its functioning or essentially its definition. Many scientists around the world developed concepts to explain what light is. This happened because each…

Parmenides, like many pre-Socratic philosophers, was among the first to start questioning the world around him in a philosophical context. A student of Xenophanes’, Parmenides argued that change did not occur in the natural world and that the world is as it is and will remain so for eternity. He argued, quite fervently, that our personal observations of the natural world do not correlate with reality. While many see this as a fallacy in the modern era, the principle behind his ideas (that the…

things as miracles; hence there is no reason to accept the claim that Christ had arose from the grave miraculously. Evolution is not a modern idea as most would assume, but is found in the Mayan culture circa 600 BC, and in Greek philosophy of Empedocles circa 640 BC. One of the first evolutionary theories was reported by Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC) in the province of Ionia on the coast of Greece. He provides us a glimpse into ancient theories of evolution when he stated that life started…

ABIR LAL BISWAS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MRS. SWETA ANTONY MASTER OF ARTS ENGLISH (PREVIOUS) SEMESTER II 13 APRIL 2015 CULTURE AND ART: A CRITICAL CROSSOVER The origin of the very word “Culture” comes from the world of ‘agriculture’ from which it developed a metaphorical meaning in the eighteenth century for culturing the mind rather than crops. And in this sense gradually it became associated by the early nineteenth century with the knowledge of Greek, Latin and the fine arts. The acquisition…

Wilson has a section dedicated to the schools in late antiquity. Wilson identifies what he believes to be important people during this time that had a lot of impact on schools in the empire. Some of the schools mentioned are located in Gaza, Athens, and Alexandria. “Gaza school is associated with the invention of the catena” (p. 33). Procopius most likely a member of the church was the chief member of the Gaza school. (p. 31). Procopius taught pupils to paraphrase sections of impotent text. It…

– equation (2 gives info on location of electron in terms of probability density - wave functions are called orbitals – [pic], where E is energy, e2 is electric potential, r is orbital radius and h is Planck’s constant 1925 Wolfgang Pauli – each orbital has only 2 electrons is now explained due to direction of spin of electrons. Spinning electrons create magnetic field. Only 2 electrons of opposite spin in an orbital referred to as Pauli exclusion principle Hund’s rule – half fill…

Why and how do things change? What explains transformation of matter? (Chemistry) The idea of understanding what fundamental matter makes up the universe has always been one of science’s most sought after concept throughout history. The development of theories explaining the transformation of matter has progressed from a vague, philosophical Greek definition to the European Enlightment modern understanding of matter and ending with Dalton’s universally accepted “Atomic Theory”. Although this…