Hellenistic period

Greece is firmly rooted in its past. The history of Greece shaped the way the country is today. The Greek civilization began on an Aegean island of Crete about 3000 B.C.E (World Book 538). This culture was known as the Minoan culture. However, in 2000 B.C.E, villages began to develop in the mainland of Greece. These villagers called themselves Mycenaeans, after the powerful town of Mycenae in the Peloponnesus. The Mycenaean’s were in contact with the Minoan culture on Crete and adopted some…

expounding on Egypt. Alan B. Lloyd contends that, as a chronicled archive, the compositions of Herodotus are truly flawed, and that he was working from "lacking sources". This period Greeks traveled Egypt to study their religions and beliefs. Greek influenced Egypt most of the time such as The Hellenistic kingdom in that period. Another example of polytheistic will be"Re finds thee upon the shores of the sky in this lake that is Nut (the Sky-goddess)."(Document 1) Also, "Hail the great god,…

Christian literature has been directed against heresy and paganism, and in favor of Christian thought, which is particularly emphasized by the Christian school of Alexandria and its famous teacher Origen, which connects the lines of early Christian period to the new spirit that is manifested in the Church. Persecutions were run by the emperors Valerian and Aurelian as well, but the greatest persecution of Christianity was experienced during Diocletian and his co-ruler and associates (284-311),…

449 B.C., and he was given the mantle to lead all artistic undertakings in Athens. After the victory over Persia, Pericles commissioned his close friend and adviser, Phidias, to build major statues for the city in order to beautify it. During this period, he created among other works, the three works for which his mastery and skill has an artistic became renowned. These were the three monuments of the Athenian Acropolis including the Promachos, the Parthenon, and the Lemnian Athena (Jones…

“Daniel in the Den” by Bastille, is a song that references the book of Daniel, specifically chapter six where Daniel is in the lion den (Daniel 6: 10-19), and when Daniel’s friends are thrown into a fiery furnace (Daniel 3:23). In the biblical story, the king has signed a document that says no one was allowed to prey to anyone, human being or divine, for thirty days or else they were thrown into a lion’s den (Daniel 5:7). Daniel, even though he knew this was signed, prayed to God anyway…

Introduction: In 1888, William Flinders Petrie excavated different parts of the sprawling oasis area of Fayum in Alexandria -Egypt- (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). Petrie directed his attention to excavations done in the Pyramid of Amenemhet III (Tour Egypt, n.d.). In the pyramid, hundreds of mummies were found with fascinating portraits of the mummified bodies (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The funeral portraits are know as the Fayum portraits and were later found all around Egypt (SMITHSONIAN…

As Rome and Greece were set in prolific time periods, they were powerful and cultured nations. While the similarities between Greece and Rome are numerous, there are a differences that have decisively occurred. Their government, religion, philosophy, sculpture, literature, architecture, and women’s influence were essential to the whole of their society and humanities. Government is critical in every society to bring order, stability, and progress. In Rome, the community was governed by…

fulfillment of natural order and necessity and believed the barbarians were unavoidably “Otherized” based on their culture and uncivilized nature. The philosopher Aristotle lived between the years 384 and 322 BC. The time period Aristotle lived during is considered the Classical period which…

There is a famous passage in Second Isaiah, composed during or after the Exile, which is sometimes cited as a Jewish rebuke to the Zoroastrian idea of a dualistic God: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7) This passage, which is a major source for Jewish speculation on the source of good and evil in the world, denies the Zoroastrian idea of a God who is the source only of "good" and favorable things. The…

Rome was not built in a day is a common phrase coined to convey feelings of patience. Although it is just a saying it is interesting to see what is not emphasized; how long the fall of Rome took. It takes a much longer time to found and establish an empire as opposed to destroying one. However while Rome wasn’t built in a day it wasn’t destroyed in a day either. Empires and kingdoms rise and fall, an important aspect of examining empires is distinguishing when one has fallen and when one has…