Herodotus

sacrificed over sheep and vice versa. Not much written text has been found about Greek rituals, but the most common known is about animal sacrifice. The Greeks often sacrificed "pigs, sheep, goats or cows and always the same sex as the god." (Herodotus on Animal Sacrifice in Egypt, 2009-2014) The Egyptians would often sever an animal in parts, some of which they would stuff with food and spices and burn the offering. The Greeks would cook their meat or burn it as well before offering. At times…

Thales was an ancient Greek Philosopher and was born in the city of Greek Ionia. Thales explored many things, some of which include philosophy, mathematics and science. Some of Thales theories are that all things are made of water and from that he theorized that the earth floats on top of water. One of the most significant of pre-Socratic philosophers, Heraclitus, lived in a city called Ephesus. He had very strong opinions that the world was in a continuous state of fluctuation. Differing from…

every person who has gone through something traumatic? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was not even recognized as a real diagnosis until after Vietnam in the 1980s. The first case is thought to be that of Epizelus recorded by the Greek Historian Herodotus after the battle…

Piecing together the history of the ancient Greeks requires using a number of different sources and references. The ancient historians, such as Herodotus and Thucydides, were not omnipotent and their works did not include every relevant fact about the history of Greece. Because of this need for additional information, modern historians must refer to other sources to gain knowledge about the past. Luckily for them, the Greeks customarily inscribed a great amount of information about their…

its peak in the rich and complex examinations in Aristotle 's Politics. The political speculations of both logicians are firmly fixing to their moral hypotheses, and their advantage is in inquiries concerning constitutions or types of government. Herodotus draws a captivating civil argument by defenders of three types of government: majority rule government, government, and theocracy. Classical Political Theorist Among the Greeks, Plato and…

Like most Archaic era sculptures, it's of the person it’s model after. Each statue had a meaning, story behind it. The Kouroi of Argos story starts with Kleobis and Biton and a priest and his son. The story was told by Herodotus who says they were helping their mother by pulling her cart to the sanctuary, because her oxen was delayed. When the priestess asked Hera to reward the son', She granted them a peaceful death in there sleep was granted. (That’s why I think there…

Some claim that because Christians do not have the original manuscripts of various books of the Bible that our faith is based upon myths, could vary from translation to translation, and is not accurate because it was written by man. However, the evidence that the Bible is a trusted source for information speaks for itself through its scientific accuracy, historic accuracy, and its prophetic accuracy. In addition, there is substantial evidence that the author of the Bible are reliable, the…

Ancient battles can make for dramatic, interesting parts of history. Archeologists expend countless resources finding the locations of these battles, excavating the remains, and validating the stories. For example, Herodotus tells of the Battle of Marathon where 192 hoplites died and were buried in a mound still visible today. When archeologists investigated the mound , they found 192 skeletons. Archeology is rarely this easy, as seen when looking into the history of the Battle in Toutenburg…

Egyptian culture acknowledged women and gave them freedom equal to that of the Egyptian men, which transformed women from vulnerable domestic servants and women with no purpose in life but reproducing offspring to rulers, priestesses and artists. Even Herodotus, the Greek geographer and writer, visited Egypt and he was astonished by the behavior of “women who appeared to be as free as their menfolk” (Tyldesley 1). Women…

Information security has arguably been around for centuries. Around the fifth century BC, the time of Herodotus, information was secured by shaving the head of a slave, tattooing a message, and before the slave was given orders to deliver the message, the hair was allowed to grow back, thus concealing the message and having rudimentary information security (Patterson, 2010). This ancient method of protecting information is highlighted to articulate information security methods are in need of…