Herodotus

Kaylee Argo Ms. DeGreef English IV 10 March 2017 The Tales of Greek Gods and Goddesses “Slay the monster Medusa and bring me her head,” said the king to a poor, yet valiant young Perseus (D’aulaire 114). It was his plot to get rid of the boy, so he could marry his mother. No man had set out to kill Medusa and come back alive, until Perseus. The tales of the Greek gods and goddesses are intertwined in history. They have been recited by many different cultures and told many different ways. That…

The ancient Greeks contributed much to modern astronomy, inventing and utilizing the scientific method to study and chart the heavens through experiments, careful observation and meticulous records of their findings. However, they were not only good at the observational aspect of astronomy, but also the theoretical aspect as well, speculating about the Universe's size, structure and nature, and about everything that the Universe encompassed. Indeed, the Greeks were masters of this art, and their…

As taught by all of the Manifestations, the Creator is formless, birthless and deathless. Zoroastrians refrained from making images of any sort, and do not worship idols. “Ahura (God) is everywhere at once. He is all-knowing. He knows what we are thinking and doing at this very moment. When Ahura Mazda first created humanity, He gave the following order: “Be diligent to save you souls; I shall then provide for your bodily matters. For it is impossible to save your souls, without you. There is a…

Once they have asserted that fact, once they have made happiness the most fundamental of all ethical terms, writers like Aristotle or Locke, Aquinas or J. S. Mill, cannot escape the question whether all who seek happiness look for it or find it in the same things. Holding that a definite conception of happiness cannot be formulated, Kant thinks that happiness fails even as a pragmatic principle of conduct. "The notion of happiness is so indefinite," he writes, "that although every man wishes to…

land on earth to isolate a narrow green valley. The ancient Greeks called this land Egypt. For more than five thousand years, great and often mysterious civilizations have thrived along the banks of the Nile. About 450BC, a Greek historian named Herodotus called Egypt the "Gift of the Nile" because the Egyptian civilization depended on the resources of the great river. Every spring, the snow in the mountains of East Africa melted, sending a torrent of water that overflowed the banks of the…