Herodotus

Cyrus treated his kingship with the Babylonians as a union on behalf of the chief city god of Babylon who was known as Marduk. Cyrus believed that his position as king was destined by Marduk, and that according to the Cyrus cylinder “[Marduk] searched everywhere and then he took a righteous king, his favourite, by the hand, he called out his name. Cyrus, King of Ansan, he pronounced his name to be king all over the world”. The Cyrus Cylinder also states that Marduk encouraged Cyrus to command…

According the battle told by Herodotus, the Spartans used a plan to take on a set amount of Persian troops, limiting the usage of the whole Persian army; Leonidas was able use mountain pass to execute this plan. The same tactics can be seen in the movie. The Spartans formed up in a mountain…

Greek Mythology revolves around the gods, goddesses and the heroes of the time period. When in need or just for extra luck people would pray to the different gods. Whether it was the mothers or wives praying to Hestia, the Virgin Goddess or Hearth and Home, or the hunters praying to Athena, the Goddess of the Hunt, the Gods of Mythology were heavily worshipped. There are many different versions of the Greek Mythology stories, the most accurate would be from the writers of the time period when…

to offer, human sacrifices” (141). Poseidonius describes a custom of the Gauls in which they “hang the heads of their enemies from the necks of their horses” and upon returning home nail the heads to their homes (247). All of these features match Herodotus’ descriptions of the Scythians. The Germans seem to share more features with the Scythians than the Gauls do. For example, Caesar writes that the Germans “spend all their lives in hunting and warlike pursuits” and “live principally on milk,…

In the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Israel, and the Greeks, there were communities run by the form of government, monarchy, or kingship. However kingship is different than monarchy as Merriam Webster defines kingship as “the position, office, or dignity of a king”. Monarchy is the family that rules, kingship also happens to be based of monarchy. There are good qualities of a king, and bad qualities; the bad qualities seem to form a pattern that prove flaws in kingship, however… In the play…

In-class Essay Outline Topic: Question 2, The Archaic Period reflected in literature (lyric poetry and Herodotus) Thesis: The personal nature and divergent subject matter of Archaic Greek art, particularly in literature, reflect a period of great change in which there was an interest in establishing identity. Arguments: The development of poleis and ethnes as well as more defined social stratification within poleis produced a society interested in self-identity. Lyric poetry in turn was about…

to other countries, including Israel. The city-port of Heracleion was mentioned by ancient historians. But, until its recent underwater discovery, it was thought to be legend. Also, modern-day scholars dismissed its connection to the River Nile. Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) and Strabo (64/63 BCE – c. 24 CE, who was also a philosopher and historian himself) were separated by centuries, yet both attest to the existence of an ancient African port city, full of boats, some of them presumably papyrus,…

“Others” The film 300 had a main focus of the Spartans and their elite soldiers. Anyone that was not a member of this elite society was depicted as “others.” “The Greeks created a new set of ideas about what it was to be a member of a human community” (Herodotus, Histories). The film came out at a sensitive time for today’s Persians and was received in a very negative way by them. It was in a time of war and many saw it as an attack and a ploy to unite Americans against the Persians. There were…

Plato's Cave is a allegory writing about two different worlds and the escape of one individual to see both, but is not able to share what he has seen because of people not being open to learning new things. It starts off in a dark, dim-lighted cave. In the cave, there are people tied down in chains and can hardly move. The people are facing a wall and from the little light that there is, the people watch shadows of varies objects for all their time and that is basically there world. Little do…

When analyzing Roman society it becomes clear that there is a significant amount of resources available and that further analysis is required to determine whether or not an accurate representation has been achieved. It is clear that many of the primary sources available are often biased and therefore must be compared to other sources on similar events to gain an accurate idea of Roman culture. Through the addition of other sources such as ancient currency it is possible to gain an accurate idea…