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Maison Carrée in Nimes was built in around 20 or 19 BCE, during the Roman urbanization of the Celtic’s land in southern France (Gaul). Maison Carrée was one of several temples built under the rule of Augustus Caesar. It is 82 feet long and 40 feet wide and 40 feet tall. The name Maison Carrée is derived from archaic French carré long, meaning ‘long square’ for the obvious reason that it is rectangular in shape. It was originally commissioned by Augustus Caesar’s son-in-law Marcus Agrippa, but…

The epic The Iliad by Homer, is set during the last year of the Trojan War and recounts the battles and epic retelling of the end of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles and Hector are known as the greatest warriors of the Greeks and Trojans, respectively. This places both warriors against each other and predicts direct conflict between both of them. As both are such great warriors they are quite similar, however there are also major differences between them. These major…

As life continues it is simple to watch, as you will recollect on past events that permanently become apart of your memory. An individual’s past will always have consequences for the future, whether they worked hard to achieve a goal or created a remorseful mistake. The enjoyable experiences will tend to bring smiles and laughter, usually only positively affecting the future, while the wicked ones will bring regret and frustration. Usually a rotten past will affect life ahead by inhibiting an…

The title of the work is The Iliad. Type: The Iliad is an epic. Author: The name of the author is Homer. Theme: The central idea of the epic is Rage. In the beginning of the work the character, Achilles, is said to be the reason why many Greeks died during war. In the epic poem, it says that Achilles allowed his rage to control his thinking, which resulted in him removing himself from the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Continuing throughout the work Achilles continued to allow his…

“For Troy!”, which is another example how his country motivates him unlike Achilles, who only fight for himself and to earn fame. The war in Troy was started because his brother Paris started having a secret love affair with Menelaus ' wife, Queen Helen, and eventually took her away from Menelaus and back to Troy. When Paris told his brother Hector, Hector was frustrated at him because he knew there was going to be trouble Troy and the Greeks. Hector at this point had loved his…

In 1830, Britain witnessed another revolution in France, because of this the Whigs, an important fraction of Parliament decided that reform would be necessary in order to ensure that the rising industrial middle class would not revolt. This would eventually lead to the Reform Act of 1832, which gave many new industrial communities a voice in government and allowed the industrial middle class to vote. Thomas Babington Macaulay, a Whig, would argue that this bill would need to pass in order to…

The Iliad in Our World For centuries humankind have fought wars; whether it was for power, justice, or for peace in their country. We know about the wars that have been fought before our existence thanks to the ones who documented them. Although for the Greeks, it was a different story. Around 1200 B.C.E. important cities of Greece were destroyed and burned leaving not much information of the civilization. They recuperated years after getting back on their feet. We are able to know about the…

The liad is a classical reference for a reason, being that the themes which it touch on so long ago are still discussed today. That characters have their own self-interest in mind much people still have today. Achilles, a skilled fighter and known for it along with accomplishments, had his own reason for his action throughout. And when it would come down to the embassies between Agamemnon’s and Priam, we see both selfness and moments of kindness. It would be decision that would present the…

Illiad: Achilles and Hector Homer’s poems, “The Iliad” and “The Odessy”, are considered masterpieces due to their complexity and the age of their work. Homer’s identity is mysterious. There are various theories about him, about where he was from or whether he existed as a single person; there is a theory of Homer being a group of poets. The Iliad, is and epic poem by Homer in which war is described. Gods and humans take part on this epic poem. The Iliad, considered one of the world’s greatest…

calculated strike against the monarchy either. At its core the storming of the Bastille was a defensive action taken by Parisians fearful that foreign troops would enter the city to kill them and to dissolve the National Assembly. Crowds through out Paris had been raiding church and government buildings in the days and weeks leading up 14 July 1789.…