Ancient Rome, at its greatest extent, was 2,509,663 square miles. Everything they did helped the city grow. The Romans used art to help build the empire by showing power, advancement, and religion. These influences helped shape Ancient Rome. The Romans used art to represent power. In many pieces, you can see hints of this power. With the column in the middle of the town square, it shows a superior thing looking above everything else. It represents the hierarchy of the government. Also, the…
Roman and Greek Mythology What is mythology? According to Merriam-Webster, mythology is: “The myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular people” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). The Roman and Greek religions were a central part of the lives of the Roman and Greek peoples. These two vastly different cultures were unified through their similarities in the religions. Both cultures considered themselves as highly religious and thought being highly religious would…
In a ost solar system called kepler an explorer by the name of Duke searches for anything that looks valuable his sidekick, an all knowing artificial intelligence called Matpat by his side. On a nearby planet that is on one side forest and water and the other mechanical. “Ghost.” says Duke. “What is the name of that planet?” “Nuseus” Matpat replies. Duke steers his spaceship for it. On Nuseus there is another explorer who plans to reactive a race of “technoganic” robots called the Vex,the…
Zeus, or Jupiter, is the supreme ruler of the gods of Mount Olympus. He overthrew his father, the titan Kronos, and divided the universe into three parts with his brothers Poseidon and Hades, with Zeus receiving the sky as his domain. Zeus also had many liaisons with many women both mortal and immortal, resulting in godly offspring and demigod heroes. Zeus is also responsible for upholding laws and justice, and for making sure mortal rulers are just. His symbols include lightning and eagles.…
Extramarital affairs are a common matter of discussion nowadays. The secret love affairs in astrology can help you in identifying the reasons behind extramarital affairs. Not only this, you can find remedies for secret love affairs in astrology. There can be many reasons in secret love affairs in astrology that people blindly ignore. But if identified, these reasons can save your marriage. Dominance of Rahu and rise in power in Kalyug society are the two reasons for secret love affairs in…
than they have winning the Powerball (1 in 185,000,000). However, it is still very unlikely, that such an event will happen during our time on Earth. After all, there are between 1.1 and 1.9 million asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter (“Asteroids: In Depth” 2). Who is to say one of those massive asteroids will not go on a collision course with Earth, and cause another extinction-level event, like the one around 66 million years ago, that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of…
In ancient times, gods and goddesses were very important to the Greek and Roman cultures. The Greeks and Romans believed that the gods controlled every aspect of their lives. Weather, fertility, love, and war are just few of the things the gods were believed to control. Ares, a Greek god, and Mars, a Roman god, were the gods of war. Ares and Mars played very similar roles in the Greek and Roman cultures, but they were viewed differently by the people. Ares, the son of Zeus and Hera, was one of…
The most interesting part of the Flint River Aquarium was the planetarium. My first time in the planetarium is when I was very young so I really didn’t understand it. In the planetarium it’s like a movie theater, but instead of looking straight you look upward. They showed us the planets and tested our memory of the moon phases. After the planetarium movie was over we went to the Thronateeska. When we got to the Thronateeska, my group started with archelogy where we had to find ten buried items.…
‘Harry Potter’ is the second highest grossing franchise of all-time, only having been beaten by the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With money like that rolling in, it was only a matter of time before a prequel, sequel, or spin-off was put into the works. Enter ‘Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them’. In the ‘Harry Potter’ universe, there exists a textbook entitled ‘Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them,’ but who wrote it? And what’s his story? This new spin-off film hopes to answer those questions…
spirits were watching over them until they added the Capitoline Triad, which gave them Mars, god of war, Jupiter, god of the sky, his wife Juno, goddess of marriage, and his daughter Minerva, goddess of wisdom. The Romans adopted the Greek mythology and to avoid the hazard of religious zeal in a city they adopted their own patron in a city like Athens…