Olympia

Rosemary’s Baby: The Demonization of Motherhood and Patriarchal Dominated Pregnancy By Chelsea Domaleski Introduction to Cinema Studies Paper 01 “Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers.” Observes Iranian lawyer, former judge and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. “Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.” Attitudes surrounding pregnancy and childbirth have changed throughout history, while still…

Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many others. Two famous photos that showed and went against gender roles in their time are Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp’s Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy (1921) and Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago) or Olympia (1999) More than one photo was created of Marcel Duchamp’s alter ego Rrose Selavy. Photographer Man Ray was the one who took the famous photo Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy in 1921. Man Ray was born in 1890 in Philadelphia and his original name…

Women and gender have played huge roles in our history and in ancient films that we see today. We have seen these gender roles in Troy, 300, Alexander and many more. Throughout ancient history, women have showed and have helped us understand more about different ancient Greek cultures. With there role in society we are able to find out more about how each Ancient Greek city felt about gender and gender roles. The roles that women have played in history and in these movies are different and…

• Sparta females have the privilege of having the freedom of practice sports, such as training with men in physical combat, running as footraces at the Olympia in honor of Hera, a goddess of marriage. Referring to the book on Chapter two the “Women in the Classical World”. • Another privilege that Sparta women’s had in the ancient Greece is that they have the freedom of dressing nicely, spending their time outdoor with people and talking freely to men with no restriction or being punish. •…

commander, king, conqueror of the Persian empire, and explorer of the Indian frontier. It is because of these accomplishments that he is known as,” Alexander the Great.” (History.com staff) Alexander the great was born to King Philip II and Queen Olympia, and was tutored by Aristotle. At the age of 18 years old, Alexander III of Macedonia took charge of the companion cavalry and assisted his father in defeating the Athenian and Theben armies at Chaeronea, this gave…

It is essential to draw upon other similar gold wreaths found around the Mediterranean to better understand the gold wreath at the Getty Villa. Bettina Tsigarida’s “A New Gold Myrtle Wreath From Central Macedonia in the Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki” published in The Annual of the British School at Athens, discusses a gold myrtle wreath, which was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1993, and sent back to Greece in 2007. This gold myrtle wreath currently resides in the…

foreign ideas or languages of different cultures in the majority of the American population, general youth cultures often reject the ideas or beliefs of an opposing culture. During my living in a multitude of places and journey moving from a home near Olympia, Washington…

In both Marina Yeroulanon’s chapter, "Architecture in City and Sanctuary", and Olga Palagia’s chapter of “Architectural Sculpture” and it is apparent that there was a drastic change in the form of architecture over a few centuries in Greek civilization. In Yeroulanon’s chapter there an emphasis on the Doric and Ionic on the evolution of the architecture in terms of the creation of different types of buildings. Palagia’s chapter was more orientated towards the variations in the sculptures with…

“For them [Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Manet] , their very existence as members of the bourgeoisie was problematic, isolating them not from existing social and artistic institutions but creating deeply felt internal dichotomies as well. In other words, their birth into the middle class was a source of internal as well as external alienation.” (Page 13) A- With Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Manet born in the middle class they were limited to a very enclosed but semi-rich lifestyle. With their…

Olympic champions. An olympic athlete would only receive the olive wreath when they have won the entire olympics. Picture The first Olympic games took place during 776 BC and were dedicated to the olympic gods and took place on the ancient plains of Olympia and continued for twelve centuries. The Olympic games…