Pantheon

Concrete and the Arch HIST 1421: Greek and Roman Civilization University of the People Unit 7 Written Assignment Student #S108497 Rome learned and adapted many architectural and building skills from around their empire. In particular two things allowed Romans to achieve many architectural feats that are still standing today, close to two millennia later. The first item was the development and use of concrete as a building material. The second was the implementation and intelligent use of a true…

culture. Believing it far exceeded their own, they adopted much of the Greeks’ culture. For example, the Greek influences on Roman religion date back far enough that the Romans base their foundation on the story of the Trojan War. Romans adopted a pantheon of gods and goddess. They simply applied their own Roman names to existing Greek deities. The Roman architecture also mimicked the Greek. For example, the Roman temple in Nîmes, France known as Maison Carrée stands like a miniature Greek…

Joseph O’Neill’s, “Netherland,” teaches us about the character of the competitive sport, cricket, and how people specifically behave at the games. O’Neill uses an exciting tone to arouse his audience to be as mentally involved with the sort as the spectators were at the time. The audience of this excerpt is sports fans; O’Neill uses the diction he does to reach out to these audience members and, in turn, they are the ones that are the most intrigued by the excerpt. This also shows that O’Neill’s…

For this extra credit opportunity, I watched the first Republican debates of the 2016 campaign. Given that this assignment is for an advanced public speaking course, I focused most of my attention on the nonverbal communication of the debaters and their use of rhetorical devices, two qualities that distinguish advanced public speakers. During the course of the debate, several candidates showed strengths and weaknesses in these areas. Every candidate appeared to understand the importance of…

In the Ancient and Classical eras, religion played a significant role not only in everyday life but in the political sphere as well. In ancient times, many rulers derived their power from religious sources. In fact, during this period, leaders in many civilizations were viewed as divine figures themselves, giving them absolute power and leaving little room for citizens in their respective societies to affect the political scene in any meaningful way. This idea changed by the beginning of the…

It was named after the leader of the Roman Pantheon and God of thunder. It has also been referred to as the “sky god”. Jupiter was the romanization of the Greek God Zeus. “In the Roman pantheon, Jupiter began as the sky god, concerned mainly with wine festivals and associated with the sacred oak of the Capitol. Eventually, he was attributed the spoils of war and became…

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in a place where fairy tales originated? A country filled with castles and some of the worlds oldest and most beautiful cathedrals? Germany has such a rich history it’s hard to know where to begin looking. Germany is a wonderful place in north-central Europe. When you are in the northern part of Germany, by North Sea and the Baltic Sea, you will see beautiful coastal plains. In the east, the coastal plain stretches southward for one-hundred and…

counterparts or equivalents of the Greek divinities and deities. The Romans also adopted the primordial deities from Greek mythology. Jupiter, the king of the Roman gods is sometimes referred to as Jove, and is the counterpart of Zeus. In ancient Rome, the pantheon of 12 major deities was called the 'Dei Consents ' meaning the Council of Gods. The names of the other principle Roman divinities and deities in Roman Mythology were Juno, Neptune, Ceres, Minerva, Bacchus, Apollo, Diana, Mars, Venus,…

In classical Athens, Nymphs are more companions to the gods in the Greek pantheon, however, the worship of Nymphs aligned mostly with rural and non-elite populations (Larson Preface). In Athens, Nymph’s relationships with male gods were more on the basis of sexual contact or were bounded by a familial sense such as a lover or…

distinguishes it from Arnold’s “Historical Criticism”. Thus, Eliot offers an organic theory and practice of literary criticism. In this, he treats tradition not as a legacy but as an invention of anyone who is ready to create his or her literary pantheon, depending on his literary tastes and positions. This means…