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    In the cycles of the art world, artistic styles progress over time and new innovative techniques embody an era, but the past periods never truly fade from the mind of the artist, hence periods like the Renaissance, a rebirth of an older era of art. However this retrospective obsession with art can meddle up an art history timeline if a statue is not properly dated to the correct era. This is case the regarding the Piombino Apollo, a statue found at sea in 1832 with a complex history of study…

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    What Is Archaeology

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    during the time period between the Testaments was quickly dispelled after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Through examples like this, we can see the timelessness of the Bible. Even the excavation of a town not mentioned in the Bible, like Pompeii mentioned in Reed’s Visual Guide to the New Testament (Reed 27,31), which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, gives us a clear idea of the type of town in which Paul would have delivered his…

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    * * We want to show the similarities and differences between the Greek Sto and Roman Bazilica with regard to their function of building materials in the field of architecture and building system. * The Ancient Greek Sto : In ancient Greek architecture it’s a hallway surrounded by a wall from the back, columns , designed from two floors and the front row to be a security park used for the general public and used by the merchants in the sale of goods and the artists can propose their…

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    and repealed the law. Although, political influence was made available to upper class Roman women, these freedoms weren’t available to all classes of women. Similar to India, other classes of women were granted freedoms through religious means. In Pompeii, there is evidence of multiple cults who accepted many women into their ranks. For example, the cult of Dionysus encouraged its followers to temporarily abandon their inhibitions through drunkenness, wild dancing, and unrestrained sexuality…

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    Roman Empire is the largest empire in the World. It consist a group of countries or states that controlled by one ruler or government. The example of the countries are Portugal, Spain, Italy, England, France, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, Egypt, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Israel and others. The golden age of Roman Empire was reflected in the growth of tourism. There are some factors that encouraged the growth of tourism under Roman Empire. The first factor is economic factor. Economic factor is…

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    In the early times of Rome, dwellings varied from urban residential living in cities to farmers in the country-side, each came with their own specific reason of why their homes were layered out that way and to what function it served. Domus – is style of structured home that was used by the wealthier and upper class citizens of Rome. The word 'domus' in fact means structure. In English 'domus' comes from the work domestic (translated in Latin: domesticus). It also means 'home' in Slavic…

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    (Sicily). However, Theater was deemed a threat to Roman morality. In Greece, the theater was a symbol of democracy, but the Roman Republic was aristocratic. The oldest truly Roman stone theater was not built in Rome, it was built by colonists in Pompeii in 75 BC, because they were out of the direct reach of the Roman senate. The distinguished, Roman general and political leader, Pompey was permitted to build this theater in 55 BC. This architecture has become the standard for all future Roman…

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    nature of the women, and those women with high ambitious will involve in political intrigue (Sun, 2011). Other than that, the behavior, body appearances, skin tone, hairstyles, the costume, and jewelry that can represent the ideal beauty at that time (Pompeii, Yuen, & Fresard, 2016). Thousand of years ago, gender stereotypes already occur in ancient and tighter and collective…

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    In 1965 George Steven (American Hollywood director) delivered a heroic movie named The Greatest Story Ever Told. It is a retelling of the account of Jesus Christ, from the Birth through the Resurrection. Moreover, the particular movie is famous for its talented cast, and this is the last film of the Claude Rains. The cast of that particular film is famous for their dramas but not much popular for the English films. This is a 2-hour film and not gain much success in the start When this movie was…

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    For the past two decades, we’ve thought of “new media” as the upstart and “old media” as reliable media. But what if new media isn’t as new as we think it is and maybe old media isn’t the oldest type of media? Though many people believe that we have come such a long way from previous social media outlets, nothing has really changed. Twenty years ago, my mother was calling her friends on landlines and meeting up at the local cafes. Today, I’m calling my friends on my iPhone and meeting up at the…

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