Tacitus

Essay 1: Many historians in opposition to the Christian Faith try to invalidate Catholicism by claiming that the Gospels are not historically reliable. This accusation is entirely false and can logically be disproven by using the five criteria for judging the historical reliability of documents. Is there eyewitness testimony? Where the documents written within living memory of the events? Do outside, unbiased, sources agree? Do the events relayed in the documents sound ridiculously untrue? And…

Roman society was built on the back of slaves. Slaves were an essential asset to all Roman Imperials. Roman slavery defined Imperial society, and without it, life would have fallen apart. This essay will be focusing primarily on Italy, as this was the centre of Imperial Roman society, in addition to the fact that we have the best estimate of the numbers of slaves in this area. This essay will be structured and analyzed as follows. First will be the number of slaves who were in the Roman Empire.…

cover it all would be an effort in futility. It is without question that the Starks are viewed as the protagonists of the tale. The deep-seated honor, and traditions portraited by the people of the north hails from Germania and was well document by Tacitus who stated “every German, according to his means, receives his guest with a well-furnished table.” An interesting aside and one that is unlikely to be known is that the ‘shaming of Cersei’ for adultery also hails from Germanic descent. It is…

could simply be just an accident, but if it continues in greater numbers, America, and the police system will slowly fall into tyranny. This book provides a historical background that partially deals with the rights of the accused. A specific Roman, Tacitus, found accountability in Germanic law. The Germans would allow the defendant in modern day terms to clear himself by “producing twelve of his equals who were to swear with him that he was innocent”. This is similar to a modern day Jury, both…

Complementary Field Exam RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Race and ethnicity are both important aspects of identity in the modern world. Given their centrality in today’s identity politics, the study of race and ethnicity has naturally found its way into the pages of studies on the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks and Romans are thought to have been the progenitors of ideas and philosophies which the modern “Western” world…

Development of the Individual Everything that has happened today has been based off of what happened yesterday. The past has developed the present and created an environment that has allowed advancements. Through the centuries of mankind, there has been significant ideas and thoughts that have changed and evolved. This can be seen in ideas such as the individual. The individual has dramatically changed through the ages and developed mankind into what we know today. This essay will examine…

The Bible is constantly scrutinized about its’ truth, credibility, and accurateness; in the end it is all true. There are countless groups and people that try to tear down the Bible but they all end of failing. This fall happens because the Bible is full of hard facts that are credible in their teachings, and give life to Jesus Christ. In the book The Case for Christ Lee Strobel comes to the conclusion that all the evidence proves that Christ is real. If all the evidence matches the teachings…