According to the two poems‚ I do prefer the second one as it felt more emotional in content. In the “Peer of Gods He Seemeth to me”‚ Sapphos explicates upon her emotions in an intricate fashion. For instance‚ she describes her intense passion for a lover in lines such as “my tongue is broken”‚ “ impalpable fire runs tingling”‚ and “sweat runs down in rivers”. I find Sapphos’ poems to be far more complex than most modern love songs today. Nowadays‚ the majority of modern love songs are either commercialized
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As a great national poet Li Bai showed a great concern about war.He expressed ardent praise for soldiers defending the country’s frontiers and relentlessly castigated the warlike ruling class‚ as reflected in his poems Song of the Frontier‚ Wars at the South of the Town‚ and The Song of Ding ‚the Protector-General. Li Bai also wrote many yuelu poems (poems imitating folksongs and ballads) describing the hardships of common people and expressing his deep sympathy for them‚ for example‚ The Ballad
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unthinkable. Our Earth has given birth to singers‚ musicians and composers who have attained mastery in the art of healing music‚ from the olden days‚ throughout the centuries‚ right up to our time. Shall we name but just a few: David‚ Solomon‚ Arion‚ Sappho‚ Terpander‚ the inventor of the 7 stringed Kithara‚ Tibetan Buddhist chants‚ Zen Shakuhachi music‚ ancient native American flute‚ Plainchant‚ Renaissance choral music‚ English and Irish folk songs‚ Monteverdi‚ Josquin des Prez‚ Bach‚ Handel‚ Mozart
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Greek Literature GREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries‚ the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry‚ tragedy‚ comedy‚ and history‚ Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspired‚ influenced
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pedagogical function‚ in general‚ female ritual performance enacted an internalization of temperance and passivity by means of choral education (Ingalls 3). Although physical evidence is lacking to attest to the use of a chorus at Brauron‚ fragments from the works of Sappho and Corinna concerning the choral education of
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same sex relationship was important‚ upper class Romans did not openly admit to being penetrated. If you admitted to having been penetrated you would be considered effeminate. Bisexuality and Homosexuality: It has been noted that out of the first 16 Roman Emperors 15 were bisexual‚ but only the Emperor Hadrian may have actually committed a homosexual act. It has also been noted that the Spartans of Greece viewed homosexuality like a part of military training. According to the Greeks‚ every soldier
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Course | World Cultures I | Test | Week 5 Quiz | Started | 8/14/12 10:01 PM | Submitted | 8/15/12 12:53 AM | Status | Completed | Score | 62 out of 80 points | Time Elapsed | 2 hours‚ 52 minutes out of 3 hours. | Instructions | This quiz consist of 40 multiple choice questions. The first 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 4. The second 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 5. The third 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 6. The last 10 questions cover the
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45. 1. The three great Greek classical philosophers are a. Eurypides‚ Pericles‚ and Darius. b. Diogenes‚ Euclid‚ and Ptolemy. c. Achilles‚ Hippocrates‚ and Sappho. d. Aeneid‚ Antigone‚ and Aristophanes. e. Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle. 2. What can be considered the symbol of Athenian naval success? a. The gunboat b. The trireme c. The astrolabe d. The rowers e. The lateen sail Spar 3.Sparta became a highly militarized society
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Critical Reasoning Assignment I (Exercise 2) 1. Sappho- The type or style of writing that Sappho used in “To Absent Lovers’” was poetry. This literary work was very familiar to me and was fairly easy to comprehend. The basic subject matter of this story was about two people that seemed to be in love with one another that eventually had to separate in the end. Ban Zhao- In the passage “Admonitions For Women‚” it basically tells us about the way of the woman in ancient medieval China. This was
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it codes for a series of tandem repeats of 16 bp in human. Distinctive number of this allele has different number of repeats. These quantities of repeats are exceptional to every human. Primer is bind to this repeats and after amplification this makes fragments of different sized which can be seen on the agarose gel. From the extent of the fragment one can figure the number of repeats by following equation. 113 bp + (n)(16 bp) + 32 bp = fragment size Where‚ n = number of repeats. I think
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