Monumental architecture was an important facet of classical society. Not only would it exhibit the advances in culture that each society was making‚ but it was gave them a chance to show off their wealth‚ power‚ and creativity to other societies. These monuments often took the innovations and collaborations of the country’s top architects and builders to accomplish. They also exemplify the importance of the Mediterranean region in comparison to the world during the BC era and into early CE. First
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Canto I -The Dark Wood-Dantes meets the Lion‚ Wolf‚ and leopard that blocks his path to leave. Meets Virgil Canto II -Ante-Inferno-those who live without disgrace or praise (stuck constantly chasing after a banner (goal) for they never had a goal when they were alive. Passes Acheron‚ guarded by Limbo to enter Limbo. Ghosts do not feel compassion for those in other levels of hell except for their own. Canto III and IV -First circle of hell-limbo-virtuous but un baptized -punishment=no hope
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collage in his art. He would add paper fragments of wallpaper or newspaper pages and paste them into his work. During the 1930s he returned to a more neo-classical style of painting. Another major change was the use of the Minotaur as his motif‚ rather than the harlequin in his paintings. His famous painting called ‘Guernica’ depicted the brutalities‚ and the hopelessness induced by war. In the 1950s he started reinterpreting the works of great masters‚ including Velazquez
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cities on the island of Crete‚ then on main land Thescus slaying the Minotaur Minos = King of Crete; tyrant and rules with an iron fist The Labyrinth = maze that Minos own The Minotaur = beast Half human‚ half bull Minos feed the Minotaur Athenians He sends a number of boys and girls Theseus Outsmarts Minos in the Labyrinth Assisted by Minos’s daughter She gave him a string to help him through the maze Kills the Minotaur Later broke up with Minos’s daughter Arthur Evans = archaeologist
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List of possible subjects on the final exam Achilles- Achilles was a powerful hero in Homer’s Iliad‚ and undoubtedly the greatest warrior on the battlefield at Troy. In his youth‚ he had been a pupil of Chiron. When Achilles was just an infant‚ his mother immersed him in the river Styx‚ which separates the land of the living from the land of the dead‚ to confer on him immortality‚ and to make him invincible in battle. But when doing this‚ she committed a grave error. Through her
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Achelous: River god; son of Oceanus and Tethys and said to be the father of the Sirens. Acheron: One of several Rivers of Underworld. Achilles: Greek warrior; slew Hector at Troy; slain by Paris‚ who wounded him in his vulnerable heel. Actaeon: Hunter; surprised Artemis bathing; changed by her to stag; and killed by his dogs. Admetus: King of Thessaly; his wife‚ Alcestis‚ offered to die in his place. Adonis: Beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite. Aeacus: One of three judges of dead in Hades; son of
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In our analyses of both Maus and Persepolis we determined that the figure of the narrator is always linked to the autobiography in numerous complicated ways‚ and this concept can be taken literally in the context of autography‚ or graphic memoir. The author has the ability to literally insert themselves into the text and narrate from two separate levels. One level inevitably sees the author as the figure who is telling the story‚ and the other sees the author as a character who interacts with the
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The seventh circle of Dante’s hell houses the violent‚ the assassins‚ the tyrants and the war-mongers. The violence in this circle takes on three forms; violence against others or one’s neighbor‚ oneself‚ or God. Those who commit violence against other people or their property‚ the murders and thieves‚ are punished in the first ring of the seventh circle‚ which is a river of blood. Those who commit violence against themselves or their own poverty‚ suicides and squanderers‚ populate the second
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today is the big day! My 2nd grade class and I are going to the Mythical Creature Zoo. We‚ here at the Mythical Creature Academy‚ are in the process training to be zookeepers there. At the zoo‚ there are SO many cool creatures! There are: hydras‚ Minotaurs‚ Hippogriffs‚ a unicorn petting zoo‚ mermaid aquarium with Kelpies and a Kraken‚ a Sphinx‚ and even a Centaur. Because Miss Taylor is such a good teacher‚ she taught us ALL about the cool creatures. Some things she taught me were: to not pet the
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to have kept watch for the return of his son from Crete. Theseus had promised to hoist a white sail if his ship was bringing him home alive. He forgot to do so‚ and seeing the black sail approach and believing his son to have been devoured by the Minotaur‚ Aegeus hurled himself
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