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The title mentions choice. It is important to realise that in describing a scene, writers are not merely mechanical mouthpieces for untidy reality. Conscious or not, their choice of what to include in the picture they paint feeds the reader a highly stylised representation of reality. Or rather, a...
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The Greeks were very advanced for their time. They realized that they needed a new form of government and they were able to invent the first democratic government in the world. The democracy that the Greeks came up with was based on two important factors. The...
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Satire can be crude, but we don't have to read it crudely. Before we turn on Satire or let it turn on us, before we gorge ourselves on the lanx satura of delinquents, gluttons, womanisers, social climbers, parasites and the like, let us step outside, if we can, and...
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In scene 441ff Sophocles stages two opposed portraits: Creon regal and authoritative in his kingly robe, staff in hand, a male standing against the background of the city, whilst Antigone bows her head, hair ripped and mourning dress torn, a woman surrounded by the home and family. It is...
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China has the world"s oldest living civilization. It"s written history goes back almost 3,500 years, and the history told by it"s artifacts and artwork goes back much farther. The oldest known works of Chinese art include pottery and jade carvings from the time of 5000 BC. Jade is a general...
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Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptian people did not move around like the prehistoric people. Some areas, such as the Nile valley were fertile and offered greater security for settlements to farm and so survive all year round. People settled in towns and not everybody had to till the soil...
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It is impossible, and undesirable, to separate war in and between ancient Greek poleis from their economies or from their societies, or to separate their economies and societies from each other. Nor is it helpful to consider 'war' as a freestanding factor that can be added, like an ingredient...
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The Ancient Regime French for Old Order was the way society was run, in a period in French history occurring before the French Revolution 1789 – 1799. France was ruled by an absolute monarchy a system where the king was classed as divine – an infallible role King Louis XVI...
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Jesus at Nazareth Questions: 1 Describe what happened when Jesus visited Nazareth and show what people thought about him on this occasion. 2 Comment on how this occasion was fulfilled in Luke's Gospel Answers: 1 Jesus visited Gallilee and then went to his hometown, where...
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Historians have often discussed the causes of the outbreak of the "Great War between Athens and Sparta". Indeed, it seems strange that two city-states, who had fought side by side against Persian invaders not fifty years before should turn on each other in a bloody war. The principal source by...
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