In his epic, The Odyssey, he presents an epic hero that displays the qualities that are valued by the society from which he comes. ... By studying Odysseus's reactions in the various adventures of The Odyssey, the modern reader can hypothesize that the Greek society of 900 B.C. valued the following characteristics; emotion, beauty, and loyalty in their heroes. ... In Homer's Epic, The Odyssey, it's main character Odysseus set the highest standards of an epic hero. ...

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Virgil's Aeneid attacked basic Greek ideas. The Greeks were looked upon negatively by the Romans. The Romans disagreed with the Greek ideals, religion, and most importantly-fate. The Romans disagreed with the Greeks on almost every major aspect of the Greek culture. The Roman ideals differed gre...

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Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, depicts the culture of ancient Greece. It describes the Greece's way of life from politics to art. I intend to prove that Greek works, both written and non-written, can inspire people to think differently and the total effects these works had as a whole in ...

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"To do something a man cannot do is what a god is considered." These were words spoken by Alexander the Great. He must be referring to himself, because Alexander was a god to many people. He was a man like no other, who could do things other humans could not even imagine. Alexander achieved ...

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Greek Civ versus Roman Civ Today's society in which we live in has based itself on the past achievements and failures of previous civilizations which rose and fell with the hands of time. Every one of those civilizations made certain contributions to history as well as developing human intellectuali...

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Today the modern civilization only exists because of the major accomplishments of Greek or Hellenic people who lived approximately between 1150 B.C.E and 420 B.C.E. They introduced us to politics, democracy, philosophy, metaphysics, literature, architecture, history, entertainment and tragedy. All ...

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Trace the consciousness and relationship of man, of his god, and his place in the world through art, architecture, literature, and music. How has his culture and values grown? The very earliest form of art that can be found came in 15,000 B.C. At this time came a big change in self-express...

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