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- 251: Pompey The Great
- ... local success at Dyrrhachium on the coast of Albania. However when he allowed his army to engage, Caesar's at Pharsalus in Thessaly, Greece, in August, he suffered a terrible defeat. Pompey then fled to Egypt to seek isolation. The king of Egypt, however being anxious not to offend Caesar, had Pompey kB.C.
- 252: Alexander the Great
- ... due to royalty. Tyre, a strongly guarded seaport, offered obstinate resistance, but Alexander took it to by storm in 332 after a siege of seven months. Alexander captured Gaza next and then passed on into Egypt, where he was greeted as a deliverer. By these successes the Nile River, the city of Alexandria, which later became the literacy, scientific, and commercial center of the Greek world. Cyrene, the capital of the ... temple and oracle of Amon-Ra, Egyptian god of the sun, whom the Greeks identified as Zeus. The earlier Egyptian pharaohs were believed to be sons of Amon-Ra; and Alexander, the new ruler of Egypt, wanted the god to ac¬ knowledge him as his son. Amon-Ra (Zeus) agreed. I tried doing that the other day and Amon-Ra accepted but I told him that he wasn't good enough ...
- 253: Alchemy
- ... metals, that in it their various substances were incorporated. This black powder was mystically identified with the underworld form of the god Osiris, and consequently was credited with magical properties. Thus there grew up in Egypt the belief that magical powers existed in fluxes and alloys. Probably such a belief existed throughout Europe in connection with the bronze-working castes of its several races. Its was probably in the Byzantium of ... was built, and this is borne out by the circumstance that the art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed ...
- 254: Alchemy
- ... metals, that in it their various substances were incorporated. This black powder was mystically identified with the underworld form of the god Osiris, and consequently was credited with magical properties. Thus there grew up in Egypt the belief that magical powers existed in fluxes and alloys. Probably such a belief existed throughout Europe in connection with the bronze-working castes of its several races. Its was probably in the Byzantium of ... was built, and this is borne out by the circumstance that the art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed ...
- 255: GotMilk
- How did people revere their gods differently among three civilizations? Did they worship with the same general intent? What were gods’ role(s) in people’s lives? A brief exploration into the religions of Egypt, Greece, and the Hebrew people may bring insight to these questions. Although the main idea of higher beings remains constant throughout societies’ religion, their form of presence in people’s lives varies. I will present ... well as resemblance to monotheism and systems of government. Egyptian religion is polytheistic. The gods are present in the form of elements of life – natural forces and human condition. Greek religion is also polytheistic. Like Egypt, the Greek gods exist to represent different aspects of life, but they also play an active social role in the people’s lives. In Greek mythology, the gods have feelings and flaws as the normal ...
- 256: Ozymandias (1818): An Analysis
- ... pattern within the poem, could also represent the toppled pieces of the ancient sculpture lying about in disarray. The name "OzymandiasÓ refers to Ramses II (Ramses the Great), third king of the 19th dynasty of Egypt. Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian in the 1st century BC, recorded the name when he made reference to the Ramesseum -- Ramses II's mortuary temple -- as "the Tomb of Ozymandias." "Ozymandias" is actually a flawed ... 13 BC) was the second longest in Egyptian history. He fought wars against the Hittites and Libyans, and is remembered for his expansive building programs and for the many gigantic statues of him found throughout Egypt. These "works" would certainly have made some "Mighty" people despair -- before time took away the threat. The Ramesseum contains the shattered statue that Shelley was most likely writing about. It was a seated statue which ...
- 257: Mesopotamian Art And Arquitecture
- ... the influence of those who conquered, passed through, or traded with its inhabitants. Mesopotamian-style cylinder seals from the Jamdat Nasr period have been found. Pottery, works in stone, and scarabs were influenced by dynastic Egypt beginning in the 29th century BC. Bronze figurines from Byblos of the early 2nd millennium are more distinctly Phoenician, as are daggers and other ceremonial weapons found there. Although the motifs used by local artisans came from beyond the immediate region--Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, and Mesopotamia--the technique embodied in crafted objects found at Byblos and Ugarit is distinctly Phoenician. Phoenician goldsmiths and silversmiths were skilled artisans, but the quality of their work depended on their ...
- 258: Burial In Different Cultures (
- ... man "at themoment of death and enters the house of Ais, also known as Aides, Aidoneus,and in Attic as Hades." This idea can be compared to the concept of anindividual's ba in ancient Egypt. When someone died, an eternal part ofthem (their ba) would also slip out and seek out the individuals spiritualtwin (their ka) in order to unite with it and facilitate a successfulpassage. Many times in myth ... of the soul would be located. Lion and sphinx were found as gravemarkers and this idea is paralleled in the practices of the natives ofEgypt. A certain "cult image" was buried with the deceased in Egypt inorder to look after and more importantly protect one's ba from beingdisturbed. It also acted as a type of "purge valve" for any ba which mayhave been unjustly disturbed in the tomb. Burial practices ...
- 259: Alexander's Empire
- ... their attack. The Tyrians on the island surrendered in 332 B.C, after seven months of fighting. Alexander's use of huge siege machines at Tyre introduced a new age of warfare. Alexander next entered Egypt. The Egyptians welcomed him as a liberator from Persian rule, and they crowned him pharaoh. On the western edge of the Nile Delta, Alexander founded a city in 331 B.C. and named it Alexandria ... Libyan Desert, a part of the Sahara, to the oasis of Siwah. He consulted the oracle of the god Zeus-Ammon, and, according to legend, the oracle pronounced Alexander the son of god. Alexander left Egypt with an army of 4000,000 foot soldiers and 7,000 cavalry. He crossed the Euphrates and entered Mesopotamia where in 331 B.C. he met the Persian king once more at Gaugamela, east of ...
- 260: The Egyptian Pyramids
- The Egyptian Pyramids There are several reasons why pyramids were being built in Egypt during the times between 3,000 – 1,000 B.C. First of all, the pyramids were to be used for funerary monuments. During this time period Egypt had been divided into great dynasties known as the Predynastic period. The Old Kingdom, what was known as the sixth dynasty for counting back to historic times, conveyed the Egyptian sense of continuity, the overwhelming ...
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