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    time as well. Wolfgang Petersons Troy is a prime example of a world-renowned poetic being transformed into a Hollywood production. While the 2004 American epic adventure war film, Troy was a huge hit in the box office, and full of world-class actors such as Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom; it does lack many critical events and characters that play a key role in Homer’s Iliad. While the film and poem have the same overall plots, revolving around the takeover of Troy by the Greeks, the feud between

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    Heinrich Schliemann Essay

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    "We could describe (Heinrich) Schliemann's excavations on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the history of art" (qtd. in Duchêne 87). Heinrich Schliemann's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. A poor, uneducated, and motherless boy rises through his hard work

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    Jordan Gold US History 8 Ms. Saunders December 6, 2014 Women’s Education: Emma Willard and Elizabeth Blackwell In the early 1800s, both boys and girls attended public schools, but girls and women had fewer educational opportunities than males. Girls were not usually encouraged to go to high school unless they planned on being school teachers. They were also not encouraged to study subjects such as history, mathematics, or science, as these were considered "male" subjects. Most people believed

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    itself to the question of where and when the event happened. The Trojan War is not an exception to this convention, and fortunately, most historians agree that a site in northwestern Turkey, known as Hisarlik, is the most probable location of ancient Troy. In this site, which was discovered by Heinrich

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    Raging fires and the smell of blood fill the air. People flee and screams can be heard. This is what Troy was likely to have looked like on the eve of the Trojan Horse incident that won the Mycenaeans and their comrades the war. Historians believe the Trojan War to have been a long and tedious endeavor for the Mycenaeans, culminating in their deception of the Trojans that led to the plunder and burning of the great city. The monumental events that are considered the Trojan War have captured the world’s

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    Pietas In The Aeneid

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    Before Augustus came to power, Civil war had ravished the basic principle of the Roman people. Piety, the warning to “fulfil our duties towards our country, our parents, or others connected with us by ties of blood” was undermined by faction. The duty towards country, parents and relatives was less of a bond because faction determined duty rather that Pietas. Thus Rome, a city founded in pietas, was that foundational principle. internal faction undermined the principles of pietas and corrupted its

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    The Trojan War

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    The Trojan War is a somewhat unusual event in Western Civilization, for the simple fact that it is descended from part mythology, and from part history. The war engaged thousands of men besieging the city of Troy, and eventually spawned a number of classic works of literature as well as the lineage of the city and state of Rome as being descended from the largess of the gods (Vergil, 19 B.C). Thus, it is not surprising to find out that the original impetus for the Trojan War began with Olympian gods

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    John V. Luce from Trinity College, Dublin, presented the results from an investigation they had made into the geology of Troy that began in 1977. The geologists compared present geology with the landscapes and coastal features described by Homer in the Illiad and other classical sources. They came to the conclusion that there is a regular consistency between the location of Troy as Hisarlik, the geological evidence and the topography and accounts of battles described in the Iliad. Historians The

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    Throughout Virgil’s Aeneid, there are characters such as Anchises, Creusa, and Dido, whose deaths are relatable to the deaths of heroes in works the audience would be familiar with such as the Odyssey, the Iliad, and The Oresteia. However, Priam’s death differs as being relatable to the deaths of other heroes and by Virgil’s over-dramatization of Priam’s death through incorporating a snake metaphor as well as with the excessive abuse Priam faced on his way to the altar. In other ancient literary

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    The Iliad, written by ancient Greek poet Homer, chronicles the battle and events during the final weeks of The Trojan War, an armed conflict between the Achaeans army and the defenders of Troy. It further recounts the story of the wrath of Achilles, the greatest warrior in the Greek army, against King Agamemnon who unfairly appropriates Briseis, the lovely maiden belonging to Achilles after relinquishing his own maiden, Chryseis, in order to end the plague sweeping the Greek armies. Infuriated by

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