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The ancient Greeks saw the figure of the Greek myth Orion in the nighttime sky. There are several different stories about the birth of Orion. According to one version of the myth, Orion was the son of a poor shepherd called Hyrieus. Once, Zeus, Hermes, and Poseidonstopped by Hyrieus'house. Hyrieus was so generous with his guests that he killed the only animal he had-an ox. Hyrieus was not aware that his guests were gods. The gods wanted to reward Hyrieus'generosity by granting him a wish. Hyrieus'

his training under Pierre Narcisse Guerin. Delacroix was trained in the Neoclassical style, which is shown in his extreme attention to detail and precision in his works. Four of Delacroix's most well know pieces are, Women of Algiers, Massacre at Chios, Liberty Leading the People, and The Death of Sardanapalus. Women of Algiers depicts three women in relaxed positions.The focal point of this painting shifts from woman to woman, this is due to the vibrant colors and position of the figures. As seen

Ancient Greece was a very influential civilization of its time. Ancient Greece was made up of many different city states that United made what we know of as ancient Greece. Each city-state was particularly different than its neighboring states thus causing the different forms of government throughout the land. In this paper, we will compare and contrast the five different forms of government that existed in ancient Greece which is Monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy as forms

was described first as Boeotian by birth and as the son of Poseidon and Eurydale, daughter of the King of Crete (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, “Orion.”). Falling in love with Aero (sometimes called Merope), daughter of the King Oenopion of Chios, he was able to marry her with Oenopion’s permission. One day, Orion drunkenly insulted Aero and Dionysus, requested by Oenopion, blinded Orion and put him in a deep sleep (Hamilton, 438). Orion with Hephaestaus traveled to Helios,

Greek poet Homer, who is attributed to writing the Iliad and the Odyssey. These heroic tales still influence lives today. His world, Ancient Greece, provides the foundation of western civilization. Homer was thought to have been born on the island of Chios, off the western coast of Asia Minor, although seven other cities claim to be Homer’s birth place. He presumably lived and wrote sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC. Homer composed the Iliad, a poem about the ten-year siege of the city of

constellation Orion. When we took the picture the exposure time was about ten minutes. The ISO was right around 400. I want to focus on the mythology and story of Orion. As it is said he was born in Boeotia located in central Greece. He went to visit Chios which is a Greek island. He met and fell in love with Merope who was a mortal princess and the daughter of King Oenopion. One night Orion was under in the influence and tried to woo and force himself upon Merope.

and one sister. He worked with his father in a wool shop as a wool merchant. When he was 14, he dropped out of school and left his fathers wool shop to apprentice himself to a merchant on a trading ship. He took his first voyage to the island of chios in the Aegean sea when he was 19. After several attempts in finding a sponsor for his exploration, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain finally agreed to sponsor him. So

The famous Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC. He was born the illegitimate son of a woman from Aeolis, the Greek speaking region near Troy. There a seven possible places for homers birth, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodes, Argos, and Athenia, but no one truly knows. As a young man homer wandered as far as Ithaca. Unfortunately during these wanderings he loses his sight. which begs the question how did he right the Iliad. After years of wandering he returned

My favorite constellation is Orion's belt, because I like the symmetry of the three stars that form it. It's always the one I see first when I look up at the night sky. The constellation is also known as "The three Kings" or "The three sisters". It's technically a part of the constellation "Orion", but it's also a constellation of it's own. Orion's belt are the three stars that form a straight symmetrical line through Orion's waist. The constellation is named after a greek hunter named Orion. I also

explorers is the age at which they started exploring the seas. Christopher Columbus began his first voyage when he very young. When Columbus was only 19 years old, in 1470, he took his first long voyage on one of his employer’s ships to the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. .However, Amerigo Vespucci began his career on the seas a little later in life. Vespucci left the port of Cadiz in Spain on his first voyage at the age of 43. He travelled to the mainland of Guiana located on the northern Atlantic