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…Hospitality is a key concept in The Odyssey. In the ancient world, travelers and strangers were to be given hospitality with no questions asked. A visitor to a palace would receive immediate hospitality, as a host knows that there is a possibility…

…The first part of this paper will compare two ancient cultures, the Shang Dynasty China and the Moche of Peru. Initially we will look separately at the following aspects of each culture, physical technology, social technology, art and architecture…

…Place yourself in an ancient world. On September 28th, 2000 my boyfriend and myself attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City, to visit an archeological exhibit on Egyptian Art. Located in the first floor off 83rd street…

…are not measured by how much money is taken to build something magnificent, but by faith or beauty of the building itself. For example, the ancient pyramids may have taken a lot of time and money, but they were used for great rulers when they entered eternal death…

…).         The food at a typical Spartan barracks was designed to fill a person and keep him alive, but nothing more. An ancient story tells the tale of two outsiders who were invited to eat in a Spartan barracks. One of the two took sip of the black broth from a bowl…

…As time progressed through the various ages, Ancient to Renaissance, a trend began to form in the literature. The Ancient periods, reflected in the writings of the Taoists and the Greeks, were basically a time of transcendentalism. The gods of this era…

…. WORKS CITED Gochber, Donald S, ed. Plato's The Republic. Classics of Western Thought. 4th ed. Vol. 1. The Ancient World. Forth Worth, TX: Narcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992. 10:327-48. Gochber, Donald S. ed. Livy's The History…

…direction as the stars of Leo. These are themselves at different distances. It is a bit like holding a hand against a building saying the hand is IN the the building. Mars is said to be the god of war because its red colour reminded the ancients of blood. Mars…

…other subjects were myths, Portraits, and ancient Greece. Later in his career Raphael would paint St. George as a grown man in St. George and the Dragon. What is so beautiful about The Madonna of the Golden Finch is the bold and deep colors and the even…

…Studies about sleep have been going on for many years, but we are still a long ways off from knowing everything there is to know about sleep and how it affects the human body. The Ancient Greeks, one of the first to study sleep, believed…