From myth and legend to warfare, transportation, and sport, the horse was integral to
ancient Greek life.
T13: I can describe a study of
Ancient Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
(Examples: because Athens» architecture is linked with Greek mythology, or because Athens is located in a beautiful place, or because famous
ancient Greeks lived in Athens, or because most of the monuments are in ruins, etc.) This assignment will take at least one week to complete.
Not exact matches
we are direct descendants of the Egyptians
living at the times of the pharaohs and the
greeks that have come afterwards... we still use the
ancient demotic language (spoken
ancient Egyptian) in our liturgies and prayers.
In a way then, your
life does not revolve around Jesus but around the likes of Paul et al and the
ancients and some
Greek cynics.
Materiality and
life (soul) are as much mysteries for modern science as they were for
ancient Greek philosophy.
You are actualy no different than an
ancient Greek or Roman, who
lived thewir
lives according to what THEIR «gods» wants.
Aristotle believed that such a capacity is limited to communities roughly the size of the
ancient Greek city «states (approximately fifty thousand people
living in close proximity to each other), but the modern nation «state proves him wrong.
In other words, beyond the
ancient Greek quest for happiness in security, he proposes
living convivially through generosity to the other and through receiving back again from the other.
This is purported to be an improvement over the
ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil
life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a
life relatively immune to disaster.
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ancient Hebrew and / or
Greek?
Long ago in the
ancient timeperiods of
Greek and Roman civilizations, there were these Theological Philosophers who made stories as to just exactly what was the smallest things and their roles in the meanings of
Life.
We are spirit as well as matter, and as St Paul said when he was talking to the best minds of the
ancient Greek world in Athens, it is in God that «we
live and move and have our being», and in communion with God through Jesus Christ lies our personal and social destiny.
Most of my time abroad has been spent on Crete studying the
life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis (cf. Zorba the
Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, Saviors of God and Report to Greco) and the
ancient Minoan culture.
The
ancient Greek word for diet meant `' way of
living» in general and was not referring to the dietary needs and habits of the people.
The modern
life history of Georgia begins with two early Georgian kingdoms of late antiquity, known to
ancient Greeks as Iberia in the east and Colchis in the west, around the shores of the Black Sea.
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Ancient Greek φύσις (physis), meaning «nature, origin», and - λογία -LRB-- logia), meaning «study of» [1]-RRB- is the scientific study of the normal function in
living systems.
For
ancient Greeks, all matter was dynamic,
living matter only more so.
During his childhood, scientists were swiftly uncovering more and more about the inner
life of atoms, upending dogma going back to the
ancient Greeks about the smallest components of all things.
The early tetrapods (from the
Ancient Greek word meaning «four - footed») were the first vertebrates to tread terra firma, developing lungs to capture atmospheric oxygen and turning fins into legs, but with a
life cycle that was still closely tied to aquatic environments.
This was good enough for Plato, the 800 - pound gorilla of
ancient Greek intellectual
life, to include Beauty as one of his famous forms: those transcendent, invisible archetypes of which this reality is nothing but a set of blurry ramshackle imitations.
Compare this, he says, with the teachings of the
ancient Greeks, who believed that knowledge of the natural world could and should form the basis of human values and morality: that the study of nature reveals how we should
live.
Over the past six years, Lee has examined changes in diagrams used in Elements, a collection of 13 books on mathematical and geometric concepts attributed to Euclid, the
ancient Greek mathematician who
lived in Alexandria, Egypt, around 300 BCE.
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In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the
ancient Greeks» idea «that one's
life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»
A psychological horror film brings an
Ancient Greek play to
life as a successful surgeon and his family are caught up in a disturbing tale of revenge and retribution
Clash of the Titans opened up a world of interest in the
life, times and beliefs of the
Ancient Greeks, and I credit it as partially responsible for my pursuit of a degree in Classics.
Some of the tales about these
ancient deities comes to
life through the magic of puppets in Jim Henson's The Story Teller /
Greek Myths.
Acquainting his students with the
lives of the
ancient Greeks and Romans, this passionate teacher runs a classroom where the privileged progeny of society come to be educated.
What Yorgos Lanthimos did which is really great is that he tells this story of a patriarchal system in this almost
ancient Greek way which has been going on for thousands of years: this Roman law that the father can decide on the
life of everybody else in the house.
The entirety of the campaign appears as if it's a painting on the side of
ancient Greek pottery come to
life.
It tells the story of scientific cosmology from the
ancient Greeks to the Hubble Space Telescope, including individuals, ideas, and tools that helped us learn about the universe in which we
live.
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The entire building is wrapped around a common area called the Agora —
Greek for «gathering place» — which is modeled on the public courtyards at the heart of city
life in
ancient Greece.
So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own
life in
ancient Mycenae, the legendary
Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy.
In a gracefully detailed interpretative narrative that stretches from
ancient Greek and Roman mosaics to twentieth - century paintings, art historian Ebert - Schifferer presents the long and fascinating history of the still
life, a highly symbolic genre.
The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In
ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to
life.
The name «Molosser» stems from the
ancient Greek tribe of the Molossians who
lived in the Epirus region, which is an area in today's southeastern Europe (northwestern Greece & southern Albania).
Another
ancient Greek town based nearby is Myra in the Antalya Province — the home of the real
life father Christmas, Saint Nicholas.
There are plenty of amazing things to do in Sicily, from enjoying a Classical
Greek drama performance in an
ancient theatre to climbing the very
live Mt. Etna and dining in luxury in Catania.
Journey back in time while visiting two of the luxurious villas, the House of Cleopatra and the House of Dionysus and imagine the
lives of
ancient Greeks.
An expert private guide will bring
ancient Syracuse to
life as you explore highlights such as the
Greek theater, Roman amphitheater, the
ancient cathedral, the cave known as the Ear of Dionysius, and the historic center of the island of Ortygia.
Among the acquisition highlights during the past two decades have been: in Archaeology, the Renée and Robert Belfer Collection of
Ancient Glass and
Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Demirjian Family European Bronze Age Collection; in Jewish Art and
Life, an illuminated Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (ca. 1457), acquired jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the restored 18th Century Tzedek ve - Shalom Synagogue from Paramaribo, Suriname; and, in the Fine Arts, Nicolas Poussin's «Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem» (1625), Rembrandt van Rijn's «St. Peter in Prison» (1631), the Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art, Jackson Pollock's «Horizontal Composition» (1949), the Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photography, and Gerhard Richter's «Abstraktes Bild» (1997); together with an active and ongoing program of acquisitions in contemporary art, including site - specific commissions by such artists as Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, and Doug and Mike Starn.
Talk: «
LIVE from the NYPL: Werner Herzog» at the New York Public Library One of our favorite filmmakers, Werner Herzog joins «
LIVE from the NYPL» host Paul Holdengräber for a conversation about
Ancient Greek literature and history.
Bound by their 50 x 50 cm paper and defined by their pencil planometrics, the evocative title of the series pays a debt to Frank Stella, but they also make nods to other abstract expressionists, notably Barnett Newman, to the earlier suprematist paintings of Kazimir Malevich, to Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, to
ancient Chinese cities as squares, to Islamic caravanserai and Italian cloisters, to the houses within houses of Oswald Mathias Ungers, and even to the composition of
Greek chorus and 1970s CBGB punk — that is to say, to all the good things in
life.
And they breathe bracing
life into the Getty Villa: When you leave the modern show, the
ancient Greek and Roman collections suddenly look a bit different.»
The incredibly detailed paintings include landmark scenes from his
life including him tranquilizing a polar bear, fishing shirtless, riding a horse shirtless, discovering two
ancient Greek amphorae in the Black Sea, practicing martial arts, writing a book about martial arts, co-piloting a firefighting plane to drop water on a raging forest fire, and painting his series of oil paintings.
While
ancient characters and tales, including Homeric literature, Old Testament stories,
Greek mythology, and European painting are evident sources, underlying the work is the artist's own elegiac confrontation with the joys and struggles that pervade our daily
lives.
This painting powerfully brings to
life the
ancient Greek myth of a monster half - human, half - horse; here, the beast is shown suffering in the wild.
When Victor Gruen invented the American indoor shopping mall, he thought it would «provide the needed place and opportunity for participation in modern community
life that the
ancient Greek Agora, the Medieval Market Place and our own Town Squares provided in the past.»