Essays on Ancient Greece

The sculpture Icarus has always been one that I have been drawn to. The appearance of the figure along with its perfect placement has always provoked thought and entertained me. The steel sculpture, carved, hammered, and welded by Russell Whiting is my favorite of the River Gallery Sculpture Gardens’ exhibits. It is presumably based on...

Everyone has a dream of some sort sometimes you think about it so much and don’t face reality and see that the dream will never come true. Daydreaming is something everyone does. It can be about things you really want, things that are stressing you out, or a certain conflict that is going on in...

Ancient art has many analytical and strategic components that are still being unfolded to this day. In the 16​th​ century, From the type of paint that the artists used to the small features in their painting, the significance will forever be taught and learned by many. The Fall of Icarus was an oil painting by...

Introduction There are different types of leaders in the world who have different types of leadership styles. Not every leader is going to have the same leadership style because their areas of leadership requires the right approach for the situation. Effective leadership is based upon ideas but won’t happen unless those ideas can be communicated...

The film plays an important role in retelling history. The film is perhaps more like these records of daily life than it is like the documents that record great events. Motion pictures provide an experience to feel first-hand what it is like to put yourself in the shoes of certain situations. The movie, 300, directed...

The historical event I chose for my project is the last stand of the three hundred Spartans and eight hundred and fifty or so other Greek warriors at the Thermopylae pass during the Greece-Persian war or as it is better known as the Persian Wars. The Persian Wars were a military struggle between the City-States...

Ancient Greece is known throughout history for its innumerable inventions that have reached us. In the period of 800-146 BCE, the Greeks invented items that have contributed to the culture of the world, some of them are: The watermill was invented in the first half of 3rd-century B.C.E. The water mill was an invention that...

Religion is feelings, beliefs and, emotions that define the relationships between people and god. Belief in God was created in almost the same way in all civilizations. Natural phenomena had played a major role in the formation of people’s religious beliefs. When people were faced with storms, fires, earthquakes and more, they began to think...

Citizens: Ancient Greek societies gave the citizens of Ancient Greece rights and responsibilities. These rights were not given to slaves or other subordinate people. The Greeks limited citizenship to children who were born to parents who were citizens as well. Only on rare occasions would polis let foreigners have citizenship, usually the people who were...

Troy was a city that was proven to be the strongest city in the all of Greek. This was because of the walls of troy that had been said to have stood for a long period of time. Also, because the prince hector who was said to be a warrior Troy always prevailed. Just like...