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How Did Plato And Socrates Find A Copy Of The Famous Work Of Art?

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1. Find a copy of the famous work of art entitled Laocoon – who is the artist? The artist of Laocoon is Doménikos Theotokópoulos
2. Find a copy of the famous work of art entitled Venus de Milo. Where is it located now? The Louvre Museum in Paris
3. From where did Zeus descend? Find a “family tree” of Greek gods. Zeus descended from Cronus and Rhea.
4. Find a copy of the Greek alphabet.
5. Find three (3) common Latin phrases we still use today and define them (original meaning and how we use them today). AURIBUS TENEO LUPUM- this means holding a wolf by its ears. This means that it is sort of like a situation where you do nothing or you do at least something to resolve a situation. It is both a win and a loss. We use this sometimes today …show more content…

Find a copy of the famous work of art entitled Rape of the Sabine Women (account depicted on Aeneas’ shield).
9. How are Plato and Socrates connected? Who is the elder? Plato was one of the best philosphers and socrates was plato’s teacher. Socrates was alive a long time before plato and socrates tought plato everything he knew about life. The elder is socrates.
10. What is hieroglyphic script? It was a formal way of a writing system that the Egyptions used to communicate with each other. It was a combiniation of logographics and alphabetics to make up the script that was used to communicate.
11. Find a picture that demonstrates hieroglyphics.
12. What is the Rosetta Stone text and when was it discovered? It is a slab with 3 types of writing on it. It was found in Egypt in 196 BC
13. What is the Torah? In what year was it assembled? It is a book of the first five Hebrew writings that Moses wrote. 1312 BC
14. Anything that occurred in history prior to 3000 BC is referred to as what? Why? Ancient times and because it was before history and there is not any writings or documentation on anything from that early time period.
15. Define polytheism. Polytheism is the belief in more than one …show more content…

Read about and summarize the legend of Remus and Romulus. This was a very interesting read. These two boys were concieved by Rhea Silvia which whom was a Vestal Virgin which means that she bound to never have intercourse and never bear children. The punishment for breaking the rules is supposed to be death while still alive. The boys were born and they were also to be killed by the earths elements so that the kingdom would not be punished. However, they were not killed but instead sent up a river where this couple found them and raised them as their own. One of the brothers were put in jail of a sort and the other went to save him and ended up killing the current king that had sentenced them to their death all those years

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