Kanon Essays

What is this place? Filled with this foggy, filthy air; am I alive? What are these weird creatures that flow around like naked innocent children with pair of wings? I should be dead, as I remembered that Fife--a non women born child, cuts down my crown and left me with full betrayal. Not loyal, Macduff is not loyal, he cannot act as a brave man as he betrayed me just like I did to Duncan. I’ve been tricked by those three weird sisters, and those apparitions which gains me confidence. I’ve gained

The Nereids are not as fair as her. She had told her husband that one night, a thoughtless comment spoken after the sweet stain of wine dragged at her mind and loosened her tongue. She used to like the way the wine darkened her eyes, and dyed her full lips that dull purple. Those fifty daughters of Nereus had heard those words, and their anger carried them to Poseidon. Gods were never to be angered, after all. And a mortal claiming superiority to the gods was cause for anger indeed. He

men, with the primary subjects of his works being male athletes with idealized body proportions. He was interested with the mathematical proportions of the human form, which led him to write an essay the Kanon, on the proportions of humans. The Doryphoros is an illustration of his writings in Kanon on the symmetria between the body parts. Polykleitos achieved a balance between muscular tensions and relaxation due to the chiastic principle that he relied on. “Scholars agree that Polykleitos based his

The Bible was written by more than forty different people over a period of 1500-1600 years. It was written in three different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The writers were from different walks of life. Some were educated, while others were not. Among the writers you will find shepherds, kings, scribes, fishermen, prophets, missionaries, tax collectors, a doctor, and many other professions. Many of the writers never met each other, yet the words they all wrote came together to form the greatest

Have you ever thought of how we got the Bible that we have and why some churches uses other books in addition to the sixty-six in our bible? Catholic bible includes other books known as Apocrypha, then how do we know if the books in our Bible are the books God wants us to have and that other books that are not inspired by Him. In the early church, many books were moving around the churches and some of these books carried teachings which caused a lot of problems in the church. A lot of controversial