Many of our common idioms are found in part or whole in the Bible. There are a number of them from the Old Testament. Eat, drink and be merry The original line from Ecclesiastes 8: 15 is: “a man has no better thing under the sun that to eat and to drink and be merry.” ...
To study Persephone is to study a goddess of great mystery and striking contrasts. She has a dual nature and is even known by two different names. She is Kore; goddess of spring and fertility, a beautiful maiden beloved by her mother, picking flowers in a field. She is Persephone; queen of the underworld, goddess ...
While Abraham Lincoln may best be known as the President who served during the Civil War and was the author and presenter of the Emancipation Proclamation, he led a very private life that often times, due to his wife’s behavior, became public. Lincoln helped form the Republican Party to help take a stance on the ...
In July of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia towards a small town in central Pennsylvania, determined to force a truce from the Union by a bold, unprecedented invasion of the north. His chief adversary was Major General George G. Meade, whose Army of the Potomac consisted of 95,000 ...
In America, especially around St. Patrick’s Day, you can just open the window to your home or car and hear people basically shouting their Irish pride. Not that this is not great, but some people hardly realize their background’s history. If you are going to shout about your Irish pride and put the Irish flag ...
Okay, here’s a little experiment in word association. I’m going to say a word and you’re going to make some mental connections. Ready? Here goes: Victorian. Let me take a guess on what kind of mental connections you made. Sherlock Holmes. Charles Dickens. Gas lamps. Debtors prison. Jack the Ripper. Child labor. Sexual repression. Prudery. ...
The oldest city in America, St. Augustine, Florida has many secrets. In this particular city you will find a college that has the unfortunate situation of being haunted. Flagler College is one of those haunted places that for those who encounter it seldom view it the same afterwards. Henry Morrison Flagler was an oil magnate ...
We need affirmative action in America, and I am glad that we do have it. Some people may believe that we once needed it, but that it is no longer necessary because there is less discrimination. It is true that discrimination has decreased, but it has not disappeared. Minorities are still suffering injustices. Women still ...
One of the distinguishing characteristics about the Romans was their practical and utilitarian nature. Whereas the Greeks are acknowledged by their abstract and philosophical ideas, the Romans, on the other hand, had a knack for improving on the discoveries and techniques of their predecessors. This is not to say that they didn’t invent, but, for ...
General information about Curse Tablets has been gathered from Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden, specifically his chapter “Curses.” This essay focuses on the curse tablets of Ancient Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic period. Buried across what was Ancient Greece are curse tablets, or binding spells (in ...
