Tuesday, November 9, 2010

10 interesting things.



1. The trojan war is what the Iliad is about.
2. Sparta and athens were at war with each other for 27 years.
3. Athens was the birthplace of drama philosophy and democracy.
4. The 27 year war was called the Peloponnesian war.
5. Men served the military untill the were 60 years old.
6. At the age of 7 children were sent off to military school.
7. Aesop was thought to be a slave.
8. Alexander the great united Greece, Persia, Egypt and parts of India for 1 empire.
9. Early Greeks were called Mycenaens.
10. Greece had Hellenistic culture which combined Greece with Egypt, Persia and Indian influences.

What i think when i think about Tyler

HELLO TYLER! ENJOY YOU IDIOT

Monday, November 8, 2010

7 Gods of The Iliad


Aphrodite-The goddess of love and beauty who favors the Trojans


Apollo-The god of healing, music, poetry, and prophecy. Favors and protects the Trojans.


Athena-The goddess of wisdom and warfare who protects the greeks.


Hera- The queen of the gods, sister and wife of zeus who also favored the Greeks.


Hermes- The messenger of the gods.


Thetis- A sea goddess, mother of Achilles.


Zeus- The king of the gods, father of Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, and Hermes; for the most part doesnt take side in the war.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Epic of Gilgamesh



In the Epic of Gilgamesh is one third god and two thirds human. Utnapishtum is a God that has everlasting life and immortality. On his journey to find Utnapichtum to figure out how he got the ability to become immortal he encounter obsticles that he must overcome. Gilgamesh doesnt find immortalit, the lesson learned here is that you cant live forever and to live life to its fullest potential.

Book of Ruth



In The book of Ruth, Ruth is a loyal and honest person who works hard in the feilds. She leaves her family to go with Naomi, her mother inlaw's home town so that she wouldnt be going alone. Ruth feels like an outsider going to her mother inlaws hometown. Ruth choose to go because she didnt want to be with her family and she didnt want Naomi to be alone.

Creation and Fall



From Genesis comes the Creation and Fall story. In the Hebrew Bible God is the creator of life, the plants, animals, and humans. God wants his Creations to obey him, so he asks Adam and Eve to resist tempations and not eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Adam and EVe eventually give into tempation and eat the apple. God knowing all that happends knows that Adam and Eve have disboeyed him. For this God throws Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, Eve is then pregnant with labor pains and Adam is left to do hard labor work.

Book of the Dead



In this piece of literature Osiris and Isis are the gods. It explains that people when they pass on bring with them their belongings and or loved ones. Here is where Osiris and Isis decide wheather or not these people diserve to move onto the after life; which was thought to be average life just more elaborate and laid back.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Adoration of the Disk



In Adoration of the Disk an Egyptian pharaoh that goes by the name of Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt about 1353-1336 B.C. Akhenten rejected the traditional worship of many gods or goddesses. Instead he declared that the sun god Aten was the one and only true god. In this peice of literature we can learn that this culture praises the gods.

Psalm 23



In Psalm 23 from King James Bible it is about the lord being ones shepherd. just like a shepherd the Lord leads people, "He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness...I wil fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Parable of the Prodigal Son



In this picture it shows a son coming back to his father. In this writing from the New Testament he said, "Acertain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, 'Father give me the portion of goods that falleth to me." after the youngest gathered his belongings he took a trip out into the country side and wasted his substance with riotous living. he came back a poor man broke with nothing and his father welcomes him back with open arms and celebrates his return. On the other hand in the mean time the other brother does not recieve anything. He continues to work in the fields untl his father comes out to urge him to come in and join the celebration. In the end the father gives the oldest brother what eventually was going to become his.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Noah and the Flood


God is fed up with humans not respecting him and not obeying him no he sends a flood to punish those who miss treated God. God comes to Noah and tells him he is sending a flood, so it gives time for Noah to build a boat. He also tells Noah to bring two of every animal he could and his family. At the end of the forty days the waters start to decrease. Noah lets go a dove from the boat to fell him when the waters have finally vanish.