dannys english blog
welcome to my blog. i didnt want to blog in the first place for my teach made me have an account on blogspot. i am now blogging and find it to be very easy yet time consuming. i am not fan of computer for technology is not one of my fields. well now is the time i leave you because i dont want to write anymore than i already have to at school. so good bye... you leave now, go away or i will feed you to donkey.
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.
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.
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