Classical Paragraph

Roman Empire grew and developed over its existence. Rome began around 1000BC as a village of small huts. Over time they grew and ruled over all of Italy by 200BC and started invading their neighbours. From 100 Facts on Ancient Rome, I learned that while Rome started out small it grew into an Empire that controlled most of the known world at the time.

Source

100 Facts on Ancient Rome, Miles Kelly Publishing, This edition published in 2008, Copyright 2001

Campania is a coastal plain where the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are located. The Coastal plain is located 200 kilometres south of Rome. It is known both in ancient times and today for its temperature, climate and beautiful landscape.

Source

Cameron, Kate and Lawless, Jenifer, Secrets of Vesuvius: Unlocking Pompeii and Herculaneum, Nelson Cengage Learning, Copyright 2006 Cengage Learning Australia Pty Limited

Roman art is essential to the history and lives of Roman women.

Source

I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, Hull Printing Company Meriden Connecticut, 1996, ISBN 0-89467-075-1

Titans

For the last couple of weeks in Classics, we have been looking at the Titans in Greek mythology. The titans are the children of the Primordials Gaea and Oranus and Kronos and Rhea are the parents of the Olympains.

Here is the slide I made about Hyperion.

We had to write a paragraph comaring a greek story to a story from another culture. I compeared the Greek story of Rhea giving her husband a rock instead of their son to eat and the Egyptain story of Isis killing the king of gods to make way for her son.

In some cultures, a women’s power comes from her role as mother to her children as shown in their stories. In Greek mythology Rhea shows her power by tricking her husband Kronos into eating a rock, saving her youngest child Zeus. Her love for her children motivating her to save her youngest help save the rest of her children who had been eaten by Kronos. Similarly, in Aceint Egyptian stories Isis shows her power by killing the king, and the god of the sun Ra. Ra’s throne is then pasted to her son Horus. These two stories show the power that mothers have in their culture through their children.