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Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know little about his achievements. There is nothing that is truly accurate pertaining to Pythagoras's writings. Today Pythagoras is certainly a mysterious figure. Little is known of Pythagoras's childhood. Pythagoras's father was Mnesarchus, and his mother was Pythais. Mnesarchus was a merchant who came from Tyre. Pythais was a native of Samos. As

From the beginning of times, music has played an important role in everyone’s life. At first, it started with drum-based and percussion instruments made out of what was available as rocks and sticks. Our ancestors proved that human beings have an innate need of music. Nowadays, no one teaches a baby to follow the beat of a song, he just naturally lets his body get involved with the rhythm. Since the prehistoric era to Christian times, several forms of music have developed leaving a trail to new

Little is known about the Greek Poet Sappho. Just like her poems, pieces of her life have been lost over time. What we do know is Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos around the turn on the seventh and six centuries BCE. She composed songs with a lyre accompaniment known as lyric poetry. These poems were collected into nine volumes and what has survived exist in fragments (Williamson). Fragment 16 is known today as "The Ode to Anactoria.” It was only recently found in Egypt on an ancient paper called

Apollo was the god of truth, healing, science, and music; but Apollo’s mane job was to push the sun across the sky. Apollo was known to be a sharp shooter with his silver bow he carries in his hand. Apollo was most recognized by the bow and arrow, lyre, the sun, and the python, the one Apollo is most common for is the sun. One myth is about Apollo’s fight with the Python. It was against the law to kill this Python, so Apollo took it and buried it on Mount Parnassus. Apollo had a twin sister called

Salomé Ureña de Henríquez is one of the most influential poets of the Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century. Her roles as a daughter, writer, patriot, teacher, wife, and mother blended throughout her life, and inspired her acclaimed poems. As an advocate for women’s education, she opened the doors of higher education to the women of her period and then on. Salomé Ureña de Henríquez was born 21 October 1850 in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Nicolás Ureña de Mendoza and

Commanding to be proclaimed upon a mountain-top, “Ode to the West Wind” is crafted with such a structure and style that even the seasoned literary connoisseur is overwhelmed. Boasting a lofty seventy lines, this masterpiece is no piece of cake to digest. Digging deeper into Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1819 composition, one can see the old cliché “when one door closes, another opens.” This theme is abundant throughout the work and also reaches its prime in the last line of the poem, “If Winter comes,

The beautiful “Three Sided Relief”, also known as the “Boston Throne”, is a treasure of the Museum of Fine Arts, as it is an original relief from the Early Classical Period of Greek art. Though it was found in Rome, it is not a Roman copy of the relief, which makes it incredibly unique. The Three Sided Relief was found in a private villa on via Boncampagni. The intriguing part of this discovery was that the Three Sided Relief was found in the same region as the Ludovisi Relief, a relief

Soon a generation of young poets began various experiments, which led to the creation of modern poetry. Some regarded themselves as the followers of Nima Youshij, but many, though inspired by his innovations tried to find an independent path. Fereidoon Tavallali, for instance, remained very restrained in his innovations, limiting them to a small variation of form. He usually divided his poems into verses of four hemistiches, with the second and fourth hemistich of each verse having the same rhymes

Sparta vs. Athens daily life. In the past unit we have discussed about poleis and compared how free men, in both, Sparta and Athens were in control of political affairs, however we are still left wondering how people really lived their lives on day to day basis. I feel that the best way to describe it, is by looking at each individual groups, as society at the time was separated by men, woman, slaves and perhaps even looking at how children grow up to become part of one of these groups. The Athenian

UGANDA Uganda is a country located in Africa that is surrounded by Kenya and the Republic of Congo. Uganda’s capital is Kampala and some other major cities would be Gulu, Lira, Mbarara, Jinja, Bwizibwera, Mbale, Mukono, Kasese and Masaka. The coordinates are 1 00 N, 32 00 E and the total area of Uganda is two hundred forty one thirty eight thousand. The land is one hundred ninety seven hundred thousand square kilometers and the water being forty three nine hundred thirty eight thousand square kilometers