Olympias

In the painting, Olympia receives flowers from a helper who is staring at her, which was very controversial at the time due to the fact she was completely naked and it was seen as immodest. The flowers are presumed to be from a client, which gives more evidence to support her being a prostitute. A black cat is shown standing at Olympia’s feet provide a stark contrast to the dog at Venus of Urbino’s. While the dog is laying docilely at her feet, representing loyalty and love, the cat stands and almost

in the Pella region of Macedonia on July 20, 356 B.C., to parents King Philip II of Macedon and Queen Olympia, daughter of King Neoptolemus. The youthful leader and his sibling were upraised in Pella 's royal court. While growing up, alexander the dark-eyed and curly-headed hardly ever saw his father, who spent most of his time involved in army crusades and extra-marital relationships. While Olympia acted as a influential protagonist model for the boy, Alexander matured to begrudge his father 's nonexistence

The Ancient Olympic Games celebrated culture and politics as much as athleticism. Examining the Ancient Games through these lenses reveals a contradiction between fostering national Greek unity and the rivalries between Greece’s many city-states. Every four years, tens of thousands of Greeks from hundreds of different city-states came together to compete against each other in sports but also to conduct politics and important business. On the one hand, the Games were grounded in religion and myth

Alexander the great was born in 356 BC. His father was Philip II of Macedon and his mother was Olympias she was princess of Epirus. Growing up Alexander rarely saw his father he was usually in long military campaigns. Olympias, a fierce and passive mother, demanded her son’s youth and filled him with wit deep resentment of his father. One of Alexander’s first teachers growing up was Leonidas, a relative of Olympias, who struggled the defiant boy, Philip hired Leonidas to train all the youth in math,

father of all the Greek gods and goddesses. The participants were male citizens from Greece, and these athletes participated in only one event — foot race. Unfortunately, this ancient Olympics did not last forever. The first olympic in 776 BC in Olympia was an significant event

imprudently" (36). With all of the family distractions, Philip tries to focus on his plans for the invasion. He does have one other family matter to take care of before he leaves. Philip fears that Olympias' brother, Alexander of Epirus, will not keep his allegiance with him since he divorced Olympias (36). He arranges the marriage of his daughter Cleopatra to Alexander to secure his allegiance (36). Philip knows he will be gone in battle for a long while, so he invites many "friends, dignitaries

have been being banned, have overcome gender discrimination, and had conflicts with many major historical events. The first ancient Olympic games were held in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC. The Greek people worshipped the gods, and the idea of these games came from the need to have something to dedicate to them. The Greeks used the city of Olympia as a place for worship, and as a meeting place for religious and political practices. At first, the games were only played for one day, but in 684 BC they were

Art History 15 September 2008 Manet's Olympia Artist and people viewing the art work have always had a fascination with the female nude. Even when I was a child my attention was captured by the nude art not because I was a kid and I saw a nude lady , but it forced me to wonder more about why the female nude was so amazing as a tool for art and why this is repeated so many times throughout the centuries. One female nude painting in particular was the subject of controversy and exposed the

the first Olympics was in 776 BC in Ancient Greece. After 1503 years, in 1896 the Olympic Games were recreated as what we know today. The Ancient Games were once dedicated to the Olympian God, Zeus Olympios and were staged on the ancient plains of Olympia, which is also how the word ‘Olympics’ originated from. The modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event, which feature both summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of respectable athletes from over 200 different nations

Alexander III, known more commonly as Alexander the Great, was one of the greatest military rulers of his time. Born to King Philip II and Queen Olympias, the rulers of Macedonia, Alexander would go on to become an influential king and the ruler of the largest empire in the ancient world. Though he would die at a rather young age, his story lives on in books such as "Alexander the Great" by Jacob Abbot. Alexander had the character of an extrordinary leader, which perhaps aids in his recognition today