… why plays, both tragic and comic, were performed in 5th century Athens. The Aristotelian tradition, defined tragedy as a drama which concerns better than average people (heroes, kings, gods) who suffer a transition from good fortune to bad fortune,…

… more powerful generals took over part of the Macedonian Empire. The coin with the head of Alexander on the obverse, was commissioned by Lysimachus Tetradrachm during his lifetime and there after. The obverse it shows the head of Alexander depicted…

… about Dr. Severerino Antinori. He is an Italian fertility doctor who has claimed that several women are carrying cloned babies. He offers no proof. They are expected in early January. He has refused that to specify if he had any role in the alleged…

… Prologue” of the Canterbury Tales uses both art and propaganda to elaborate on what he sees in each of the people beginning the pilgrimage. When examining the difference between art and propaganda, one first needs to define what exactly these terms…

… “What’s Supposed to Be Going on Here?” he directly challenges what we consider to be a liberal education and proposes a solution based on revamping the “three r’s”. This long-winded look at the mental ignorance of people today offers several interesting…

… development that cubism or surrealism turned out to be, it nevertheless carried quite an influence into the art world and the design of architectural workings. Despite a fairly fleeting exposure, the De Stijl group could possibly be considered the…

… and abstraction must be defined. How useful are the terms of ‘realism’ and ‘abstraction’? ‘Realism a word which is used meaning fidelity to life, but more usefully confined to the 19th century movement in painting, a word that is also used in conjunction…

… Art began in Italy between the sixteen hundreds and the seventeen hundreds. Classicism of the High Renaissance has been replenished during the Baroque period. During the Baroque period of art, the exploration of the fundamental Jan M. Masoncomponents…

… and describes history, particularly World War II, through the lives of several different people. She does not just state the history, she ties each of her topics and shows how they directly effected the other by the actions someone would take. For exampl…

… that Norah Jones, a piano-playing, female, jazz musician, with soft, romantic, feel-good lyrics, could, in this day and age, rack up 5 Grammys, including best album of the year, record of the year and song of the year. No one thought that sweet…