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Zodiac

The Zodiac comes from the combination of Greek astronomy and Greek mythology.

• Aries: The origin of this comes from the story of the golden ram. At the end of this story after Heracles sends a Golden Ram to save Phrixius, he sacrifices it to Zeus. Zeus then placed the ram in tie heavens for all to see.
• Taurus: The origin of this comes from the story of Europa and the Bull. This bull was placed in the skies by Zeus to commemorate his affair with Europa.
• Cancer: The origin of this comes from the story of the 12 Trials of Heracles. The crab was sent into the skies as a tribute for its attempt to stop Hera's most hated of Zeus' children, Heracles.
• Gemini: The origin of this comes from the story of Castor and Pollux. Castor was killed in battle in the story and his brother was so grief stricken that he took his own life to join his brother in the after-life. Zeus placed them in the sky to commemorate their love for each other.
• Leo: The origin of this comes from the story of the 12 Trials of Heracles. The lion of Nemea was placed among the stars by Zeus because his son overcame this first trial.
• Virgo: The origin of this comes from the story of Pandora. As a rememberance of innocence lost, Astraea was placed amongst the stars in the form of Virgo.
• Libra: The origin of this comes from the balance of justice, and is located next to Virgo.
• Scorpio: The origin of this comes from the Tale of Orion. The Scorpion which killed Orion and Orion himself was placed in the stars by Zeus.
• Saggitarius: The origin of this comes from the story of the centaur Cheiron and Heracles. Heracles had previously shot his friend Chieron with a poison arrow in the leg, and then promised to make it up to him somehow. So Heracles found Prothemus who needed someone to take his place so that he didn't die.Cheiron took his place so that he could ease his own pain, and he was placed in the stars by Zeus.
• Capricorn: The origin of this comes from the story of Amalthea, the goat who fed Zeus when he was an infant hiding from his father Cronos. Zeus put her in the sky.
• Aquarius: The origin of this comes from the story of Deucalion Flood.
• Pisces: The origin of this comes from the story Aphrodite and Eros being changed into two fish by Zeus to escape. Athena then placed the two fish in the stars.

Days of the Week

English:

• Sunday: This day comes from the Old English Sunnandaeg meaning "Day of the Sun"and of the latin phrase of Dies Solis.
• Monday: This day comes from the Old English Monandaeg meaning "Day of the Moon" and of the Latin phrase Dies Lunae.
• Tuesday: This day comes from the Old English Tiwesdaeg meaning "Tyrs Day" (the Norse god of war) and from the Latin word Dies Martis.
• Wednesday: This day comes from the Old English Wadnesdaeg meaning "Wodens Day" (the highest god in Norse mythology) and from the Latin word Dies Murcurii (from the Roman god Mercury).
• Thursday: This day comes from the Old English Punresdaeg meaning "Thors Day" (from the Norse god Thor) and from the Latin word "Dies Lovis" (from the Roman god Jupiter).
• Friday: This day comes from the Old English Fridgedaeg meaning the "Day of Fridge" (from the Germanic goddess of Beauty Frigg) and from the Latin word "Dies Veneris"(from the Roman goddess Venus).
• Saturday: This day comes from the Old English "Saturnaesdaeg" and from the Latin word "Dies Saturni" (from the Roman god Saturn).

Spanish:

• Domingo: This day comes from the Latin word for "The Lord's Day".
• Lunes: This day comes from the Latin word for the moon.
• Martes: This day comes from the Latin word for the Mars, a Roman god and planet alike.
• Miercoles: This day comes from the Latin word for Mercury, a Roman god and planet alike.
• Jueves: This day comes from the Latin word for Jupiter (Jovian),a Roman god and planet alike.
• Viernes: This day comes from the Latin word for Venus, a Roman god and planet alike.
• Sabado:This day comes from the Hebrew word for Sabbath (which is the Lord's day of rest in the Creation account of Genesis).

OLD AGE IS NOT A TIME FOR DISPAIR

O miserable old age, how many humans despise being able to see in that stage of a long lifetime! Death is either completely neglected, if the spirit is extinguished, even though you may wish it, if your spirit is led to some eternal place. What therefore should I be afraid of, if either I am not poor after death, or will I even be rich? But a young person hopes for victory to be long; they hope for old age not power. Young people however hope foolishly; What the truly foolish have for how the uncertain regard the certain, the false regard the truth? Old age, in which there are no hopes, happiness nevertheless is how the young person, and having smaller anxiety, because this because that (young person) hopes that now has (old age); they wish to live a long life, here they live long.
Although, o that good, is someone "long" in human nature? For even if someone lived for a very long time (having, just as I see as I write, a certain Spanish king, who lived for a hundred and twenty years), me not having to see long in is someone from the extreme. The hour and the day and the month and the year indeed depart, and not to elapse withdraw ever at any time and not to know the power of the future. Because time gives peace, I ought to go happy and to be content.

New Google Earth Rome Attatchment

Google Earth has come out with a new 3-D pop-up attatchment for users to explore. The new installment allows users to explore through the ancient Roman city, and to gape in awe at the amazing detail in which the creators put into it. Every important structure in the city can be clicked on and give details about the structure with which it is attatched. Such structures as the Collisseum, temples, and forum can be seen in great detail, in and outof the structure.

It was like any other normal day in in the Kitchen Cabinet; the dishwasher was humming, the sink was running, and the wind from outside was blowing in quite the breeze. Szchwan Noodle Salad , though, could sense that something was wrong; THE CABNET WAS SHRINKING!!!! Garbanazos and Cannellini also noticed this and they decided to go to the all wise Master Market Pantry. Master Market Pantry told them that Chicken Noodle Bean Sprouts was the only thing that could save all the cannd goods from being

Chapter 27 Vocabulary Test

1. delatactio-delight
2. nepos- grandson
3. sol- sun
4. dilegens- diligent
5. dissimils- unlike
6. graecilis- slender
7. humilis- humble
8. maeor- greater
9. primus- first
10. quot- how many
11. similis- similar
12. superus- above
13. utilis- useful

Cumulative Test

23.1: Watching The Orator At Work
Now the great orator rises, to plead a case: every seat in the law court is occupied; the raised platform for magistrate’s chairs are full; The judge wanting to hear all his words signals for silence. Every eye looks up to him. Then there is much applause, then more applause. The orator has touched the spirit of the audience. He wants the audience to be moved by fear or pity, fear or pity suppresses them to be afraid or to weep.
24.2: Caesar's Camp Is Attaked By Belgians
Caesar had to doo all these things at one time: raise the standard, signal the war trumpet, which called the soldiers to raise their arms; he had to call the soldiers from their labors; he had to prepare the line of battle. So for a great shortness in time he had to hinder the attack and the enemies’ arrival. An so the commanders, on account of the speed and proximity of the enemy, Caesar’s commands were not expected, but they did what they could on their own.
25.1 The Character of Cataline's Followers
But for what reason, for such a long time, do we talk about one enemy (Cataline), and an enemy who does now say he is an enemy, and why, what city wall lies between us, not fear: Concerning this, who are in the heart of the city, who are among us, do we say nothing?

Trojan Horse

Horses were a major trade product in Troy. Because of this the Trojans favored the horse because of the vast amounts of wealth it brought, and uses it had. Therefore the Trojan Horse would have been a much favored metaphor, and an obvious much more exciting story than anything else. The Trojan Horse is thought to perhaps have been an earthquake, because Poseidon was not only god of the sea and horses, but of the sea as well. Another explanation can be the Greeks perhaps disguising themselves as the cavalry unit that Hector led, or a siege engine that the ancient military would often name after animals.

http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history.html

Slaughtering of the Cattle

As Odysseus and his men traveled back home from Troy they were to pass that island of Thrinacia, but the goddess Circe told them to pass the island. Odysseus, though, had a mutiny on his hands and decided to appease his men by going on the island. He told his men not to touch anything, though, as the deal breaker. As they got to shore, a southern wind that would have blown them back to Crete. As their month supplies wasted away, Odysseus went inland, and his men slaughtered the cattle of Helios by the encouraging of by Eurylochus. Helios then killed Odysseus' men and destroyed his last ship.

Homer, Odyssey, XII.261-419.

Animal Sacrifice In Greece

Animal sacrifice usuually took place right after a procession through the city along with singing and dancing led by a girl with a basket of grain on her head, which led to the temple. Outside the temple was an altar which the animal (usually a bull; sometimes a chicken ), free of deformity and illness, would have been placed upon and killed by the professional priests and butchers. After the bull was led to the altar, the priests and butchers would then 'purify' their hands by washing them with ordinary water. Then the animal was asked whether or not it wanted to be sacrificed (it always wanted to be), and then the animal would be placed upon the altar. The girl would then pour grain all over the animal's body, and the priest took a knife that was hidden in the basket and cut three hairs off the body of the animal and threw them in the fire. Then two men cut the bull's head from its spine, women would let out a shriek, and the blood was caught in a basin. The purpose of this sacrifice was to please the gods, snd to ask them for something like rain.

Skeen, Bradley. "religion and cosmology in ancient Greece." In Bogucki, Peter, ed. Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE49&iPin=ESCAW552&SingleRecord=True (accessed November 10, 2008).

Corinthian. Around 540-530 BC. AD National Archaeological Museum of Athens, No. 16,464."

Athenian red-figure vase, 430-420 BC(now in the Louvre)

Athenian red-figure vase, 430-425 BC(now in the Louvre)

Chapter 26 Vocabulary Test

1. cena- to dine
2. forum- marketplace
3. lex- law
4. limin- threshhold
5. lux- light
6. mensa- table
7. nox- night
8. somnus- sleep
9. pudicus-prayer
10. superbus- above
11. Bonus: Tristus- sad

THE DEATH OF LAOCOON AND TROY

Here another great fear (O miserable story!) terrifies our blind spirit. Laocoon, made by fortune a priest of Neptune, was sacrificing a fierce bull to an altar on the shore. Then twin mighty serpents, pressing from the sea, run to the shore from the insular. And now they were holding the lan and, eyes blazing with fire, were licking their mouths with their hissing tongues.
The whole of us flee; they aim at Laocoon and his son. At first, they catch and kill and devour the bodies of two small boys. They then snatch their brave father, who was running to his miserable boys, and hold and overcome with great coils. He could neither flee nor defend himself from his great wounds, and he himself just as the bull on the altar, raised horrible screams to the sky. At the same time the serpents flee, and seek shelter in the field ofkeen Menerava.
Because Laocoon had thrown a spear into the horse of Minerva, we have though that he had erred and had to pay the penalty; we have been ignorant of the truth. We opened the gate and received that horse into the city; and boys and girls-- O great country, O great gods, O Troy-- they rejoice to touch it. And we rejoice to miserable ourselves, too, to whom that day were the final and also to whom therewill be no relief.

Latin -- Election Day Post

1. Voting in Athens in 500BCE was very participatory. Each citizen would participate in the assembly at least once in his lifetime by lottery drawing. From the assembly key officials, such as generals, were elected to their positions. Under the other reforms of Clisthenes citizens would cast their vote by hand by dropping a white stone for yes and a black stone for no in a box or vase.
2. Citizens in the Roman Republic who voted around 500 BCE would have voted for senators and assemblies. They would have also voted for two consuls, who would check up on each other so too much power could not be wielded unless the consuls used the power conjointly.
3. The Roman Empire really had no voting ability in it after the start of the reign of the emperors. The emperors had the ultimate power over everything. The citizens of Rome and those who had been given voting rights in the Roman empire could vote for assemblies and/or senators.
4. The US government is based mostly upon the Roman Republic in which citizens of the US elect representatives and don't wield the ultimate power.
5. I think the practice of the Republic would work the best in the ideal world because the participatory vote could be easily tampered with. I think the democratic-republic that the USA has set up is perfect because it combines the best of both types of governments.

Democracy & Participation In Athens By: R.K. SinClair

Athenian Democracy By: PJ Rhodes

On Democracy By: Robert Dahl

Abbott, Frank Frost (1901). A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions. Elibron Classics.

Chapter 25 Vocabulary Test

lingua- language
ferox- fierce
fidelis- faithful
geminus- twin
sapiens- wise
ultimus- final
dehinc- then
hic- here
iunt- he says
credo- to believe
iuceo- to lie
nego- to deny
nesceo- not to know
nuntio- to announce
patefacio- expose
puto- to clean
sparo- to hope for
sescipio- to undertake
Bonus: lex- legs
Bonus: lux- legs
Bonus: Mensa- city
Bonus: nox- night
Bonus: Somnus-some
Bonus: urbanus- citylike
Bonus: invito- life

CAESAR'S CAMP IS ATTACKED BY BELGIANS

Caesar, having sent the horses ahead, led six legions; behind them he placed the equipment of the army; our cavalry, having crossed the river, engaged in battle with the enemy. They retreated repeatedly in and out of the forest up to attack us. Our cavalry would only follow up to woods edge. In the meantime six legions arrived, they cast down their weapons and started to build a camp. As soon as our army's supplies were seen by those people in the forest, they rushed to us and attacked the cavalry with al their force. Since our cavalry struck them with ease, they ran with great speed up to the river. At the same time they were seen with our men, near the woods, and in the river. With speed they ran towards our camp and those who were busy working. Caesar had to do all these things at the same time; he had to raise the flag, signal the war trumpet, which told the soldiers to raise their arms; he had to recall the soldiers from their labors; he had to prepare the army. So for a short time he delayed the attack and the enemy’s arrival. And so the commanders, on account of the speed of the enemy, they did not expect Caesar’s orders, but they did what they could on their own.