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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pluto and Proserpina (also know as the Rape of Proserpina), 1621-22, marble (Galleria Borghese, Rome). Proserpina is the Latin varient of the mythic Greek Persephone.
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This video describes how to use basic geometry to make a baseball diamond with chalk and a rope. These geometry basics are based on the Elements of Euclid, a Greek mathematician and geometer who lived approximately 2,300 years ago. (05:54)
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May 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM
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NOTE: Nudity. Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the massacre at Chios; Greek families awaiting death or slavery, 1824 Salon, oil on canvas, 164" × 139" (419 cm × 354 cm) (Musée du Louvre, Paris). (03:15)
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Dying Gaul, ancient Roman marble copy of a lost bronze Greek sculpture, c. 220 BCE. (3:32)
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Thousands of years in the making, the Olympics began as part of a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus in the rural Greek town of Olympia. But how did it become the greatest show of sporting excellence on earth? Armand D’Angour explains the evolution of the Olympics. (03:19)
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The Nile is a river in Africa. It is the longest river on Earth (about 6,650 km or 4,132 miles), and flows into the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria. It gets its name from the Greek word Neilos. (01:18)
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2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very audacious goal: to collect all the knowledge in the world under one roof. In its prime, the Library of Alexandria housed an unprecedented number of scrolls and attracted some of the Greek world’s greatest minds. But by the end of the 5th century CE, it had vanished. Elizabeth Cox details the rise and fall of this great building. (04:53)
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“… the murder of Caesar was on the Ides of March, in 44
Before.Common.Era. Cicero was a witness to the murder, though he was not a part of the conspiracy… With Caesar dead the Senate once again mattered. Cicero made the series of speeches to the Senate known as the Philippics (named after the speeches the Greek orator Demosthenes made, to rouse the Athenians to fight Philip of Macedon. These speeches called for the Senate to aid in overcoming
Antony…However, Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were able to come to terms and agreed to share power. Each of them had enemies that he wanted eliminated, and as part of the power-sharing deal each got to eliminate those enemies. Antony put not only Cicero but also his son, his brother, and his nephew on the list of those to be killed…”
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Asteroids are celestial bodies that orbit around the sun. The word asteroid means star-like and is derived from the Greek words – astor (star) and oid (shape). They are believed to be remnants of the humungous cloud of dust and gases that formed the sun and planets over 4 billion years ago. (01:59)
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Ancient Greece was one of the most influential cultures, with Athens at its center. The achievements of Ancient Greece include literature,
philosophy, fine arts are touched upon in this 1:26 video that includes the most famous Greek leaders. A brief overview.
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There is a huge range of ways that gender has been understood and represented in the history of art. We look at a few examples that show us gender is a concept that has never been fixed: Hermaphroditos by the ancient Greeks, Titian's Venus of Urbino, Baule portrait masks, the photographs of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, and Maya stone carvings. (15.39)
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Nikitas Tsimouris (1924 - 2001) brought the complex music of the tsabouna, a type of Greek bagpipe, to Tarpon Springs. He was born in the village of Chora on the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos, one of eight children of a sponge fisherman and citrus sharecropper. He emigrated to Tarpon Springs in 1968, where he worked on sponge boats, in a restaurant, and finally in the stucco trade. In 1991, Tsimouris became the first Floridian to receive a National Heritage Fellowship.
The tsabouna is one of two types of bagpipes in Greece. The gaida, played in mainland Greece, has a single chanter. The tsabouna played in the islands has an untanned goatskin bag turned inside out, blowpipe, and two parallel chanters, each with five finger holes, fitted into a single tube with wax. The tube is often olive wood, while the chanters and reeds are rush or cane. The musician blows air into the bag through the mouthpiece and squeezes the bag to generate sound.
Ethnomusicologist Theodore Grame first recorded Tsimouris and published a paper on the highly ornamented and complex music, characterized by intricate melodies and many notes. Tsimouris also worked with ethnomusicologist Kathleen Monahan, and most extensively with folklorist/anthropologist and friend Anna Lomax Wood.
Ethnic & Immigrant Cultures, Music, Festivals/Customs / South / 1988
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Done in cartoon fashion and very fast paced, this 2:22 long video reviews the history of the Wars and the people who were invovled in it. A good overview or review. Athens' military campaign against the Peloponnesian League that eventually ended the Greek Golden Age, as told by Jeffrey Lewis.
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The colossal temple of Artemis in the port city of Ephesus blended
the size of Greek architecture and the decorative style of the East. It
was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The 3:40 video explains its building and its use. Created to excite and enlighten the public about the past, its relevance to the present and its impact on the future.
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How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth, and from that the distance to and the sizes of the Moon and Sun. Once the Earth/Sun distance was found, parallax was used to find the distance to nearby stars, and that was bootstrapped using brightness to determine the distances to much farther stars. (11:20)
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Antigone
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Delve deeper into the Ancient Greek tragedy 'Antigone' in our two-minute animation (02.24)
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Learn about the Greek physician and philosopher Galen of Pergamon, whose experiments and discoveries changed medicine. (05:10)
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7:23 Video- Philadelphia Mummers Parade January 1st -- is the Crown Jewel of Philadelpha and it's best kept Secret. Channel 17 explains the tradition of the Mummer's Parade in Philadelphia Pa. more:
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/JINGLE_BELLS__DANCE.html
The word mummer is sometimes explained to derive from Middle English mum ("silent") or Greek mommo ("mask"), but is more likely to be associated with Early New High German mummer ("disguised person", attested in Johann Fischart) and vermummen ("to wrap up, to disguise, to mask ones faces"), which itself is derived from or came to be associated with mummen (first attested already in Middle High German by a prohibition in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, 1351)[14] and mum(en)schanz, (Hans Sachs, Nuremberg, 16th cent.), these latter words originally referring to a game or throw (schanz) of dice.
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Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar that lived about 2,000 years ago found a way to measure the circumference of the Earth without using any of the modern tools that we have today. This video explains how he did this by using geometry. (7:29)
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Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC -- c.194 BC) was a Greek scholar nicknamed "Beta." This is because he was considered the second best in so many fields. Despite the dismissive nickname, Eratosthenes is still celebrated to this day for his significant contributions to math, astronomy, and geography. He is perhaps best known for measuring the circumference of the Earth, and for devising the "Sieve of Eratosthenes," a quick method for identifying prime numbers. (03:56)
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Watch the amazing story of Saint George. Today, Saint George according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and officer in the Guard of an emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for failing to recant his Christian faith. As a Christian martyr, he later became one of the most venerated saints in Christianity, and was especially venerated by the Crusaders. George's parents were Christians of Greek background. (14:05)
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Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to c. 5th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.
Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the era of the Persian Wars. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. (48:56)
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In the 1970s thousands of Chickenheads rained from the sky in Europe, making foxes and other wildlife confused and very happy. Why? They were filled with a vaccine to fight the deadliest virus known to humanity – since the 1930s a rabies epidemic had been sweeping across wildlife populations in Europe and humans wanted to finally get rid of the virus once and for all.
Rabies is named after Lyssa, the ancient Greek spirit of mad rage, and has been haunting us for at least 4000 years. It can turn animals into angry beasts and humans into zombies that fear water. But what makes Lyssa fascinating is not just how bizarre and deadly its infection is, but also how incredibly good it is at avoiding our defenses. (11:03)
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Many of us are aware of the ancient Greek civilization and it's massive impact on western history . However, the often overlooked part of Greek history, the era of the great Byzantine Empire, is arguably of almost equal importance. (11:40)
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In this episode: we'll go through the rise and fall of ancient greek civilization. Through most of its history, Greece was poor. In the classical era, though, Greece was incredibly populated and very urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth and classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years. (12:10)
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