Also there was poetry about romance known as Layla and Majnun, something like Romeo and Juliet. Umer El-Hayyam pointed out in astronomy. He made a calendar which is more precise than the Gregorian where he makes a mistake of one day in 5000 years. El-Havarizmi wrote the first and oldest piece on Algebra. Al-Batani was the most famous among the astronomers.
Trojan War- Myth or Legend Paige Gillham The Trojan War is one of the greatest Greek stories that comprise of a great war containing a thousand ships that set sail to claim what was taken from them, one of the most beautiful women Helen of Troy. Written by the Greek poet Homer, the great story has been a debate of myth and legend for many centuries. Not only was the Iliad written 500 years after the great Trojan War, it was meant for entertainment purposes and not as historical evidence which can question is liability and truth. Though there is nothing to say that the whole Iliad is myth, Homer may have based his poetry on a real historical event that could have taken place and that may well have been a great war between Troy and the Greeks. Archaeological evidence claims that it has found Troy in one of 9 different layers at one hillside site first discovered by Heinrich Schliemann.
The Maya Civilization and Astronomy The Maya civilization is characterized of being one of the biggest and wisest civilizations of history, who were known of having the only known fully developed written language of pre-Columbian America, and the most advanced Mathematicians and Astronomers. They were mostly characterized for being extraordinary good astronomers who were experts on making observations and recording the motion of the Sun, the Moon, and the stars. Maya’s primary interests were Zenial Passages, when the Sun crossed over Maya latitudes. They were based on an annual basis where the sun travels to its summer solstice at latitude of 23-1/3 degrees north. Since most of the Maya cities were located south, they were able to observe the sun directly overhead while the sun was passing over their latitude.
Robert graves, the distinguished poet, novelist, and historian, was born in England, went to Oxford University, served as a captain in World War I, and was a professor of poetry at Oxford. In 1960, He wrote Greek God’s and Heroes, 27 classical myths about Olympians and Greeks. This book provides an equally fascinating and entertaining experience. In Greek mythology, Alcestis was one of the daughters of Pelias. She was the most beautiful of King Pelias’s daughters (Graves 112).
She was connected to the death and rebirth of human beings and nature. Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, the deformed god of fire. Hephaestus was offered Aphrodite’s hand in marriage by Zeus and Hera because they felt awful for disowning him, and they didn’t want Aphrodite to get into any more trouble. Aphrodite only agreed to the marriage, so she could remain a goddess. Hephaestus made Aphrodite a golden girdle, which was a magical belt that would make anyone who wore it irresistible.
In Olympus, they call the messenger, Hermes. A couple years later, the Romans called him Mercury. Hermes was the swiftest. When the planets were given names relating to the gods, during the ancient times of Greek astronomy, the fastest planet was named for the winged one and that was Hermes. Hermes is the son of Zeus and Mai.
My name is Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage and child birth and patron of women and this is my story. I am the jealous type and I take out my anger on the lovers and offspring of Zeus and also the other women and children of Earth. I am very vindictive and conniving. My symbols that represent me are the Milky Way, Peacock, cow, crabs and other creatures with shells. There are also plants, perfumes, gems and colors that represent me too, some of them are; Lily, Poppy, Rose, Jasmine, Diamonds, Pearls, Royal Blue and Silver.
The Mayan Haab Calendar. Done by Selma Chavaria The Mayan Haab Calendar The Maya were among the most innovative astronomers of their time. They used monuments, buildings and wooden implements to observe celestial bodies. Evidence confirmed that they have found ways to capture the passage of the sun, moon, and Venus. They observed and predicted lunar eclipses and created the length of a tropical year as 365.2420 days.
The name Olympus, in fact, was given to 2 musicians, one mythical who lived before the Trojan War, and the other, real that lived in the 700’s BC. Real, and mythical Olympus connected by “auletic” music originated in Phrygia. The real Olympus was a musician from ancient Greece. Olympus’s musicality lied in his family tree dating back to more than 4 generations before him. The honor of being the “father of music” was assigned to him by Plutarch, the Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD.)
The Acropolis of Athens One of the greatest archaeological finds in the world is located in Athens, Greece on a flat rock that rises 150 metres above sea level. The Acropolis of Athens, built at the end of the 5th century B.C, is an ancient citadel with its name literally meaning ‘edge’ and ‘city’ of Athens. There were many great acropoleis in Greece but the Acropolis of Athens is by far the most well known. It contains remains of very famous ancient buildings such as the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena Nike. The Acropolis is also known as Cecropia after the first Athenian king, Cecrops, the legendary serpent-man.