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Hera

Hera played a prominent role in the myth about the Trojan War, captured in The Illiad. The story began with a beauty contest between Athena, Aphrodite and Hera.http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history.html Hera promised Paris power if he chose her, but Paris selected Aphrodite as the most beautiful, for she had promised him Helen as his wife for selecting her. His kidnapping of Helen caused the Trojan War, and Hera sided with the Greeks since Paris was a Trojan and had not chosen her in the contest.http://cerhas.uc.edu/troy/bios.html#

Hera is associated with the peacock. This is in part because, according to myth, she put the spots on the peacock's tail feathers. Hera had sent her guard Argus to watch over a cow that she knew was really Io, a woman Zeus was having an affair with. Zeus had changed Io into a cow so that he might conceal their affair when Hera caught them together. Hera took Io as a cow for a gift and Io would have remained that way with Argus with his hundred eyes watching over her, but Zeus sent Hermes to free Io. Hermes told stories and sang songs to Argus to make him fall asleep, then killed him. Hera was infuriated, and took Argus' eyes and placed them on the peacock in his memory.http://www.math.utk.edu/~vasili/va/GREECE/Greek_myth/zeusLover.html

updated 2010-11-24 22:44:32

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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

• 236 B.C.: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus born http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 216-218 B.C.: Saved his father's life at the beginning of The Second Punic War http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 211 B.C.: Elected Consul of Iberia http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 209 B.C.: Defeated Hasrubal Barca http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 202 B.C.: Defeated Haniibal Barca http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 189 B.C.: Defeated the King of Magnesia http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 185 B.C.: Entered Voluntary exile http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php
• 184 B.C.: Died in exile http://www.hannibalofcarthage.org/scipio.php

updated 2010-11-05 03:10:33

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Demeter

The most common myth that Demeter plays a part in is the kidnapping of her daughter Persephone by Hades and the resulting creation of the seasons. Hades wanted to marry Persephone and so abducted her by springing forth from an opening in the ground on his chariot and carrying her into the underworld. She did not want to stay, but Hades tricked her into eating a seed from a pomegranate. Anyone who ate food in the underworld had to remain there, and so Persephone could not leave. Demeter was saddened by this, and in mourning refused to allow the crops to grow. The resulting famine threatened to starve all of humanity. In order to stop the famine, a compromise was negotiated that resulted in Persephone spending half of the year with Hades in the underworld, and half of the year above ground with her mother. The result was the seasonal cycle, with no crops growing during the winter when Demeter pines for her daughter.http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html

updated 2010-11-24 22:31:44

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Cupid

• 1897 - Cupid and Psyche
• 1897 - Cupid at the Washtub
• 1907 - Cupid
• 1908 - Cupid's Pranks
• 1909 - An Absent Minded Cupid
• 1910 - A Midnight Cupid
• 1911 - A Country Cupid
• 1911 - A Busy Cupid
• 1912 - Cupid vs. Cigarettes
• 1912 - Cupid Got Away
• 1912 - A Near-Sighted Cupid
• 1912 - A Stubborn Cupid
• 1913 - A Pill Box Cupid
• 1913 - A Shot Gun Cupid
• 1913 - A Vagabond Cupid
• 1913 - Binks Plays Cupid
• 1913 - A College Cupid
• 1913 - A Four-Footed Cupid
• 1914 - Andy Plays Cupid
• 1914 - Cupid Dances a Tango
• 1915 - A Cunning Canal Boat Cupid
• 1915 - Santa Claus vs. Cupid
• 1916 - Tweedledum Torpedoed by Cupid
• 1917 - Red Saunders Plays Cupid
• 1918 - Cupid Angling
• 1918 - Cupid Camouflaged
• 1920 - Torchy Turns Cupid
• 1922 - Cupid in Djekjakarta
• 1924 - K.O. for Cupid
• 1925 - A Friend of Cupid
• 1925 - Alice Plays Cupid
• 1925 - Felix Outwits Cupid
• 1926 - Cupid a la Carte
• 1927 - Cupid and the Clock
• 1929 - Cupid in Clover
• 1933 - Cupid in the Rough
• 1936 - Cupid Gets His Man
• 1936 - Thanks Mr Cupid
• 1938 - Cupid Takes a Holiday
• 1939 - Cupid Rides the Range
• 1940 - Blondie Plays Cupid
• 1941 - Two Gun Cupid
• 1944 - The Stupid Cupid
• 1944 - Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
• 1947 - Cupid Goes Nuts
• 1949 - Bal Cupidon
• 1960 - Operation Cupid
• 1962 - The Story of Cupid
• 1964 - The Electric Cupid
• 1975 - The Taking of Cupid
• 1977 - Tora San Plays Cupid
• 1979 - Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
• 1985 - Cupid One
• 1987 - Sister Cupid
• 1988 - Stupid Cupid
• 1991 - Coping with Cupid
• 1994 - The Blob Cupid
• 1996 - Cupid and Psycho
• 1999 - Cupid Confidential ...

updated 2010-07-17 02:30:56

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How to Learn About Ancient Rome

Below you'll find some recommended texts about Rome that you can buy online, and some may even be available to view or preview via Google Books.http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp

First, one of the standard recommendations is Edward Gibbon's The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. This book is, to be sure, a mammoth of a read, but one of the most comprehensive works on Roman history to be undertaken in modern times.

The author Anthony Everitt has written two excellent biographies, one on Cicero entitled (simply) Cicero and one on Octavian/Augustus Caesar called Augustus. These books will shed light on the lives and careers of two of the most important players in Roman history. Robin Seager's Pompey is also a fine biography on Pompey the Great, and Anthony Birley's series of biographies are written for a wide audience - his biography of Marcus Aurelius fills a sorely-needed gap in the literature for this famous emperor.

Tom Holland's book Rubicon is an excellent overall view of the Roman Republic, especially focusing on the last few years of that form of government and its eventual decline into the Empire. In a similar vein, Lily Ross Taylor wrote an old standard called Party Politics in the Age of Caesar that will help illuminate (perhaps a bit more technically) the people and events explored by Holland in Rubicon.

updated 2010-07-17 09:01:21

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Cerberus

In the third-person fighting game Dante's Inferno, released by Electronic Arts (EA Games) in 2010, Dante faces the "great worm" Cerberus. Cerberus is depicted as a three headed worm with two arms, ferocious teeth and bulging eyes. This is the final battle at the end of the 2nd circle of Hell. Dante must defeat Cerberus by decapitating all three heads in order to enter the 3rd circle, Gluttony.http://www.bukisa.com/.../239738_dantes-inferno-boss-walkthrough-guide-05-cerberus-of-gluttony

updated 2010-11-30 18:02:52

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Hannibal Barca

• 247 B.C.: Hannibal Barca bornhttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 221 B.C.: Hannibal becomes commander of the Carthigian armyhttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 218 B.C.: Start of the Second Punic Warhttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 218 B.C.: Battle at Trebiahttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273
• 217 B.C.: Battle of Lake Trasimene http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 216 B.C.: Battle of Cannaehttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 202 B.C.: Battle of Zamahttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 195 B.C.: Hannibal forced into exilehttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

• 182 B.C.: Hannibal commits suicidehttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=273

updated 2010-11-04 22:43:07

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Apollo

Apollo is the owner of a herd of pure white cows, and in one myth his half-brother Hermes decides to play a trick on him with them.http://www.floresville.isd.tenet.edu/Elementary/fes/special/gtkidpages/greekmyths/hermes.htm Hermes ties brooms to their tails and herds them backwards away from their pasture, hiding them in a cave. Since he walked them backwards and the brooms on their tails cleared the ground of their hoof prints as they walked, there was no trail leading to them. Apollo is furious when he cannot find his cows and searches for them and their thief.http://hccl.byu.edu/faculty/HuntsmanE/ClCv241eh/Unit%201/11-Hermes.pdf He eventually finds them in the cave. Hermes has sacrificed two of the cows and used some of their intestines to fashion the lyre, which he ends up giving to Apollo as a means of making amends with him for the joke.http://hccl.byu.edu/faculty/HuntsmanE/ClCv241eh/Unit%201/11-Hermes.pdf

updated 2010-12-03 18:21:53

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of Rome's most famous orators. We have surviving works of his orations, philosophies, and several letters. A contemporary of Julius Caesar, several of his most famous speeches are known as the Cataline Orations, in which Cicero masterfully uses the intricacies of the Latin language and the power of words to vilify his political enemy, Lucius Sergius Catillina.

updated 2010-07-17 01:38:41

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