Rape of the Nile (Parts 1 & 2)
1. Fagan spends a whole chapter describing and explaining the actions of the first tourists. Before the tourists there was an overabundance of grave robbers. "They [Robbers] even emptied the tombs of the great Eighteenth Dynasty pharaohs." They would take the valuables in the tombs and the people of power wouldn't put a stop to it, eventually in they started to catch the robbers. After the robbers had taken a sizable number of artifacts tourists, archeologists, and anthropologists came to excavate the tomb sites. Herodotus was a Greek historian, known as "the father of history" and a "great genius" during the time of his discoveries. Herodotus described the land and also became familiar with the surroundings and people that his "account was a vivid one, perhaps too vivid" states Fagan. Herodotus
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni was born in Padua, Italy, and was one of four children. Belzoni met Captain Gibraltar, who had introduced Belzoni to a new design of a waterwheel that would revolutionize the Egyptian economy. They shortly visited Cairo to build a prototype. The prototype failed to do its job, and Belzoni started to explore Egypt in his own time. Belzoni seemed to be a greedy and ruthless explorer but had a passion for what he was excavating. Fagan states, "Belzoni was a godsend to a diplomat thinking of his antiquities-greedy superiors in London." He wanted to uncover artifacts before others, it seems as though he was competitive to always be one step ahead of the others. Fagan states," Belzoni had achieved more in a short amount of time than any of his rivals." This shows that Belzoni wanted to accomplish more than his opponents and he did it successfully. "They [Drovetti's agents] realized that the hard-driving Italian would return for more digging." Even though Belzoni nearly ran out of funds countless times he was never discouraged to stop his digging. He was also wanted to be known by his findings, Fagan
Christopher Columbus was born in 1452 in Genoa, which today is a part of Italy. Columbus was born into a family of weavers and later became
This paper will offer a commentary on Herodotus’ Histories 2.129-135. Book Two of Histories concerns itself with Egypt; specifically chapters 99-182 detail rulers of Egypt both legendary and actual. Book Two is distinct from the other books in Histories as it is in this book that we predominantly experience Herodotus as an investigator. More precisely it is in Book Two that Herodotus treats first person experience not as direct evidence but as a method of assessing the accounts of others. Chapters 129-135 provide us with the tale of King Mycerinus as recounted by whom Herodotus refers to in 2.127 as simply ‘ÆGYPTIOI’. These Egyptians are referred to at various points in Book Two and at times appear to refer to what might be termed ‘Egyptians in general’ . However, we can make a reasonable assumption in this instance, given what has been stated before at 2.99 and what is stated later at 2.142, that the Egyptians that provide Herodotus with the tale of King Mycerinus are probably priests. It should not be assumed that priests are any more reliable than the lay Egyptian in Histories however; the Egyptian priesthood did not necessarily concern itself with historical accuracy. Indeed the inclusion of priests may simply be a Herodotean literary device designed to reinforce his reader’s credulity.
Herodotus was an interesting historian. His way of displaying a historical event such as the Persian War is different from how I expect a modern day historian to write it. He does not try to focus only on the Persian war but he goes into detail some times of the lineage of the rulers of the city-states even though that serves little relevance to the actual war. The accounts of history I am used to reading are more focused on the bigger issue and the historians do not deviate on long trains of side thoughts such as Herodotus does. Herodotus style of writing had me confused because he often would start on one topic and in the next couple of sentences move on to another topic before coming back to his main point about a paragraph down. I had to
Herodotus and Livy are arguably the earliest true historians in that they recorded occurrences with the goal accurately remembering them for educational purposes, rather than of entertaining the people. Although they do appear to attempt to provide an accurate account of the events of the time, there are some sections of the book where a clear bias is portrayed. Even though both Herodotus and Livy impart some of their personal opinion into their histories, they do so in different ways which ultimately leads to a divergence in their styles of writing.
Herodotus is a Greek historian who travelled to Egypt and wrote down his observations about the Egyptians in his second volume of his histories. He is also well known as the “father of history”, although his observations were not always accurate. Through his experience in Egypt, he developed many different views of what he thought the Egyptians were, and why they were worth describing. Herodotus made observations on the Egyptian’s because their habits and customs were reversed from other countries.
Herodotus was a true historian. He observed and documented as many cultures, and traditions that he could throughout his life. He also gathered information about science and religion, especially the Egyptians and the Persian Empire; although he described them as peculiar he also credited them as a prideful civilization that refuse...
Life can sometime bring unwanted events that individuals might not be willing to face it. This was the conflict of O’Brien in the story, “On The Rainy River”. As the author and the character O’Brien describes his experiences about the draft to the Vietnam War. He face the conflict of whether he must or must not go to the war, in this moment O’Brien thinking that he is so good for war, and that he should not be lost in that way. He also show that he disagree with the consbet of the war, how killing people will benefit the country. In addition O’Brien was terrifying of the idea of leaving his family, friends, and everything that he has done in the past years.
Herodotus and Sima Qian were undoubtedly great historians due to their substantial advancements in history writing. Thomas R. Martin concludes that the link between Herodotus and Sima Qian is their common goal to create history as a guide to the past, and that the history they create is left up to individual interpretation. Although the time period, backgrounds, and situations between the two historians were vastly different, comparing both of their work is an opportunity to view the writing of history across cultures and around the world. Their ability to write intricate and lengthy histories during the time in which they lived and under the circumstances they faced make them great historians. The way they composed their material and shared it with the world should be recognized and accounted for.
Cesare Beccaria was born on March 15, 1738 in Milan Italy. Early in his life he attended the Catholic congregation school of Jesuit in Parma, a city in northern Italy. Later
He spent his time collecting stories from those he met on his travels and then wrote his own opinions both on the Persians and Egyptians way of living. I thought Herodotus seemed to focus first on the Persians
Herodotus, known as ´the first historian´ or ´the father of history´, was a Greek historian who wrote the nine-volume ´ Histories´ circa 440 BC on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars 490 BC and 480-479 BC. The Greek believed that historia requires much research. Herodotus states that he records history “so that the actions of people will not fade with time”3.
The two Greeks writing primarily about Greece, Herodotus and Thucydides, were predominantly writers that concerned themselves mostly with wars and the data surrounding Greek and the combatant’s life during the time of war. Herodotus is considered the father of history, while Thucydides is in turn considered to have modified his method of writing to more exacting standards of accuracy. Herodotus, from Halicarnussus (a city in now-modern Turkey, then a city in the Greek province of Caria), wrote about the origins and customs of people, towns, regions, constitutions, politics of Egypt, Arabia and India, Scythia, Libya, and Thrace (Breisach 2007). His writing style is best described as a self-styled historian, convinced of his self-importance and knowledge, sure to insert his personal viewpoint wherever he deemed it necessary so as to impar...
The Nile River is arguably one of the most important water sources in the world and has an extremely rich history dating back thousands of years. Without the Nile, the ancient Egyptian civilization would have never existed. Egypt is basically a whole lot of sand and not much else, except they have the Nile River flowing through it, on it’s way to the Mediterranean sea. The ancient Egyptians lived along the Nile River and it provided them with abundant water, food (fish) and the opportunity to develop agriculture along it’s banks. The Nile River was also used for transportation and trade with other regions because land travel was more difficult than floating on the river. The Ancient Egyptians were at the mercy of the seasonal flooding and droughts but learned to work within the natural system of the River and weather cycles (Carnegie Museum of Natural History). Modern people, however were more interested in conquering nature, rather than living in harmony with it.
In the novel Woman at Point Zero the author, Nawal El Saadawi, retells the life story of Firdaus, the main character, a tragic hero who rebels against the social norms within her oppressive culture seeking the same respect and prestige that is bestowed upon her male oppressors, only to be executed for her attempt to obtain the same privileges as men. This essay will demonstrate how the aspects and expectations of Egyptian culture influence Firdaus’s decisions as she struggles to be her own woman in a society controlled by dictatorial political and patriarchal structures all while exposing the evident discontentment she has with the way Egyptian society views women, and the glorification of things that go against ideal societal structures.
History is shaped by the historian’s perspective on different events and oftentimes is written to relay various messages to those in which the reading aims at reaching. Herodotus is a prime example of a historian passing on important events in Greece’s history with the purpose of spreading the concept of the good values the people of Greece should be conducting themselves with. Herodotus was referred to by many historians as the “father of history” and often wrote his records based off of the stories that he heard in his travels. Because Herodotus was known to ramble in his wri...