The Striding Apis Bull The Apis Bull originated in Memphis, cult of Serapis during the reign of Ptolemy I. Serapis was the god whose association with Osiris, the god of the dead, formed the name Asar-Hapi. Asar is the Egyptian name of Osiris and Hapi was the name given to the Apis Bull which was the object of worship at Memphis. The Greeks combined the two together to form Zaparrus. Even though it is not quite clear, it is certain that Serapis is the shape Apis took after death. “Apis is called
Alexandria, a booming city of Greek culture, was a city built on the philosophies of Aristotle. Ancient Greece was actually a democratic society. But with the rise of Christianity, living and believing however you wanted was a freedom that would soon be challenged on every level, politically and personally in Alexandria. The rising spread of Christianity during this part of history threatened the power structure of the leaders of the time. In the film Agora, the story of Hypatia brings to life the
Christianity really became a major religion in Rome in the 4th century. Roman history would not have gone the way it did if Christianity hadn’t had become the major religion. Constantine I used Christianity to help him gain control of Rome, and he also tried to unite the Trinitarians and the Arians. However, he was unable to stop the violence of caused by the spread of Christianity and allowed by Theodosius I once he became emperor. Constantine the Christian Constantine claimed to see a vision before
This film was created based on a 2000-year-old letter written to the Pharaoh in 164 BC. It tells the story of two twin girls, Tages and Taous from the ancient Egyptian capitol city of Memphis, who were wrongfully detached from a wealthy family and left to fend for themselves on the streets. A short chain of events led the two girls to find themselves serving as priestesses of the Apis Bull in Sakkara, a temple town located just outside the capitol. It was there, in Sakkara, that the twins wrote the
Agriculture and Food Production in the Old Kingdom Egypt Agriculture and food production are quite literally the skills that feed a civilization. Old Kingdom Egypt excelled in this area. Egypt’s high success in agriculture was due to many things, ranging from a near constant climate, to the Nile and its annual inundations causing the land to be inexhaustible, to Egypt’s vast amount of other natural resources. This paper will only give a general overview of the more popular resources yielded by