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...SCHOOL GOD OF WAR II PlayStation 2 Sure, Xerxes thought he was a god. You really are one in this game, the war god of the ancient Spartans, ripping your way through a roster of mighty mythological foes, including the Colossus of Rhodes and, yes, even Zeus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheat Sheet | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...well? Perish the thought. Let General Education courses in the 21st century, especially the ones under the rubric “historical and global perspectives,” be pure, informing us above all that we, and our societies, have sprung forth like Athena from the head of Zeus: fully formed, fully armed, with no past to remember, forget, or learn from. History is only as deep as the 19th century. Historical Study B-11, unfortunately, is the only course mentioned in the appropriate segment of the Report that deals with the pre-modern period. ANGELIKI E. LAIOU Cambridge, Mass...

Author: By Angeliki E. Laiou, | Title: Future of Gen Ed Should Include Pre-Modern History | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

Along the way they join forces with a flock of talking birds and build a “perfect” city in the clouds. Pisthetairos and Euelpides’ heavenly abode ultimately devolves into a dictatorship, and Pisthetairos commandeers sufficient power to depose Zeus as king of the gods...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "The Birds" | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...some of her late work. Yet even when she was turning out retrograde sculptural commissions for the Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus and the Gorgon, in which the son of Zeus holds high the severed head of Medusa while her winged body collapses in a long arc around his feet, may not be the work of an avant-gardist, but that dynamic torquing line, the complexity of volume and void, are the work of a woman who could bring virtuosity even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Under The Influence | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...Once a symbol of division, Lincoln came to be seen as a symbol of national peacemaking, admired alike by New York bankers and the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated, its structure modeled after the temples of ancient Greece, its statue reminiscent of Zeus on his throne, its location chosen to maximize the power of impression by an object of reverence and honor. In Illinois, sites associated with the 16th President were marked as "Lincoln shrines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The True Lincoln | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

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