From the very early stages of its development, art performed different functions: narrative, entertaining, and political, to name but a few. The study of the art of the Ancient World offers some valuable insights into another function of art that is the function of communicating power. This can be particularly...

All societies possess power, and their gods claim power in different forms. This causes groups of people from the ancient cultures of the Near East to modern nation states to express their understanding of power in art work. Two works of art reveal a perspective on power in the ancient...

Despite their many accomplishments, including the development of a numerical system which included the number zero (0), an advanced calendar system, and a remarkable written language, the Maya evidently experienced some sort of decline in the 10th century. Ethnically speaking the Maya still exist – their descents can still be...

The theme that is going to be discussed in this paper is that of gender roles. According to Glover & Kaplan (2008), the authors of the book “Genders”, gender today is “one of the busiest, most restless terms in the English language, a word that crops up everywhere, yet whose...

Although the cultures of the ancient Near East provided the world with civilization, the Greeks instituted structure and definitions that place them as the founders of Western Civilization. The Greeks innovation and thought processes went in a multitude of directions. Nearly all the foundations of our modern arts, sciences and...