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    Myrtle Wreaths

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    It is essential to draw upon other similar gold wreaths found around the Mediterranean to better understand the gold wreath at the Getty Villa. Bettina Tsigarida’s “A New Gold Myrtle Wreath From Central Macedonia in the Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki” published in The Annual of the British School at Athens, discusses a gold myrtle wreath, which was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1993, and sent back to Greece in 2007. This gold myrtle wreath currently resides in the…

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    Zoroastria Research Paper

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    That field of ours, and this my body, and my daddy’s head – make them all grow hair” after describing a girl, Apala, who attributed magical properties to the Soma because of its psychoactive affects. “There is now substantial evidence that the Eleusinian Mystery rites, performed annually near Athens for almost two thousand years, featured a mystical revelation brought on by drinking of an entheogenic brew” (Wasson et al. 1978). Archeologist John Marco Allegro, scholar of the dead sea scrolls,…

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    For the Greek people, most of their lives centered around honor. In the text from both Homer and Hesiod, the importance of honor is subtle and effectively shown. To the Greek people, the idea of having honor in social, economic, and political mean that they could pass on to future generations meant everything. Social honor among men, women, and with the gods could all be different things in terms of what actions needed to be taken to be considered honorees, however, being honorable was still…

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