World History Picture Page |
 Fall 2006 - Mr. Duez proudly wears the jersey of Tony S. (our Eagle Kicker). |
 Here I'll post a few pictures from some of the subjects we are studying throughout the year. Please stop by often to get an idea of some of the content that our students are studying.
On the right is a picture of my old classroom in Room 203 at Humble High. The room is set to be turned to rubble this summer. I am looking forward to adding more pictures from my new Room 2307! |
 "To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we've have come from." (Richard Leakey, in National Geographic, February 1998) |
 | The Glory that was Rome
Marcus Arelieus That which does no harm to the state, does no harm to the citizen. In the case of every appearance of harm apply this rule: if the state is not harmed by this, neither am I harmed. But if the state is harmed, thou must not be angry with him who does harm to the state. Show him where his error is. |
 | "The Parthenon...enjoys the reputation of being the most perfect Doric temple ever built. Even in antiquity, its architectural refinements were legendary, especially the subtle correspondence between the curvature of the stylobate, the batter, or taper, of the naos walls and the entasis of the columns."
— John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. p63. "The temple stands on the conventional three steps, below which the foundation platform originally created for its predecessor remained visible on the west, south and east sides of the building...The cella consisted of two rooms end to end with hexastyle prostyle porches...Inside the colonnades, towards the end, there stood the gold and ivory statue of Athena Parthenos, the work of Phidias, representing Athena fully armed with spear, helmet, aegis and, accompanied by a snake, and holding in her extended right arm a statue of victory. The ceiling was of wood, with painted and gilded decoration. Light was admitted, as normally in Greek temples, only through the doorway when the great doors were opened." — Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p112. |
