The classical civilizations always associated it with milk – hence its name the Via Lactaea.
At the University of Michigan, a professor in a classical civilizations class connected what happened in New York to the anger of Achilles in "The Iliad".
While in college, Emily had studied classical civilizations, and the time she spends with Olive raises a complicated question: should she leave her unhappy marriage to work as Olive's assistant?
Benchmark: Understands the concept and importance of "classical civilizations" World History Standard 17- Understands the rise of centers of civilization in Mesoamerica and Andean South America in the 1st millennium CE.
In classical civilizations, when beloved heroes died, they were often said to be delivered over to the gods in a divine apotheosis--an act of exaltation that made the heroes themselves godlike in stature.
Three decades ago, Sally Ride (and to their credit, the NASA officials who recruited and mentored her) overturned the mainstream myth inherited from classical civilizations by becoming the first American woman astronaut to enter into orbit around the earth.
