The Hittites were a Bronze Age Indo-European speaking people of Anatolia. They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c. the 14th century BC, encompassing a large part of Anatolia, north-western Syria about as far south as the mouth of the Litani River (in present-day Lebanon), and eastward into upper Mesopotamia. The Hittite military made successful use of chariots. By the mid-14th century BC (under king Suppiluliuma I), they had carved out an empire that included most of Asia Minor as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. After c. 1180 BC, the empire disintegrated into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some surviving until the 8th century BC.
Their Hittite language was a member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. Natively, they referred to their land as Hatti, and to their language as Nesili (the language of Nesa). The conventional name "Hittites" is due to their initial identification with the Biblical Hittites in 19th century archaeology. Despite the use of "Hatti", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes Odysseus's journey home. Other parts of the war are contained in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.
The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.
Ramesses II (c. 1303 BC – July or August 1213 BC; Egyptian: *Riʻmīsisu, alternatively transcribed as Rameses /ˈræməsiːz/ and Ramses /ˈræmsiːz/ or /ˈræmziːz/), referred to as Ramesses the Great, was the third Egyptian pharaoh (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC) of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor." Ramesses II led several military expeditions into the Levant, re-asserting Egyptian control over Canaan. He also led expeditions to the south, into Nubia, commemorated in inscriptions at Beit el-Wali and Gerf Hussein.
At age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I. He is believed to have taken the throne in his late teens and is known to have ruled Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC for 66 years and 2 months, according to both Manetho and Egypt's contemporary historical records. He was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his 90th or 91st year. If he became Pharaoh in 1279 BC as most Egyptologists today believe, he would have assumed the throne on May 31, 1279 BC, based on his known accession date of III Shemu day 27. Ramesses II celebrated an unprecedented 14 sed festivals (the first held after thirty years of a pharaoh's reign, and then every three years) during his reign—more than any other pharaoh. On his death, he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to a royal cache where it was discovered in 1881, and is now on display in the Cairo Museum.
I never put much thought into the future
I lived day to day but honey that changed
And you should know by now
It's all because of you when I say
That I'm growing up to be a better person
Still exposed to a life I know and love
All I need are the people here around
And to see your face when the sun comes up
There's something Pulling Me Down I can't control
And it's calling me home
And something's Pulling Me Down, it won't let go
Can you feel it now?
On and on, I carry on in hope that I can find someone
Or something waiting for me beside the sea
Here in California
I've got a lot to say, but not enough time
To get it all out, you always had me tongue-tied
I wanna get it right so you can get insight
And understand exactly what is I realized
Never had a lot in life but it never bothered me
No no, it never bothered me
Cause I knew that you were out there somewhere
Patiently, still far away from
I'm a runner when it comes to being alone
I lost the race because you shoot 'em alive
I'm the same one that you taught
To keep my head in the light
I feel the slipping' and you're there to remind me again
I know, you're better off at saving the world
But they don't know you're so damn persistent
I'm falling out of love
Like the foam isn't foaming at your mouth
It's not the way I could tell
I crossed the line and I know what I said
Your call to arms will be the last time you're feeling alive
Running blind cause I can't see you being alone
I see the break and you still wait for the bend
You're the same one that I fought
To keep my head out of light
I feel the brightness and you're there to remind me again
I remember you singing it that loud
You didn't need to remind bout where to go
They're always seeking a brand new sound
And we'll be selling out this
Time to go
I can't believe you would think
That the trust I could support everything
Under the weight of the timeline
Through everything you said
You'll be packing up and I'll be alone once again
Translating this and you never seemed so impossible
Just tried to see this through
It's not Impossible
I'm falling out of love
Like the foam isn't foaming at your mouth
It's not the way I could tell
I crossed the line and I know what I said
It seems that you've been M.I.A. for days
Maybe got carried away, yeah?
With all of these distractions taking shape
You're well on the way of perfecting how to flake
Second guessing every decision
Instead of recognizing when you made the right one
Now you follow and trust a bottle
Cause with if you say you're never you're never alone
And so it goes
Another night best spent alone
Only trouble knows
Exactly what I do and don't
Want to hear on this drive home
It's not as easy as I make it seem
To turn away from the things you hide
You're not as clever as you might think
And not too bright
You fell in love with the game but now the scores tied
You've got your secrets and subtle winks
You pulled a fast one on me or so you think
When everything comes down around you
I'll be glad and better off and so it goes
Looking back at every single second, yeah
I can't help but wonder if I wasted
All of this time on someone
Who never even gave a damn
Wish I could stop and rewind
Start over and turn back the time
But I'd probably just be destined
To make the same mistakes again
I want you to know
I want you to know
That I'm moving in a different direction
One that you are simply incapable of
Don't worry cause I promise I'm doing fine
You're bumming the kids out
With your screaming take it outside
Recycling rope from all the noose's I've tied
I've emptied my stomach but I still feel sick
And I swear I didn't drink
I'm driving with the windows down taking photos of accidents while I speed…
This is who I am
Burning the ants with a magnifying glass
Just pretending to jolt in the bed you laid
While I'm waiting in line and I'm pretending to care
To catch a small glimpse of the mess you've made
I'll be thrown from the boat with a bet to let go
Sleeping alone with the cards you've played
I'll be signing a line with a pain hidden plan
From all the years that I'm surprised you stayed well
Crawl our way out
I'll be searching for the enemy
We'll find our way back
A lesson taught but a memory taken
Lightspeed Down
We hear the sound
Pounding the air of restlessness
Our bodies finally hit the ground
Lightspeed Down
We hear the sound
Slipping across the interstate
And ending up in these boring towns
Burning the ants with a magnifying glass
Just pretending to jolt in the bed you laid
While I'm waiting in line
And I'm pretending to give a shit
About the fucking mess you've made
I'll be thrown from the boat with a bet to let go
Sleeping alone with the cards you've played
I'll be signing a line with a pain hidden plan
From all the years that I'm surprised you stayed well
Crawl our way out
I'll be searching for the enemy
We'll find our way back
A lesson taught but a memory taken
Just a matter of time before my truth runs out
I'll be cutting in line because I want it all
When there's someone like you
It only builds up doubt
The irrepressible urges to pick up and call
I'd be loathing alone
If you could just back down
Never threw in the towel because I want it all
If I knew you were close you know I'd sink this town
Another welcome conversation
To save me from myself
I think too much, I know
And I don't share in their addictions
But I'm an addict
For the melodrama
So judgmental of my center
When I'm left alone
Alone and bored
So judgmental
Hey you should know me by now
(Way better than that so much better than that)
I think I feel it again
(Beating inside my chest)
Let's raise a glass in celebration
Of another welcome conversation
To save me from myself
I talk too much, I know
Or so I'm told
And I don't share in their afflictions
But I'm afflicted by the paranoia
This face beneath the mask you've come to know as me
Is crumbling from all the weight
So lets raise a glass and make a toast to this deceit
You gotta wake yourself up
And see the life that you lead
Before you go down in flames
Think about the things you say
Every single one of your best traits
Are fraying at the seems
As you continually fall apart
Should searching
This conversations over
Go find another lover
Don't think you've got me figured out
You don't know a thing about me anyway
I'll take my chances on my own without you
Cause every little halo
Can't save you now
You brought this on yourself
So just leave me on the shelf alone
Cause I don't wanna be the toy
You come to when you bored
With everybody else
And now you'll know how to fall
Stop reaching
When this embrace is over
We'll never have another
You know a thing about me anyway