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Aristotle sees the oikos, or household or family as the primary component of the state (polis). He believes that the family is the first place where moral conduct, government and economy are acquired, hence it is the building block of the society.
Discipline: Philosophy -
Pliny in his letters to Tacitus has provided a historical and most personal account of the eruption and its effects, the dread of it and the shattering loss of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. The narration captures the family efforts to save each other, in the case of an unexpected calamity.
Discipline: History -
These were early Christian burial sites used by Christian families who lived in the ancient times. The space of the catacombs and the painting in the catacombs accentuate heritage, recollection, and further extension of blood and family relationships and identity despite death.
Discipline: Architecture -
This fresco is famous on the account of its description of raw human emotion. Mary with the dead Christ is a greatly compelling illustration of the motherly mourn and love with no conditions, as the scene of loss within the family is raised to a global one.
Discipline: Art History -
A French tragedy was a play focused on the devastating love in a royal stepfamily. The play examines how family secrets, inheritable curses and forbidden desires in a family lineage result in disastrous conflict and breakdown.
Discipline: Theater -
This official portrait that was commissioned to enhance the royal image of the Queen, deliberately represents Marie Antoinette as a caring mother. It employs the close approach of the family unit to strengthen the political and dynastic identity of the monarchy.
Discipline: Art History -
The initial working photographic procedure instantly changed the family memory maintenance. It also enabled common citizens to possess permanent, correct visual images of their family members, which became the modern-day family portrait.
Discipline: Photography -
The Cratchit Family which is surviving in poverty with pride and affection symbolizes the emotional stability and financial prosperity of solid family ties. Their warmth brings out the spiritual impoverishment of the lonely existence of Scrooge.
Discipline: Literature -
Mahler frequently had recourse to the rich reservoir of personal and family past, which was full of loss and complication. The emotional scale of the Symphony is the reflection of the transformation of the simple childhood memories into the deep melancholy of the adult experience and grief.
Discipline: Music -
This iconic picture is a record of the ravaging impacts of city poverty on the family set up in the New York tenements. It is a strong historical remarkary about the effect of architecture and economic poverty to the security and privateness of domestic life.
Discipline: Photography -
The story of the decline of the Compson family in the American South as a tragic, multi-generational downfall is a modernist novel that discusses how the burden of a family, an inherited sense of morality, and the failures of parents devastates the lives of children.
Discipline: Literature -
The movie is an ode to the community and the unmeasurable and deep value of the family. The story of George Bailey shows that love and loyalty of his wife, children and family are the greatest treasures.
Discipline: Film History -
The success of the boycott was one of the important moments of the Civil Rights Movement because it was impossible without the efforts of African American churches and families who sacrificed much in their everyday life to sustain the movement.
Discipline: History -
This is a song in the album Tapestry that is used to express the human need of a place to belong and to be accepted on a deeply emotional level. The symbol home is used to refer to the family stability and safety that is offered by a loving family.
Discipline: Music -
The movie is an examination of the selected family. Elliot, who has to struggle with the separation of his parents, finds all the unconditional love and security in connecting to E.T and he realizes that family is not only determined by blood but by the emotional bond and dedication as well.
Discipline: Film History