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Century B C Role Reversal
1,185 wordsAristophanes was a "craft" comedy poet in the fourth century B. C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes' usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his "new-fangled ideas" which were most likely designed to destroy the cohesiveness of society and lead to The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes' comedies are those in which the main characters, the heroes of the story, are women. Smart One of the most f...
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1,326 words... our the Athenians did not stress physical prowess as much as the Spartans, they did not disregard it all together. Young children were trained at the palestrae, gyms for children, by paidotribes, in activities such as running, jumping, wrestling, and swimming. Plato believed that children are trained physically so that they may not be compelled through bodily weakness to play the coward in war or on any other occasion (Protagoras 326. C). However, it seems that the training the children rece...
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613 wordsI found Plutarch to be a very interesting philosopher. But on the other hand I find his readings very difficult to read and understand. I often get lost in these readings and cannot pin point what Plutarch is trying to explain. In Plutarch's stories about these Greek hero's he explains what they do and why he likes them. He tells of certain values he praises them for and what things he sees as bad. But he confuses me while doing this. These "characters" who were real at a time seem to have done ...
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1,805 wordsChinas ideology is greatly due to Confucius. His views and teachings started the Chinese ideology in China and he is the first self-conscious philosopher in the Chinese tradition (Mote, 1989, p 31). Confucius lived from 552 B. C. To 479 B. C. ; his teachings greatly influenced Chinese life. Living a moral life was the predominant belief and goal of the philosopher and teacher, K'ung Ch " iu, the founder of Ju school (Liu, 1995, p 10). Confucius was born into minor aristocracy and was of noble st...
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Women In Ancient Greece Athens And Sparta
1,329 words... tan women act as mothers, daughters, wives and queens, and they participate in the political and social arenas. A Spartan woman named Gorgo is mentioned several times in Herodotus work as a daughter, wife and queen. Gorgo was the daughter of Cleomenes and wife of Leonidas. She is first mentioned in 5. 48: for Cleomenes reign was a brief one, and he died without a son to succeed him, leaving only a daughter whose name was Gorgo. Often, Herodotus does not name the women, but he does so name Go...
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Women In Ancient Greece
1,485 wordsWomen in Ancient Greece were always very bust people. Whether it was caring for children or taking to their households, they almost never had free time on their hands. How women were treated back then is definitely different from the strong women of todays! Nevertheless, for one thing, we are really lucky that we live today because women in Ancient Greece worked hard labor and tough times on a day-to-day basis ALWAYS! When a baby was born and presented to the father, mostly girls were rejected a...
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Attitude Toward Politics Devotion To Truth Socrates
1,463 wordsI. Socrates The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, He familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the Login philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursu...
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Greek City States Persian Wars
491 wordsBoth Sparta and Athens were Greek city-states. Sparta was a strict military ruled city-state where the people established themselves as a military power early. However Athens was more of a political city-state that was more involved with their economical stature than their military forces. Still changes from the Persian wars would change the powers of the city-state and somewhat unite them. Sparta was a strict military city-state. The people were Dorians who conquered Laconia. This region lies i...
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Social And Economic Read And Write
859 wordsMost ancient Greek women were under control of men from the moment of their birth to the moment of their death, weather it be their father or husbands. This may be quite true about Athenian or any other women from different city-states, but Spartan women had a lot more freedom and when compared are found out to be a lot more different then the traditional image of which ancient Greek women are thought to of been treated. Firstly Spartan women had many more rights then other women of different ci...
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Athenian Democracy City States
613 wordsMountains, valleys, and water isolate Greece. Hundreds of islands are scattered along its coast. As a result of this type of geography, Greece could never become a large unified empire, so instead, small city-states were created. A city-state was known as a "polis." A polis was made up of a two different parts; the lower ground was the main city, which was housed within a large wall. The upper ground was the hilltop acropolis. These acropolis' were used as military posts, and for religious pract...
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Oedipus At Colonus 5 Th Century
1,183 words... cles was born about 496 BC in Colonus Hippius (now part of Athens), the son of Sophillus, reportedly a wealthy armor-maker. Sophocles was provided with the best traditional aristocratic education. As a young man, he was chosen to lead the chorus of youths who celebrated the naval victory at Salamis in 480 BC. In 468 BC, at the age of 28, he defeated Aeschylus, whose preeminence as a tragic poet had long been undisputed, in a dramatic competition. The date of the first contest with Euripides ...
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1,369 words... vil service. Another contribution to the Spartan government that Lycurgus provided was the money system. The Spartans used pieces of iron instead of silver and gold. This type of monetary system was of very little value outside of the Spartan city-state and made the citizens dependent upon the local economy. The warrior culture of Sparta was battle tested time and time again and proved to be the strongest battle ready nation within the Grecian region. The Spartans were called upon during man...
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United States Of America Form Of Democracy
1,786 wordsAndy Carroll July 8 th, 1996 I. Meaning of Democracy II. Summary of Places and Dates III. Features of Democracy IV. Types of Democracy V. Early Democracy A. Athens B. Rome VI. Middle Ages and England VII. The Renaissance A. United States of America B. France VIII. Modern Times IX. Important People Demos Kratia, or democracy, as it is used today, means " the people rule. " A democracy is a form of government is run by the people of that country through elections and representation. A democracy is...
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5 Th Century Fifth Century
810 wordsThe political and social upheaval caused by the Persian Wars as well as continued strife between Athens and Sparta had at least one unintended consequence. In the 5 th century, a flood of new ideas poured into Athens. In general, these new ideas came as a result of an influx of Ionian thinkers into the Attic peninsula. Athens had become the intellectual and artistic center of the Greek world. Furthermore, by the mid- 5 th century, it had become more common for advanced thinkers to reject traditi...
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Philosopher King Direct Democracy
1,604 words... was perhaps Socrates' most famous student. He was twenty-eight years old when Socrates was put to death. At the age of forty, Plato established a school at Athens for the education of Athenian youth. The Academy, as it was called, remained in existence from 387 B. C. to A. D. 529, when it was closed by Justinian, the Byzantine emperor. Our knowledge of Socrates comes to us from numerous dialogues which Plato wrote after 399. In nearly every dialogue and there are more than thirty that we kno...
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Role In Society Boys And Girls
1,876 wordsSpartan Women Introduction Issues that concerned women have been present in history since ancient time. It was not just a case: mankind has always been preoccupied with the problem of family, gender roles, moral choice, good and evil; and love, closely related to moral and religion has been looked upon as possible to provide some answers for the questions. Spartan women are often spoken in the context of social phenomenon. No doubts that women enjoyed some evident benefits. For example, when a h...
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Walls Of The City Womens Issue Antigone
915 wordsOne of the most devastating problems for the Classical Greeks was the womens issue. Women in Classical Greece were not citizens, held no property, and indeed were not even allowed out of the house except under guard. Their status differed from that of the slaves of Greece only in name. This alone, however was not a problem the problem was that the Greeks knew, in their hearts, that this was wrong. Indeed, their playwrights harangued them about it from the stage of Athens continually. All of the ...
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Asia Minor City States
619 wordsPersian Wars In 519 BC Darius I ascended the throne of the expanding empire of Persia. A group of people called the Ionians, lived along the coast of Asia Minor. They were under Persian rule, having been conquered by Emperor Cyrus (ruled 550 - 530 BC), and at this time were unhappy about their conditions. In 499 BC Aristagoras, the leader Miletus, one of the city-states, organized a revolt of all the rest of the city-states along the coast. Dariusmanaged however, to subdue things in a five-year ...
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Common Men Of Athens Men Of Athens League
804 wordsPower in the Hands of the Many In reading the political speech by the Old Oligarch, it is not hard to see just how bitter some Athenians were about the institution of Democracy. This being so, one must examine the reverse side of the coin, the empowerment of the lower class known as the? commons? . The Athenian democracy brought with it a variety of opportunity for the common men of Athens. Prior to this period, the upper class held the top positions and had the final say in governmental proceed...
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Ancient Greece Bronze Age
889 wordsThe Greek peninsula Untitled Greece The Greek peninsula has been culturally linked with the Aegean Islands, and the west coast of Asia Minor since the Neolithic Age. The numerous natural harbors and close-lying islands lead to a unified, maritime civilization. However cultural unity did not produce political unity. Mountain ranges and deep valleys separated the peninsula into small economic and political units. Constant feuding between cities and surrounding empires for political power made Gree...
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