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Greek City States Ways Of Life
1,243 words
Compare and contrast how the ideas about
government affected the governing of Sparta and
Athens. Even in single countries, different
regions sometimes have governments that are very
similar and at the same time, very different. Such
a case occurred in ancient Greece, in the
city-states of Sparta and Athens. While Sparta was
more based on oligarchy, Athens was a democracy.
Their profound differences in rule often caused
them to war against each other. These two
significant ancient Greek city-stat...
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Persian Wars Greek History
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HOW ATHENS TOOK OVER LEADERSHIP OF SPARTA AFTER
THE PERSIAN WARS During the period of Greek
history from the last years of the Persian Wars
till the beginning of the First Peloponnesian War,
the primacy of Sparta declined while Athens was
gaining increased influence in Greece. The
Athenian, Thucydides (460 - 400 BC), one among few
contemporary historians, left behind the most
creditable records about this period. Although he
did not give enough documentation for many events
he described, his His...
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Athenian Women Physical Training
980 words
If you were a woman how would you rather be
treated? If you are the relaxed, dependent type,
perhaps you would find the life of the typical
Athenian woman agreeable. Athenian women spent
most of their lives indoors doing mostly domestic
activities. But if you are an independent type of
lady, who enjoys exercise, not overly modest, and
do not mind sharing your bed with more than one
man, then you would probably enjoy the life of a
Spartan woman. The basic similarity between the
lives of the women...
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Values And Of The Athenians Thru Parthenon
969 words
In the 5 th century BCE Athens was thriving. At
the time the Parthenon was built, in the 440 s and
430 s BCE on the Acropolis at Athens, Athens had
more wealth and more subordinate allies than any
other Greek city had ever had before. With a bit
of arrogance, they decided to go through with an
enormous building project despite the objections
and embarrassment of a few. The Parthenon was the
largest temple built on the Acropolis, the hill
the building project took place on. Some of the
other buil...
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Golden Age Of Athens And Women
779 words
The Golden Age of Athens was one of the most
brilliant eras in Athenian history. Yet this
brilliance did not reflect womens roles during
this time period. The Golden Age of Athens was a
low point for women; through society's opinion of
women, the citys politics, and their household
lives. The Athenians viewed all classes of women
as an unimportant distraction to society. The most
constant view of woman in the Golden Age was that
they were only necessary to produce children.
Euripides from his bo...
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Golden Age Public Office
459 words
I would rather be Athenian. Too many simple
reasons factor in on this decision. The Spartans
were a much poorer society, and had less
intellectual inventions- saying something about
their education. All Athenian boys were expected
to get a great education, while Athenian girls
were taught such things as weaving and cooking.
The boys were expected to hold public office...
the girls were expected to cook. Life's not
sounding so bad. Another reason I would rather be
Athenian is because each yeah th...
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State Of Ignorance Socratic Dialogues Socrates
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... nt, this divinity asserts the futility of
human knowledge. Socrates could not expect for his
interlocutor to be capable of true definition, as
prophecy declares his superiority - through the
acknowledgement of ignorance - regarding wisdom.
Revealing Euthyphro's inability to define holiness
is, therefore, necessarily the objective. The
accepted Athenian views are also called upon to
aid the discussion. Initially, it is a banausic or
common belief that Euthyphro rejects concerning
the prosecut...
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A Midsummer Night Dream Quote Response Analysis
848 words
There are many themes in William Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream (1595 or 1596), the main
theme of the play is love. The main plot of the
play is composed of the interaction of two
Athenian couples (Hermit and Lysander, Helena, and
Demetrius), and Theseus (the duke of Athens),
Hippolyta (Theseus's oon to be wife), and Egeus
(Hermits father who does not consent of her love
to Lysander. Whose romantic purposes are
complicated even more when they enter the woods,
in which the King and Queen...
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5 Th Century Bc 4 Th Century
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Greek Pottery The pottery of the ancient Greeks
are important for the styles of decoration and for
the information it gives about Greek art (Sparkes
4). Because fired clay pottery is highly durable,
few or no Greek art works that were made in wood,
textile, or wall painting have survived (Sparkes
7). The painted decoration of pottery has become
the main source of information about how the
Greeks used pottery to solve many problems because
in that time period other materials where either
unknown ...
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Historic Achievements Of The City Athens
551 words
A city such as Athens triumphed over any other of
its time. This is mainly due to its great
achievements performed. In fact, a city so
powerful had an effect on western civilization
today. Many societies in modern times have been
positively helped by Athens. Athenian architecture
is a crucial element that made the city so
beautiful. No other city was nearly as divine as
Athens was. The creating of columns immensely
helped in the building of structures throughout
Greece. Indisputably, Greece was ...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Iii Ii
613 words
Comedy or tragedy that is the question,
Shakespeare has written more than a hand full of
plays. People consider Shakespeare as a sad person
that always wrote tragedies, but A Midsummer
Nights Dream on the other hand is not a tragedy.
It is with out a shadow of a doubt a comedy; there
are many reasons why A Midsummer Nights Dream is
one of Shakespeare's many comedies. A Midsummer
Nights Dream is about lovers falling in and out of
love for each other and in the end the lovers
think it is only A Mi...
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5 Th Century Fifth Century
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The 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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Play Was Staged Prize In Grand Dionesia Aristophanes
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Theatre History Oral Report Aristophanes (448? -
385 BC), Athenian playwright, considered one of
the greatest writers of comedy in literary
history. His plays have been produced through the
centuries and have remained popular because of
their wit, comic invention, and poetic language.
Aristophanes is believed to have been born in
Athens, Greece, in the deme, or township, of
Cydathenaeum. Presumably, he was well educated and
may have had property on the island of Aegina. He
had three sons-Philips...
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Century B C 5 Th Century
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During the 5 th Century B. C. , the Athenians
government, religion, and architecture were three
of the most important aspects of their polis. The
Athenians had a very good understanding of
government, literature, and science, and had more
influence on our civilization than any other
people in history. The Classical Period in Greece
lasted 150 years from 480 to 300 B. C. This is
when ancient Greek civilization was at its peak.
Athens population was about 300, 000 people. The
Athenians developed a...
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Individual Life Court System
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Plato. The Last Days of Socrates. London: Penguin
Books Ltd. , 1993 Imagine the time just after the
death of Socrates. The people of Athens were
filled with questions about the final judgment of
this well-known, long-time citizen of Athens.
Socrates was accused at the end of his life of
impiety and corruption of youth. Rumors,
prejudices, and questions flew about the town.
Plato experienced this situation when Socrates,
his teacher and friend, accepted the ruling of
death from an Athenian court....
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Ancient Times B C
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The Life of Epicurus Epicurus was born on February
4 th, 341 B. C. , the second of four brothers, on
the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea just off the
west coast of what is now Turkey (a region called
Ionia). Epicurus parents were cleruchy, a class of
poor Athenian citizens who settled territory
appropriated from the tributary states of Athens.
Cleruchs were looked down upon by Athenian
residents and scorned as foreign invaders by the
natives of the territories they settled, which
made their so...
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Ancient Greece Greek Society
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Women s role in Greece can be seen when one first
begins to do research on the subject. The subject
of women in Greece is coupled with the subject of
slaves. This is the earliest classification of
women in Greek society. Although women were
treated differently from city to city the basic
premise of that treatment never changed. Women
were only useful for establishing a bloodline that
could carry on the family name and give the proper
last rites to the husband. However, women did form
life long b...
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5 Th Century Ancient Greece
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5 th bce century greece The 5 th century BCE was a
period of great development in Ancient Greece, and
specifically Athens. The development of so many
cultural achievements within Athens and the
Athenian Empire has led historians to deem this
period a Golden Age. It is true that this period
had many achievements, but in light of the
Athenians treatment of women, metics, and slaves
it is a question whether or not the period can
truly be called Golden. During the 5 th century
some amazing achieveme...
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Greek City States Persian Wars
850 words
The Persian Wars PERSIAN WAR The Persian war was a
great war. It was fought between Greece and
Persia. Even though the war was fierce and there
were many casualties the outcome was great for
Greece. It brought the Greek city-states together
and it also boosted their morale and gave them the
confidence they needed to become an even greater
empire. Athens was the wealthiest Greek city-state
in 500 B. C. But they soon faced a threat of war
from the the Persians. The Persians had a great
empire that...
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Athenian Society Power Holders
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A Brief Comment on the Query: " Is Socrates
Guilty As Charged? " History of Political
Thought 47. 230 B Mini-Essay for Discussion Group
# 3 In any case of law, when one is considering
truth and justice, one must first look at the
validity of the court and of the entity of
authority itself. In Socrates case, the situation
is no different. One may be said to be guilty or
not of any said crime, but the true measure of
guilt or innocence is only as valid as the court
structure to which it ...
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