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Peace Was Made Cities That Were At War Women
567 wordsBy most accounts Aristophanes was the greatest comic writer of his day. On his shoulders alone rests an entire age of comedy. By the time Aristophanes began to write his comedies, the people of Athens were increasingly demoralized by the ongoing conflicts of the Peloponnesian War. That is why in most of his plays there are tones of apprehension and grief. Lysistrata was written twenty-one years into the Peloponnesian War. Although the play is light-hearted, it was written out of the writers grie...
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Oxford Oxford University Plato Believed
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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Influence Of Ancient Greek Times
1,271 wordsAll through history the Greeks have influenced our lives in more ways than most people could imagine. To this day we use many ideas and ways of life that the Greeks used thousands of years ago. "Everywhere Greek traders went, they took Greek ideas with them. People throughout the ancient world were influenced by Greek thought and culture. "Their greatness was largely the result of achievements of their artists, scientists, and philosophers. " The Greeks developed the study of many sciences, incl...
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Great Warrior P 1
427 wordsMenelaus (Born 70 (possibly) died 130) Menelaus although a great warrior was also a great observer and thinker. Menelaus was the son of Atreus. Menelaus brother was the leader of the Trojan army, Agamemnon. Although he was not a major warrior in the war, his brother was the commander in chief of the forces against Troy (Parada, p. 2). Although little is known about Menelauss life in Alexandria, other records show that he recorded astrological records. Menelaus observed the occultation of the sta...
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King Of Ithaca Telemachus
672 wordsThe Odyssey, though named for the great warrior and story focus Odysseus, cannot be soley regarded as a single man's journey. The growth in intellect, maturity, and strength the Odysseus undergoes is reflected distinctly in his son, Telemachus. In the first books, other characters continue to treat him much as a child, and in many respects, Telemachus still acts like one. The first few books illustrate the relationship between Telemachus and his father, a father he has barely known. When Odysseu...
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Bill Of Rights Thirty Thousand
900 wordsThe Aristotelian view of democracy showed democracy as a supreme state of being, promoting equality more than anything. It allowed every person to have as much say in a government as any other person, and yet still allowed individuality to reign. To follow this path of true democracy is to follow the path to a perfect country. Yet America, which prides itself on being a truly democratic nation, is filled with corruption and extortion, nothing like the Utopia Aristotle portrayed. America is in th...
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Education System Public Land
1,233 wordsThe Laconians had a particularly strict and defined notion of citizenship. Only adult males who could prove their descent from original Doran conquerors, who had completed their training at the above, (the Spartan state education system which turned boys into warriors) and who had been accepted to the public messes were considered to be part of the homolog; Spartiate's or equals. With such a rigid structure in defining the men of the citizen class, at her peak Sparta's military which was compris...
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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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Idea Of Peace Women Of Athens Feel
1,050 wordsFirst, the mentalities of most citizens are that of following the crowd. If small groups of people change their view of our status in activities of war, they will influence other people to change their minds, and so on. Slowly we will find that large areas of Athens will alter their opinions, not only because they feel that they are right, but also so that they may fit in with the majority, therefore spreading the idea of peace and retraction from fighting. Then if the decision is made to withdr...
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Individual Can Attain Philosophical Doctrine Socrates
724 wordsSocrates 1. One of the most important charges, brought against Socrates at his trial, was accusation of atheism. He used to say unexamined life is not worth living, which can be considered as appeal to reason, rather then to belief. Socrates considered peoples ability to operate with abstract categories as such that differentiates them from animals. What Socrates could have meant by saying this is that only those who are capable of logical analyzing can be considered as humans, in full sense of ...
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Greek Mythology Accessed April
740 wordsHelen of Troy There are just few women who perhaps can be counted on the finger tips of one hand who are famed in history for their beauty and the consequent events that followed because of this fatalistic gift of nature. Helen of Troy as we famously know her is among this select group and very rightly inspired the famously know line of, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships... ?" . Since ancient times Helen is probably one of the most inspirational women of all time as she became a ...
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United States And The Twentieth Century
797 wordsUnited States and the Twentieth Century The two main dilemmas of democracy are following: 1) If people are equal, why there is no even a slightest practical proof of it, throughout the history? 2) The assumption of people's equality contradicts the most basic laws of natural selection, upon which modern biology is based. Therefore, we can talk of equality, as rather highly abstract concept, which has nothing to do with the realities of everyday life. In United States, we are witnessing left-wing...
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Peloponnesian War Political Life
422 wordsPlato's Life There is an ancient story (very likely a true one) that Plato was originally named Aristocles, but acquired the nickname Plato (broad or wide in Greek) on account of his broad shoulders. Both of Plato's parents were from distinguished aristocratic families. Plato himself, because of family connections and expectations as well as personal interest, looked forward to a life of political leadership. Besides being born into an illustrious family, Plato was born into an illustrious city....
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Olive Oil Greek Civilization
1,574 wordsGreek cuisine: The Greeks usually eat 3 meals a day. The first meal of the day is Breakfast. A typical Greek breakfast consists of a piece of bread, some goat milk and strong Turkish coffee. The Greeks do not eat a large breakfast typically. Their next meal of the day is Lunch it is usually eaten around twelve to two pm. It is also a light meal like breakfast. Dinner is usually eaten later at night than most people are accustomed to. It is eaten between 8 - 9 pm. This is the largest meal of the ...
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Ancient Greek Trojan War
878 wordsThe greeks were fascinating ye BRISEIS Captive girl originally awarded to Achilleus but taken by Agamemnon, precipitating the wrath of Achilleus. CATALOG OF SHIPS Long descriptive passage in Book II outlining all the battle contingents at Troy. CHRYSEIS Captive girl taken by Agamemnon. Apollo forces him to return her by sending a plague on the Greek forces. CHRYSES Father of Chryseis, priest of Apollo. DACTYLIC HEXAMETER The metrical form used by Homer in his epic poems, consisting of six feet o...
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Daughter Of Zeus Ten Year
665 wordsHelen-A Ten Year War What is mythology? According to James Harvey Stout, it is an organized collection of stories by which we explain our beliefs in history. Myths usually confront major issues such as the origin of humanity and its traditions. It is the way in which the natural and human worlds function on a universal level. Other myth narrate the deities daily activities their love affairs and pleasures, their jealousies and rages, their ambitions and schemes, and their quarrels and battles. H...
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Book And Movie End Of The Book
1,177 wordsThe racism factor during sixties in the United States of America was huge. To the American people, the black people had only one purpose and that was as slaves. But we know now that the only difference between black and white people is color. The writing on this essay is black. Does that mean I am racist? Does this mean the color red is better than the color blue just because it looks different? That is for you to decide. In the Heat of the Night, takes place in the southern states in the sixtie...
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Lycergus Spartan Felt
261 wordsIn ancient Greece, the most feared named was Sparta. It was a total war machine willing to take on all comers. They rose above the rest by being well disciplined and educated. The man who brought them this glory was Lycergus. Like any great leader he was very idealistic. His main goal was to change Sparta into a complete city state. It is believed that he was born between the eighth and tenth century. Most historians dont believe he existed at all. He was from the Eurypontid house which was one ...
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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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Taught To Love Strength And Bravery People
901 wordsPros and Cons of the Spartans PROS 1 st- A positive aspect of the Spartan Code was the idea to train their young beginning at a young age, by giving power to the state to control the youth. This allowed many of the children to have an equal opportunity in the situation given although they did not have many options. They could all be taught the same concepts, and this would create more unity among the people which was very important, although the method by which they took action upon this was som...
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