known as the warriors of Sparta. These Greeks along with other Greeks changed the history of the world when they went to war against the massive armies of their well-known enemy known as the Persians. These wars were soon to be called the Persian Wars. But before these wars would occur, there were reasons...
the Spartan king King Leonidas ad the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece during the year 480 B.C.. The long path to battle at Thermopylae began in what is now Iran, heart of the once vast Persian empire. Nowadays, ancient ruins attest...
The Persians and Greeks fought in the Persian Wars because of two main causes, the Persian expantion and the Ionian revolt. Cyrus the Great, an outstanding statesman and general, thought it was time for Persia to expand. Cirrus took his army and had triumphed in the Middle East. The Ionian...
A captive Greek, named Xeones, dictates his story to a scribe who works for the Persian King, Xerxes. The scribe forewarns Xerxes that the story contains much foul language, but the King wants to read exactly what Xeones has to say. Xeones sustains life-threatening battle wounds, and he had been dead...
cities, and the origins of famous Greek families. Athens and Sparta Sparta -Fear of a helot uprising led to the evolution- free from food- Sparta military training and service -The army of Sparta was superior to the citizen militias. Athens -Large and populous territory -594BCE solon broke the...
the Asiatic Greeks. Alyattes II first made war on Miletus which ended with a treaty of alliance between Miletus and Lydia,[3] which meant that Miletus would have internal autonomy but follow Lydia in foreign affairs. Thus they sent an army to aid him in his war against the Medes. During a battle between...
exploration Ø Discoveries, colonization Ø Mercantilism, capitalism Ø Onset of nationalism Ø Scientific revolution e. CONTEMPORARY Ø Post-war years Ø Global economic interdependence Ø Globalized patterns of life Ø Nationalism dominated political climate 2) Mesopotamian Civilization...
Ionic cities which had fought against him in the war, asked to be governed with the same terms as they were before, under the kindly and benevolent king Croesos. Cyrus refused and the league met at the Panionion and decided to ask the aid of Sparta. A Persian guard of Darius, "Immortal", from his palace...
Thucydides's account of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, document # 34.] In Ancient Greece there were two different major forms of government, Oligarchy and Democracy. The two city-states that best represent each form of government were Sparta (oligarchy) and Athens (democracy). The oligarchic...
Key Terms Agora – Greek marketplace Bard – Storyteller Arete – Strive for excellence Ephors – 5 overseers of Sparta Archons – Rulers of Athens Phalanx – Military formation Frescoes – paintings on wet plaster Pater Familias – Father of one’s country Hoplite – Foot soldier Sophist – Teacher ...
famous in Athens while he was still a young man. He seldom social with friends, rarely did him appear in public, and only on the most important occasions. Then, when he spoke to the people, his words were like thunder and lightning. The Parthenon and all of the famous statues and buildings of Athens were...
time period. Herodotus helped historians understand what life was like in ancient times, and gave insight as to what happened during the Greek and Persians wars. Herodotus gives a very detailed description of the battle of Thermopylae, and reveals pieces of Spartan and Greek culture, as well as the tyranny...
The Legacy of Ancient Rome and Greece I. Athens Builds a Limited Democracy Government: a system for controlling the society. Monarchy: A single person called a king or monarch ruling in the government. Aristocracy: a government ruled by a small group of noble...
times. The Spartans life was simple, and their focus was on obedience and war. While Athenian life allowed one to pursue several kinds of arts or sciences. While Romans had a republic, which included a king, assemblies senators. War ultimately lead to the fall of these cultures, yet the modern west adopted...
design throughout history. The Golden Age of Greece began around 460 BCE during the reign of Pericles, who spent his time rebuilding the center of Athens. A democracy and set of rules had been established, and the captivating buildings of the Acropolis were built. Athenian buildings mostly followed simplistic...
oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy. Sparta was a famous example of an oligarchy while Corinth was best known for its tyranny. It was Athens that developed Greece’s first known democracy by allowing all male citizens to participate in governing and voting. Athens practiced a more direct democracy where...
they were still independent from each other, so they had their differences. Sparta tried eliminating many of the inequalities between men and women as well as giving male citizens equal opportunities in war and politics. According to excerpts from Xenophon on the Constitution of the Lacedaemonians...
not the case in ancient Sparta. Here women were somewhat emancipated and free to socialise and exercise like their male counterparts. The role of these superior women was to ultimately bear healthy children, create indoctrinated offspring and create the future warriors of Sparta. However some controversy...
The Gulf war is a conflict between Iraq and UN coalitions, mostly led by United States. The mission was to liberate Kuwait and prevent Iraq from taking over Kuwait. The Gulf War had a great impact on Kuwait socially and economically, the process of rebuilding the economy has been hard for Kuwait. First...
Greece into a military superpower, he did this by playing up the cultural differences and sibling rivalry between Macedonia and the city states of Athens, Sparta and Thebes who in all fairness were also all competing to be the hallmarks of Greek civilization. While Phillip was “unifying” Greece Alex...
Alexander III the Great, the King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times. He was inspiration for later conquerors such as Hannibal the Carthaginian, the Romans Pompey and Caesar, and Napoleon. Alexander was born in 356 BC in...
and ways to record it. War seemed to be the shaping idea used by Herodotus and Thucydides to put forth their views on cultural history. Although the two men differed in their approach to the accounts of the wars, they both had a historical aim in writing history using war. Herodotus ended his cultural...
Age of Pericles The Age of Pericles was a very important time period because it had a major impact on life today. It was ran by a direct democracy which gives citizens direct part in day to day affairs of government. It can give people a little too much freedom in which they...
EFFECTS OF WARS War is an armed conflict between two or more groups which attack each other. Although the meaning of wars has changed, the importance of wars hasn’t changed. Wars break out for various reasons. There are wars between countries or nations and within the nation. The latter is...
among which, probably the Lion Gates was the most famous. Worship of god was popular and it played a vital role in determining wars between states. Therefore, mysterious tales of wars could be found in Homer’s works, such as “Iliad” and “Odyssey”. Between 1200 BC and 338 BC, Hellenes, composed of Dorians...
The Athenians and the Spartans had their differences. This led to the Spartans invading the city-state…Athens, the ‘marathon’, and the revolution of democracy. These two city-states were so differential, even though they were located nearby each other. Their close locations, although, may have been what...
In the play Lysistrata, the main character is an Athenian woman by the name of Lysistrata. Infuriated by the Peloponnesian War, Lysistrata decided to take it upon herself to bring an end to the destruction and torn-apart families by any means possible. Through leadership, respect and intelligence Lysistrata...
Tatarus. • Achilles Son of Thetis, one of great warriors in the Trojan War. He dies from being shot with an arrow on the heel. • Aeneas Son of Aphrodite, was another one of the great warriors on the Trojan’s side of the Trojan War. He was second to Hector. Aeneas escapes Greeks with his father and son...
Many movies and television shows today have been inspired by historical events, some based on war and others on the reign of a great or terrible emperor. Of the many historical movies, I have decided to do my movie review and historical on “300 Spartans”. This movie was based on the battle of Thermopylae...
the first total war? ‘Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?’ screeched the Propaganda Minister for the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels, to a frenzied audience at the Berlin Sportpalast. ‘Ja!’ was the overly enthusiastic response. It was 18th February 1943 when Goebbels called for total war; yet what exactly...
when they died (except for a very select few) and that basically only the gods could live in heaven.EARTHGOD.Net c. BC 1200 Presumed period of Trojan War Sacrilegious Agamemnon, leader of all the Achaeans (Greeks), captured a priestess of Apollo. When Agamemnon refused to return the priestess to her...
Mediterranean Sea from about 800 B.C.E. until the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 C.E. rivaled their counterparts in India and China in richness and impact. Centered first in the peninsula of Greece, then in Rome, the new Mediterranean culture did not merely constitute a westward push of civilization from...
included in the film. Being able to give a vivid on screen projection of what the war was like, the idea of millions of soldiers facing a group of 300 men, and a few extra who volunteered. Still giving scenery of what life in Sparta could have been portrayed as in that time. A lot of work in screen developing...
Greeks. RITE OF PASSAGE Many people who experience battle for the first time find themselves panicked, totally unprepared for the horrors of war. Waging war is not a task for the inexperienced civilian. As a result, religious rituals were formed that would brace the aspiring warrior for the obscenities...
respects did the lifestyle of women in Athens differ from that of women elsewhere in Greece? Athenian women have been traditionally seen as cloistered and secluded from the social, political and economic life of the polis. This essay explores the roles of women in Athens and their contributions to the polis...
By Graham E. Fuller --What if Islam had never existed? To some, it’s a comforting thought: No clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. Would Christianity have taken over the world? Would the Middle East be a peaceful beacon of democracy? Would 9/11 have happened? In fact, remove Islam from...
Space Agency since 2005.[16] It is also a founding member of the United Nations, the OECD,[17] and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization. Athens is the capital and the largest city in the country; other major cities include Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion, Larissa and Volos. Greece was the...
Odyssey, is set in Greece and tells the story of the King of Ithaca, Odysseus, who has been missing for ten years after leaving to fight the Trojan War in order to save the Phaeacians. His son, Telemachus, is left in control of Ithaca during his father’s absence. While waiting for his father’s return...
that the reason for Sparta not going to war at this time is due to the mystics at the oracle who were ultimately bribed by the Persians to go against Sparta going to war. By having this secondary plot in movie it would lead the viewer to believe that Sparta did not support the war for political reasons...
Lycurgus? Lycurgus was the famous lawgiver of Sparta. An influential and powerful man who was written about often by Aristotle and Xenophon. Though very little is known about him. This is why there are many debates on whether he was a real person, or why Sparta would look to the one lawgiver. However he...
border of the Greek empire 10. Draco – Draconian code of law (lawmaker) 11. Salon – created constitution between people and govt. 12. Athens, Sparta, & Troy – Major city states of Greece 13. Greek senate – appointed to office 14. Council of 500 – first legislature, elected by adult...
Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2012. * The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous, trans. Andrew George, New York: Penguin Books, 1999. * Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. John Minford, New York: Penguin Books, 2009. * Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince, trans. Peter Bondanella, Oxford: Oxford University Press...
well as attitudes towards the Peloponnesian War. These aspects of Greek society are important in understanding the concept and plot illustrated in the play Lysistrata. The Peloponnesian war is greatly relevant when studying the play Lysistrata. The War was the result of a treaty signed in 445 BC....
transcribed Teteo Inan) ("The Mother of Gods"), is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. She is also known as Toci, ("Our Grandmother"), and Cihuacoatl, ("The Lady of the serpent"), the patron of women who die in childbirth. The word "Coatlicue"...
not be blamed for the Trojan War according to the narrators in the accounts we have read, and why? Pinpointing the cause of the Trojan War to one person I believe is a naive assumption. The Gods and Goddesses, Paris and Odysseus also played a part in starting the Trojan War. The narrator in the Odyssey...
built, dominates Athens. Some of the world’s most famous classical structures are located at the site. These buildings include the Parthenon (a Doric temple built for Athena, the goddess of wisdom), the Propylaea, and the Erechtheum. They were constructed during the Golden Age of Athens (5th century bc)...
How the Civil War of 1991 Set Somalia up for Economic Failure; and Is Civil War the Common Denominator to Rampant Extreme Poverty? Part I: Main Objective, and Questions to be answered For this case study that I’ve written, I looked to find a country that was devastated by war in a way that it...
pre-existing eastern tradition; certainly Herodotus' Histories contains more detailed biographical information on Persian kings and subjects than on anyone else, implying he had a Persian source for it. The earliest surviving pieces which we would identify as biographical are Isocrates' Life of Evagoras...
demonstrated in ancient Sparta where women outnumbered men due to infanticide and war. Women were given many rights, such as the ability to own property, and the fining of a husband if he was at fault when she decided to divorce him. Spartan women wore revealing clothing, whereas in ancient Athens, a city in which...
Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of the ancient Greek colonization.[22] In the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), a large-scale population exchange between Greece and Turkey transferred and confined ethnic Greeks almost entirely into the borders of the...
oracle in all cases is a human or nonhuman medium through which people could communicate with the gods. Leaders faced with difficult decisions about war, politics, and any other important life issueswould often go to consult these oracles. The controversy can be seen as Herodotus provides examples in...
annually to honour the many who fell during Athens' many wars and campaigns against other countries. Though many Athenians were training in public speaking and oration, it must be emphasized that Pericles' speech held a great degree of weight given the current war against the Peloponnesians and Pericles'...
the Achaemenid Empire. During the occupation, they did a massive amount of destruction and plunder to Persia. Not only did they kill every single Persian man, the women and children were raped and put into slavery. Most people will agree that their actions were inhuman, however the Macedonians felt no...
usually doing so to human beings rather than a political theory, it is therefore very doubtful to describe someone who sees power politics and the use of war merely as a political instrument as sensible. From a realist viewpoint states are ‘self-help agents’, states, like men, are by ‘nature’ self-interested...
Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns, Thebes, Iolkos and Athens became the bureaucratic centres of their vast kingdom. This period of Mycenaean civilisation saw the conquest and settlement by Greeks. Their society was based essentially upon warfare and its elite class were war-chiefs. Their culture thrived for around...
WHY WAR WAS UNAVOIDABLE IN THE PERSIAN GULF AND WHY IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT IRAQ WOULD LOSE War was inevitable in the Gulf and it was a war in which Iraq was inevitable to lose. There were several reasons why this was and became a reality. How, when, where did this process of self destruction begin? It...
performed by the ancient Greeks were the very first accounts of theater, as we know it. It was in ancient Greece, particularly during the golden age of Athens, that the two genres known as tragedy and comedy were perfected. Later writers, such as Shakespeare, inherited these two principle forms of playwriting...
"What is this...you are cheating on me with Paris?" shouted Menelaus, king of Sparta. "Yes I have and I' am not ashamed of it, he gives me my needs!" exclaimed Helen. " I have the wisdom of Athena and the love of Aphrodite Menelaus, there is no way you can take her away from me now," whispered...
The system of government in Athens (which was the earliest city in Greece which started off with the idea of democracy) was divided into 3 tiers namely the ekklesia, the boule, and the dikasteria. THE EKKLESIA It is one of the major sovereign governing bodies of Athens. Any member of the voting demos...
these missions here and here.) In the summer of 327, Callisthenes voiced protests against the introduction of proskynesis (an aspect of the Persian court ritual) among the Macedonians, and lost Alexander's favor (more...). It is not clear what happened to Callisthenes: Aristobulus and Ptolemy,...