Synopses of the Surviving Comedies (30 plays)
... Paphlagonian some of the oracles which he carefully guards. These oracles reveal to them that the Paphlagonian is destined to be overthrown by a sausage-seller; and sure enough, along comes a sausage-seller on his way to the market. They pounce on this bewildered man, assure him that he is destined ...
... Paphlagonian some of the oracles which he carefully guards. These oracles reveal to them that the Paphlagonian is destined to be overthrown by a sausage-seller; and sure enough, along comes a sausage-seller on his way to the market. They pounce on this bewildered man, assure him that he is destined ...
not for circulation - Ancient History and Classics @ hansbeck.org
... of the day, the contest for Agariste was open only to Hellenes, whose intentions, according to Herodotus, were once again fueled by their shared Greekness. Foreign suitors were deliberately excluded from the circle of Cleisthenes’ potential sons-in-law. The term foreign, therefore, merely follows En ...
... of the day, the contest for Agariste was open only to Hellenes, whose intentions, according to Herodotus, were once again fueled by their shared Greekness. Foreign suitors were deliberately excluded from the circle of Cleisthenes’ potential sons-in-law. The term foreign, therefore, merely follows En ...
Summer Latin Revival #4
... Theseus and his father, king Aegeus, were living in Athens. At that time, the people of the island kingdom Crete were demanding a penalty: the Athenians were sending seven young men and the same number of girls to there. These pitiful victims were giving their lives to the Minotaur. Theseus said to ...
... Theseus and his father, king Aegeus, were living in Athens. At that time, the people of the island kingdom Crete were demanding a penalty: the Athenians were sending seven young men and the same number of girls to there. These pitiful victims were giving their lives to the Minotaur. Theseus said to ...
Coping with a new Situation - Utrecht University Repository
... Ancient sources speak about contacts and friendships between Greek and nonGreek elites. Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Aristotle deliver descriptions that show Greek elites not only had ties within Greece, but also kept contact with elite families elsewhere. Whilst Athens developed her ...
... Ancient sources speak about contacts and friendships between Greek and nonGreek elites. Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Aristotle deliver descriptions that show Greek elites not only had ties within Greece, but also kept contact with elite families elsewhere. Whilst Athens developed her ...
Silver Coins and Public Slaves in the Athenian Law of
... Near East and above all in Egypt. The style and the legends of these imitations, to say nothing of their proveniences, clearly revealed their non-Athenian origins to the eyes of trained observers.5 T.V. Buttrey has now suggested, however, that huge numbers of imitations were also minted in Egypt who ...
... Near East and above all in Egypt. The style and the legends of these imitations, to say nothing of their proveniences, clearly revealed their non-Athenian origins to the eyes of trained observers.5 T.V. Buttrey has now suggested, however, that huge numbers of imitations were also minted in Egypt who ...
Socrates: His Life and Times
... apparently hoped that the abolition of the democracy would led to the possibility of his being permitted to return to Athens. He had two reasons to want to go home again. First, his negotiations with the Persians had aroused the suspicions of the Spartans, and, second, he had seduced the wife of on ...
... apparently hoped that the abolition of the democracy would led to the possibility of his being permitted to return to Athens. He had two reasons to want to go home again. First, his negotiations with the Persians had aroused the suspicions of the Spartans, and, second, he had seduced the wife of on ...
Socrates: An outline biography
... prominent in Athenian life because of the range and quality of his mind and his ideas. Athenians who came to know him held that whatever about his appearance he was "all glorious within". He was on speaking terms with many of those who were at the centre of Athenian affairs. Alike with other citizen ...
... prominent in Athenian life because of the range and quality of his mind and his ideas. Athenians who came to know him held that whatever about his appearance he was "all glorious within". He was on speaking terms with many of those who were at the centre of Athenian affairs. Alike with other citizen ...
Mark scheme - Unit F393 - Greek history - Conflict and culture
... How far do the sources enable us to assess the extent to which differing political ideologies were the cause of the conflict within Greece in this period? AO1 Details of the ideologies operating in Greece, principally those adopted by Athens and Sparta – democracy and oligarchy. A range of sources c ...
... How far do the sources enable us to assess the extent to which differing political ideologies were the cause of the conflict within Greece in this period? AO1 Details of the ideologies operating in Greece, principally those adopted by Athens and Sparta – democracy and oligarchy. A range of sources c ...
Abstract
... Themistocles; in fact, every appearance of Themistocles in the Histories revolves around a major action or decision, which he influences in one way or another (e.g. 7.173.2; 8.4.2; 8.19; 8.22). For instance, Themistocles plays an integral part first in convincing the Athenians to construct ships of ...
... Themistocles; in fact, every appearance of Themistocles in the Histories revolves around a major action or decision, which he influences in one way or another (e.g. 7.173.2; 8.4.2; 8.19; 8.22). For instance, Themistocles plays an integral part first in convincing the Athenians to construct ships of ...
1 LT338 NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES`S CLOUDS AND FROGS
... ARETE : Most Sophists claimed to teach arete (excellence) in the management of one's own affairs and especially in the administration of the affairs of the city. Up to the fifth century B.C. it was the common belief that arete was inborn and that aristocratic birth alone qualified a person for polit ...
... ARETE : Most Sophists claimed to teach arete (excellence) in the management of one's own affairs and especially in the administration of the affairs of the city. Up to the fifth century B.C. it was the common belief that arete was inborn and that aristocratic birth alone qualified a person for polit ...
Legal Profession in Ancient Athens - NDLScholarship
... had already stated that a leader of men was always "a speaker of words and a doer of deeds" - incidentally a brilliant definition of a good and competent lawyer. Stimulating and often sharply championed contests over the best means of promoting the common good soon became an essential aspect of the ...
... had already stated that a leader of men was always "a speaker of words and a doer of deeds" - incidentally a brilliant definition of a good and competent lawyer. Stimulating and often sharply championed contests over the best means of promoting the common good soon became an essential aspect of the ...
Lycon - Gocathedral
... effectively. Sophists trained Athenian men in rhetoric. Skill of clever debate which aimed at winning arguments with little concern for the truth Sophists taught others to persuade. They were not concerned with how their pupils used this skill. They would teach one to prove anything. Sophists gained ...
... effectively. Sophists trained Athenian men in rhetoric. Skill of clever debate which aimed at winning arguments with little concern for the truth Sophists taught others to persuade. They were not concerned with how their pupils used this skill. They would teach one to prove anything. Sophists gained ...
Greek Imperialism - McMaster University, Canada
... but the federation of city-states was being still perfected two hundred years afterwards. In government, as in science, the classic period was but the youthful bloom of Greece, whereas its vigorous maturity — in which it was cut down by Rome — came in the Macedonian time. Briefly stated, my thesis i ...
... but the federation of city-states was being still perfected two hundred years afterwards. In government, as in science, the classic period was but the youthful bloom of Greece, whereas its vigorous maturity — in which it was cut down by Rome — came in the Macedonian time. Briefly stated, my thesis i ...
Trial of Socrates
... The year is 399 BC. It is five years after the end of the war with Sparta. Life has not been good for the Athenians. After the war, Sparta put the Thirty Tyrants in charge of Athens. This was an oligarchy of thirty people that limited many of the rights and freedoms of the Athenian people. Athenians ...
... The year is 399 BC. It is five years after the end of the war with Sparta. Life has not been good for the Athenians. After the war, Sparta put the Thirty Tyrants in charge of Athens. This was an oligarchy of thirty people that limited many of the rights and freedoms of the Athenian people. Athenians ...
from athens to alexander
... who, from their brilliant seamanship at Salamis, won full participation in radical Athenian democracy. However, the miracle of the Greek victory over Xerxes' Persians also soon led to an uneasy partnership between the land power Sparta and the maritime Athenians. True, their respective preeminent ar ...
... who, from their brilliant seamanship at Salamis, won full participation in radical Athenian democracy. However, the miracle of the Greek victory over Xerxes' Persians also soon led to an uneasy partnership between the land power Sparta and the maritime Athenians. True, their respective preeminent ar ...
Theseus and the Minotaur A long time ago, the island of Crete was
... Finally, the day arrived and Theseus set sail with the thirteen other young Athenians. They raised a black sail in remembrance of the previous young Athenians who had died at the hands of the Minotaur. The journey was hazardous and dramatic and added to the tension onboard the boat. The crew suffere ...
... Finally, the day arrived and Theseus set sail with the thirteen other young Athenians. They raised a black sail in remembrance of the previous young Athenians who had died at the hands of the Minotaur. The journey was hazardous and dramatic and added to the tension onboard the boat. The crew suffere ...
Sparta - wildehistory
... Sparta achieved a series of land victories, but many of her ships were destroyed at the battle of Cnidus by a Greek-Phoenician mercenary fleet that Persia had provided to Athens. The event severely damaged Sparta's naval power but did not end its aspirations of invading further into Persia, until Co ...
... Sparta achieved a series of land victories, but many of her ships were destroyed at the battle of Cnidus by a Greek-Phoenician mercenary fleet that Persia had provided to Athens. The event severely damaged Sparta's naval power but did not end its aspirations of invading further into Persia, until Co ...
Rood 2009 - Sites@Duke
... land, we thought fit to leave the city, destroy our property.. .and run the risk of going on board our ships.(1.73.4, 74.2) The Athenian ambassadors' story is part of 'the Athenian history of Athens'-the succession of noble deeds that was narrated regularly, and in similar terms, on occasions such a ...
... land, we thought fit to leave the city, destroy our property.. .and run the risk of going on board our ships.(1.73.4, 74.2) The Athenian ambassadors' story is part of 'the Athenian history of Athens'-the succession of noble deeds that was narrated regularly, and in similar terms, on occasions such a ...
A Note On The Charges Against Socrates: Corrupting The Youth
... In 411 BC, during the Peloponnesian war, a group of aristocratic Athenians, among them Alcibiades and some other students of Socrates, overthrew the Athenian democracy. Alcibiades’ role in this was apparently to secure Persian support which, in the event, he failed to deliver. This oligarchy lasted ...
... In 411 BC, during the Peloponnesian war, a group of aristocratic Athenians, among them Alcibiades and some other students of Socrates, overthrew the Athenian democracy. Alcibiades’ role in this was apparently to secure Persian support which, in the event, he failed to deliver. This oligarchy lasted ...
An Application of Plato`s Theaetetus
... critical of Athens’s heroes because he sees corruption, not wisdom, in the graft, nepotism and extortion that enriched the four great heroes of Athens and their families and friends, first from Athens’s public treasury and later from the treasury of the Delian League. For the careful observer, corru ...
... critical of Athens’s heroes because he sees corruption, not wisdom, in the graft, nepotism and extortion that enriched the four great heroes of Athens and their families and friends, first from Athens’s public treasury and later from the treasury of the Delian League. For the careful observer, corru ...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCRATES IN THE
... der attack from Boeotian footsoldiers, was surprised by a troop of cavalry. Socrates' heroic behavior in the retreat is praised by Laches (Laches 181b) the following winter and later by Alcibiades (Plato, Symposium 221a). [424 Laches] The dialogue, on the nature of courage, shows Socrates as a fr ...
... der attack from Boeotian footsoldiers, was surprised by a troop of cavalry. Socrates' heroic behavior in the retreat is praised by Laches (Laches 181b) the following winter and later by Alcibiades (Plato, Symposium 221a). [424 Laches] The dialogue, on the nature of courage, shows Socrates as a fr ...
Kings of Thebes - the OLLI at UCI Blog
... abducted him. Pelops cursed him. Oracle at Delphi warned Laius about the children who were to be born. Excerpt with the oracle from Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: “I will give you a son, but you are destined to die in his hands. This is the decision of Zeus, in answer to the bitter curses of Pelop ...
... abducted him. Pelops cursed him. Oracle at Delphi warned Laius about the children who were to be born. Excerpt with the oracle from Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: “I will give you a son, but you are destined to die in his hands. This is the decision of Zeus, in answer to the bitter curses of Pelop ...
M. Lang, Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse
... (a) ‘Revolution of the : Chronology and Constitutions’ () is the earliest and longest published essay in the book, still cited, though rarely accepted in toto, six decades later. Lang ingeniously attempts to reconcile Aristotle’s and Thucydides’ analyses of the oligarchic takeover at Athens, ...
... (a) ‘Revolution of the : Chronology and Constitutions’ () is the earliest and longest published essay in the book, still cited, though rarely accepted in toto, six decades later. Lang ingeniously attempts to reconcile Aristotle’s and Thucydides’ analyses of the oligarchic takeover at Athens, ...
Peter Marciano
... as if Solon is scared to change Athens as drastically as Lycurgus changed Sparta. According to Plutarch, Phanias says ...
... as if Solon is scared to change Athens as drastically as Lycurgus changed Sparta. According to Plutarch, Phanias says ...
Who was Solon? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why+was+it+necessary+
... constitutional reforms. His works only survive in fragments. They appear to feature interpolations by later authors and it is possible that fragments have been wrongly attributed to him (see Solon the reformer and poet). Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarchare the main source of informatio ...
... constitutional reforms. His works only survive in fragments. They appear to feature interpolations by later authors and it is possible that fragments have been wrongly attributed to him (see Solon the reformer and poet). Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarchare the main source of informatio ...
Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first phase, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese attempting to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. This period of the war was concluded in 421 BC, with the signing of the Peace of Nicias. That treaty, however, was soon undermined by renewed fighting in the Peloponnese. In 415 BC, Athens dispatched a massive expeditionary force to attack Syracuse in Sicily; the attack failed disastrously, with the destruction of the entire force, in 413 BC. This ushered in the final phase of the war, generally referred to either as the Decelean War, or the Ionian War. In this phase, Sparta, now receiving support from Persia, supported rebellions in Athens' subject states in the Aegean Sea and Ionia, undermining Athens' empire, and, eventually, depriving the city of naval supremacy. The destruction of Athens' fleet at Aegospotami effectively ended the war, and Athens surrendered in the following year. Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved but Sparta refused.The Peloponnesian War reshaped the ancient Greek world. On the level of international relations, Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning, was reduced to a state of near-complete subjection, while Sparta became established as the leading power of Greece. The economic costs of the war were felt all across Greece; poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens found itself completely devastated, and never regained its pre-war prosperity. The war also wrought subtler changes to Greek society; the conflict between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta, each of which supported friendly political factions within other states, made civil war a common occurrence in the Greek world. Greek warfare, meanwhile, originally a limited and formalized form of conflict, was transformed into an all-out struggle between city-states, complete with atrocities on a large scale. Shattering religious and cultural taboos, devastating vast swathes of countryside, and destroying whole cities, the Peloponnesian War marked the dramatic end to the fifth century BC and the golden age of Greece.