Introduction A Biography of Pericles in the Context of the Ancient
... oratory carried great inluence in political decision making. Somehow, his unvarying stress on employing knowledge-based reasoning and judgment motivated the majority of his fellow citizens – almost all of whom did not share his exceptional educational background or his interest in academic-sounding ...
... oratory carried great inluence in political decision making. Somehow, his unvarying stress on employing knowledge-based reasoning and judgment motivated the majority of his fellow citizens – almost all of whom did not share his exceptional educational background or his interest in academic-sounding ...
Twilight of the Polis
... 371/0 Athens invites all cities except Thebes to share the King’s Peace, with guarantees of autonomy and military support to any city, if it were attacked; Sparta and most of the Peloponnesian states present; Thebes not invited; Athens replaces Sparta as the defender of the King’s Peace and the auto ...
... 371/0 Athens invites all cities except Thebes to share the King’s Peace, with guarantees of autonomy and military support to any city, if it were attacked; Sparta and most of the Peloponnesian states present; Thebes not invited; Athens replaces Sparta as the defender of the King’s Peace and the auto ...
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... war. The only other possible outcome is slavery. Athenians: …We will not trouble you with phony claims that we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or we are attacking you because of the wrong you have done us. We will not make long speeches that you will not believe. In return, ...
... war. The only other possible outcome is slavery. Athenians: …We will not trouble you with phony claims that we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or we are attacking you because of the wrong you have done us. We will not make long speeches that you will not believe. In return, ...
Greece Bingo Questions and Answers
... 16. He is famous for developing the scientific method and tutoring Alexander the Great. Answer: Aristotle 17. He was the first individual to unite both Macedonia and Greece under one government. Answer: Philip II 18. In the Hellenistic Era, where was the great library that contained much of the know ...
... 16. He is famous for developing the scientific method and tutoring Alexander the Great. Answer: Aristotle 17. He was the first individual to unite both Macedonia and Greece under one government. Answer: Philip II 18. In the Hellenistic Era, where was the great library that contained much of the know ...
Previewing Your Textbook
... understand how each is unique. Look for signal words in the text. Some comparison signal words are same, at the same time, like, and still. Contrast signal words include some, others, different, however, rather, yet, but, and or. Read the passage about Persian religion and then look at the questions ...
... understand how each is unique. Look for signal words in the text. Some comparison signal words are same, at the same time, like, and still. Contrast signal words include some, others, different, however, rather, yet, but, and or. Read the passage about Persian religion and then look at the questions ...
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
... and he was probably not much over thirty when he was invested with power to reform his society. He began with a general amnesty,36 then abolished enslavement for debt 37 and gave freedom to those so enslaved, even those who had been sold abroad 38 (however he managed that). Next, he freed the hektem ...
... and he was probably not much over thirty when he was invested with power to reform his society. He began with a general amnesty,36 then abolished enslavement for debt 37 and gave freedom to those so enslaved, even those who had been sold abroad 38 (however he managed that). Next, he freed the hektem ...
The Athenian Decree for the N aturalisation of the Plataeans
... future generations and to serve as a quick check in case of doubt or dispute over individual citizen status. Display of an inscribed stele on the Acropolis was standard practice with naturalisation decrees. 15 Once this procedure was completed, individual Plataeans who had not yet registered (e.g. a ...
... future generations and to serve as a quick check in case of doubt or dispute over individual citizen status. Display of an inscribed stele on the Acropolis was standard practice with naturalisation decrees. 15 Once this procedure was completed, individual Plataeans who had not yet registered (e.g. a ...
Panagiotes Kontonasios University of Athens
... the system of government compared to that of the Greek -eminently the Atheniancrowd, which essentially gave birth to rhetorical theory. In this sense the Senate was also a special audience, as it was a political body with a particular function. The difference, however, is obvious: the Senate is not ...
... the system of government compared to that of the Greek -eminently the Atheniancrowd, which essentially gave birth to rhetorical theory. In this sense the Senate was also a special audience, as it was a political body with a particular function. The difference, however, is obvious: the Senate is not ...
IF Stone Breaks the Socrates Story
... Because in 411 B.C. and again in 404 B.C. antidemocrats had staged bloody revolutions and established short-lived dictatorships. The Athenians were afraid this might happened again. I haven’t found that in Plato. Plato didn’t intend that you should. Those are the realities his "Apology" was calcula ...
... Because in 411 B.C. and again in 404 B.C. antidemocrats had staged bloody revolutions and established short-lived dictatorships. The Athenians were afraid this might happened again. I haven’t found that in Plato. Plato didn’t intend that you should. Those are the realities his "Apology" was calcula ...
Pericles and the Plague: Civil Religion, Anomie, and
... Robert Bellah defines "civil religion" asa "collection of beliefs, symbols, and ritual with respect to sacred things and institutions in a collectivity" (Bellah 1967: 8). They serve to strengthen the community's religio-political identity and solidify their sense of transcendent religious realities ...
... Robert Bellah defines "civil religion" asa "collection of beliefs, symbols, and ritual with respect to sacred things and institutions in a collectivity" (Bellah 1967: 8). They serve to strengthen the community's religio-political identity and solidify their sense of transcendent religious realities ...
PBS Empires Video – “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” Episode
... 0:00 – Series Introduction: The Significance of the Greeks The Greeks. A people glorious and arrogant, valiant and headstrong. These were the men and women who laid the very foundations of Western Civilization. Their monuments still recall perhaps the most extraordinary two centuries in history, a t ...
... 0:00 – Series Introduction: The Significance of the Greeks The Greeks. A people glorious and arrogant, valiant and headstrong. These were the men and women who laid the very foundations of Western Civilization. Their monuments still recall perhaps the most extraordinary two centuries in history, a t ...
Theseus
... • Minos, the ruler of Crete, lost his son while he was visiting the Athenian King, Aegeus. • The son died on a dangerous expedition that the king had sent him on. • Minos invaded the country, captured Athens and declared that he would destroy the city every nine years if they didn’t send seven maide ...
... • Minos, the ruler of Crete, lost his son while he was visiting the Athenian King, Aegeus. • The son died on a dangerous expedition that the king had sent him on. • Minos invaded the country, captured Athens and declared that he would destroy the city every nine years if they didn’t send seven maide ...
PERICLES` RECKLESS MEGARIAN POLICY WAS
... that came to be called the Delian League, although it rapidly evolved into what can only be described as an Athenian Empire. The Athenian hegemony, based upon sea power, came to rub up against the traditional hegemony of land-based Sparta and its Peloponnesian League, a kind of looser alliance with ...
... that came to be called the Delian League, although it rapidly evolved into what can only be described as an Athenian Empire. The Athenian hegemony, based upon sea power, came to rub up against the traditional hegemony of land-based Sparta and its Peloponnesian League, a kind of looser alliance with ...
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... significant divergences from extant speeches in the Athenian funeral oratory genre suggest, moreover, that it may represent a more Platonic model. Yet in the playful conversation between Socrates and his friend Menexenus that frames the oration, Socrates insists he did not author it; rather, he clai ...
... significant divergences from extant speeches in the Athenian funeral oratory genre suggest, moreover, that it may represent a more Platonic model. Yet in the playful conversation between Socrates and his friend Menexenus that frames the oration, Socrates insists he did not author it; rather, he clai ...
The Peace of Nicias - ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
... ^This was against the wishes of Pericles. As a "General" ( Strategos ) he had no official say in foreign affairs, since that was the prerogative The right to declare war, and by implication, the right of the Assembly. to make peace, is spelled out in a constitution written in 410 B.C., but barkening ...
... ^This was against the wishes of Pericles. As a "General" ( Strategos ) he had no official say in foreign affairs, since that was the prerogative The right to declare war, and by implication, the right of the Assembly. to make peace, is spelled out in a constitution written in 410 B.C., but barkening ...
Battle of Marathon
... the first and last shock that has been felt to this day. And truly this was a prodigy whereby the god warned men of the evils that were coming upon them. For in the three following generations of Darius the son of Hystaspes, Xerxes the son of Darius, and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes, more woes befel ...
... the first and last shock that has been felt to this day. And truly this was a prodigy whereby the god warned men of the evils that were coming upon them. For in the three following generations of Darius the son of Hystaspes, Xerxes the son of Darius, and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes, more woes befel ...
Classical Greece
... place its beginning at the Ionian Revolt of 500 BC, the event that provoked the Persian invasion of 492 BC. The Persians were finally defeated in 490 BC. A second Persian attempt, despite having overrun much of modernday Greece (north of the Isthmus of Corinth) at a crucial point during the war follo ...
... place its beginning at the Ionian Revolt of 500 BC, the event that provoked the Persian invasion of 492 BC. The Persians were finally defeated in 490 BC. A second Persian attempt, despite having overrun much of modernday Greece (north of the Isthmus of Corinth) at a crucial point during the war follo ...
Thucydides and the invention of political science
... noble. He saw children born to them all, and all of these survived. His life was prosperous by our standards, and his death was most glorious: when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely. The Athenians buried him at public expe ...
... noble. He saw children born to them all, and all of these survived. His life was prosperous by our standards, and his death was most glorious: when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely. The Athenians buried him at public expe ...
Thucydides and Just War: How to Begin to Read
... forms of normative discourse not amoral theories of human ‘behaviour’. This leads us to the Melian Dialogue. Melos was a Spartan colony, and its leadership had refused, unlike the other island states of Greece, to be subject to Athens’ empire. In the Dialogue, two Athenian generals bluntly tell the ...
... forms of normative discourse not amoral theories of human ‘behaviour’. This leads us to the Melian Dialogue. Melos was a Spartan colony, and its leadership had refused, unlike the other island states of Greece, to be subject to Athens’ empire. In the Dialogue, two Athenian generals bluntly tell the ...
the classical agora
... According to Pausanias, the Prytaneion was located near the Cave of Aglauros. Since the Prytaneion was the core building of a polis, the city centre grew up around its ‘hearth’. Pausanias confirms he saw Solon’s laws inscribed in the Prytaneion, as well as an image of Hestia, both central images for ...
... According to Pausanias, the Prytaneion was located near the Cave of Aglauros. Since the Prytaneion was the core building of a polis, the city centre grew up around its ‘hearth’. Pausanias confirms he saw Solon’s laws inscribed in the Prytaneion, as well as an image of Hestia, both central images for ...
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 ...
THE ALLEGED FAILURE OF ATHENS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY
... Chaeronea was not the end, but by the time of the Lamian War the balance of power had changed too much for the attempt to strike back to succeed.10 So here I wish to ask once more how successful or unsuccessful Athens was in the fourth-century world, and why. ...
... Chaeronea was not the end, but by the time of the Lamian War the balance of power had changed too much for the attempt to strike back to succeed.10 So here I wish to ask once more how successful or unsuccessful Athens was in the fourth-century world, and why. ...
Mr. Belanger Adapted from Plutarch`s Life of Theseus
... girls. This tribute had to be paid because of the murder of Androgeus, the eldest son of King Minos of Crete, while he had been a guest of Aegeus in Attica. Minos avenged the death of his son with war, and in addition to the damage done to the Athenians by Minos' army, the gods also punished the lan ...
... girls. This tribute had to be paid because of the murder of Androgeus, the eldest son of King Minos of Crete, while he had been a guest of Aegeus in Attica. Minos avenged the death of his son with war, and in addition to the damage done to the Athenians by Minos' army, the gods also punished the lan ...
Frey_Harrison_Joseph
... Athens was created sometime between 7000-5000 BC. According to Greek mythology, Athens’ name originated from the competition between Athena and Poseidon. The competition decided which God or Goddess would be the protector of the polis. Obviously, by name alone, the people chose the goddess Athena as ...
... Athens was created sometime between 7000-5000 BC. According to Greek mythology, Athens’ name originated from the competition between Athena and Poseidon. The competition decided which God or Goddess would be the protector of the polis. Obviously, by name alone, the people chose the goddess Athena as ...
Lecture 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
... The heat from the fire in the skies dried the earth and shrank the seas. It's a rather fantastic scheme, but at least Anaximander sought natural explanations for the origin of the natural world. Thales and Anaximander were "matter" philosophers -- they believed that everything had its origin in a ma ...
... The heat from the fire in the skies dried the earth and shrank the seas. It's a rather fantastic scheme, but at least Anaximander sought natural explanations for the origin of the natural world. Thales and Anaximander were "matter" philosophers -- they believed that everything had its origin in a ma ...
Athenian democracy
Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica and is the first known democracy in the world. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most following the Athenian model, but none are as well documented as Athens.It was a system of direct democracy, in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills. Participation was not open to all residents: to vote one had to be an adult, male citizen, and the number of these ""varied between 30,000 and 50,000 out of a total population of around 250,000 to 300,000.""The longest-lasting democratic leader was Pericles. After his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolutions towards the end of the Peloponnesian War. It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides; and the most detailed accounts of the system are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system. Democracy was suppressed by the Macedonians in 322 BC. The Athenian institutions were later revived, but how close they were to a real democracy is debatable. Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), an aristocrat, and Ephialtes (462 BC) contributed to the development of Athenian democracy.