said
... may retain an irreducible core of inviolable human dignity no matter what we suffer. For moral saints, like Socrates, that may be enough. But for most of us, dignity also involves the regard in which we are held by others. Having or not having dignity is manifest in how we behave toward others, and ...
... may retain an irreducible core of inviolable human dignity no matter what we suffer. For moral saints, like Socrates, that may be enough. But for most of us, dignity also involves the regard in which we are held by others. Having or not having dignity is manifest in how we behave toward others, and ...
IF Stone Breaks the Socrates Story
... This obsession with the trial of Socrates is not mine alone. Scholars and historians have been puzzled by it for centuries, and still are. What’s the puzzle? The Athens of Socrates’s time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet that city put So ...
... This obsession with the trial of Socrates is not mine alone. Scholars and historians have been puzzled by it for centuries, and still are. What’s the puzzle? The Athens of Socrates’s time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet that city put So ...
the failure of Athenian democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants
... in power, and the chief leaders of the popular party were dead or imprisoned, the people of Athens were able to take back their city and restore the earlier form of government. This topic is especially relevant to the world in which many of us live today; that is, a world we consider to be equal and ...
... in power, and the chief leaders of the popular party were dead or imprisoned, the people of Athens were able to take back their city and restore the earlier form of government. This topic is especially relevant to the world in which many of us live today; that is, a world we consider to be equal and ...
Athenian Political Art from the Fifth and Fourth Centuries : Images of
... personification of Boule (the Athenian Council) is limited to one labelled example, a relief from the second quarter of the fourth century, on which she joins Athena, and probably Demos, to crown an honorand. Carol Lawton has rightly noted that Boule would not appear without Demos, as the Council c ...
... personification of Boule (the Athenian Council) is limited to one labelled example, a relief from the second quarter of the fourth century, on which she joins Athena, and probably Demos, to crown an honorand. Carol Lawton has rightly noted that Boule would not appear without Demos, as the Council c ...
Coping with a new Situation - Utrecht University Repository
... more or less fixed in the way we have it’.11 It is difficult to tell if we can rely on the transmitted poetry being Solon’s own words.12 This counts for most of the ancient written sources. I am aware of such errors. However, Solon’s work is needed as it provides a glimpse on his own laws. These law ...
... more or less fixed in the way we have it’.11 It is difficult to tell if we can rely on the transmitted poetry being Solon’s own words.12 This counts for most of the ancient written sources. I am aware of such errors. However, Solon’s work is needed as it provides a glimpse on his own laws. These law ...
THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ASYMMETRIES
... Ahura Mazda on earth and had to provide law and order. Politically people in the Persian Empire were subjects, whereas Greeks were citizens, even in oligarchic states. The first encounter took place in September 490 BC in the small plain of Marathon, in the northern part of Attica. Since the Greek f ...
... Ahura Mazda on earth and had to provide law and order. Politically people in the Persian Empire were subjects, whereas Greeks were citizens, even in oligarchic states. The first encounter took place in September 490 BC in the small plain of Marathon, in the northern part of Attica. Since the Greek f ...
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
... would expect the rules concerning foreigners to be relatively unresponsive to their interests. This in fact appears to be the case: a notable case in point is the Periclean citizenship law of 451/0 forbidding non-Athenians to marry Athenians. Much contemporary scholarly work on Athenian hostility or ...
... would expect the rules concerning foreigners to be relatively unresponsive to their interests. This in fact appears to be the case: a notable case in point is the Periclean citizenship law of 451/0 forbidding non-Athenians to marry Athenians. Much contemporary scholarly work on Athenian hostility or ...
lnrt /on ltny an I us tng /tÇn rout"nt
... 447, at the battle of Koronea, Athens had lost its land empire and had to be content with developing its maritime empire. In 447 BC Athens went to war with Sparta at Koronea in Boeotia. The Athenians were defeated and their leader, Tolmides, was killed. As a result of ...
... 447, at the battle of Koronea, Athens had lost its land empire and had to be content with developing its maritime empire. In 447 BC Athens went to war with Sparta at Koronea in Boeotia. The Athenians were defeated and their leader, Tolmides, was killed. As a result of ...
S Cimon, son of Miltiades (father) and Hegesipyle (mother
... while Cimon was away. Plutarch suggests this, in very general terms, in his biography of Pericles. Once Aristides was dead, Plutarch says, and emistocles was banished and Cimon was generally absent on campaigns, “Pericles decided to devote himself to the people, espousing the cause of the poor and ...
... while Cimon was away. Plutarch suggests this, in very general terms, in his biography of Pericles. Once Aristides was dead, Plutarch says, and emistocles was banished and Cimon was generally absent on campaigns, “Pericles decided to devote himself to the people, espousing the cause of the poor and ...
Honors Thesis - Emory University
... government is under threat. Rapid technological advancement combined with globalization is remaking the way society functions. Considering that modern liberal democracy was itself born out of the upheavals of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, it would not be unsurprising if the current pe ...
... government is under threat. Rapid technological advancement combined with globalization is remaking the way society functions. Considering that modern liberal democracy was itself born out of the upheavals of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, it would not be unsurprising if the current pe ...
For over 20 years, at Athens` height, the city was dominated by the
... late 20s, sponsored a major dramatic production for the festival of Dionysus. As well as providing entertainment for the whole city, this annual event was also an opportunity for sponsors to bring their name to wider public attention. Pericles was lucky enough to be assigned to sponsor Aeschylus, th ...
... late 20s, sponsored a major dramatic production for the festival of Dionysus. As well as providing entertainment for the whole city, this annual event was also an opportunity for sponsors to bring their name to wider public attention. Pericles was lucky enough to be assigned to sponsor Aeschylus, th ...
Pericles
... Pericles was an influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age, specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, descending from the Alcmaeonidae family. The period from 461 BC to 379 BC is sometimes known as "The Age of Pericles". He was responsible for a great m ...
... Pericles was an influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age, specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, descending from the Alcmaeonidae family. The period from 461 BC to 379 BC is sometimes known as "The Age of Pericles". He was responsible for a great m ...
Misthos for Magistrates in Fourth
... finance their scheme.18 It is only Sokrates’ refusal to escape that prevented his friends from carrying out their plan. Sokrates was in chains in his cell (Phd. 59E), and for the plan to succeed the Eleven and their staff must have been persuaded to turn a blind eye to Sokrates’ escape from the pris ...
... finance their scheme.18 It is only Sokrates’ refusal to escape that prevented his friends from carrying out their plan. Sokrates was in chains in his cell (Phd. 59E), and for the plan to succeed the Eleven and their staff must have been persuaded to turn a blind eye to Sokrates’ escape from the pris ...
Thucydides` Criticism of Democratic Knowledge
... on certain knowledge, and on the assumption that opinion could be translated into practical reality through democratic political process. The enactment formula of the Athenian Assembly, EOO~E T0 o~Jl£p-"it appeared right to the citizenry"-defines the relationship between democratic knowledge and pol ...
... on certain knowledge, and on the assumption that opinion could be translated into practical reality through democratic political process. The enactment formula of the Athenian Assembly, EOO~E T0 o~Jl£p-"it appeared right to the citizenry"-defines the relationship between democratic knowledge and pol ...
Contents - Figipedia
... manpower and to create a more flexible system that allowed the Spartans to send smaller detachments on campaign or to garrisons outside their homeland.[18] According to Xenophon, the basic Spartan unit remained the enōmotia, with 36 men in three files of twelve under an enōmotarches.[19] Two enōmoti ...
... manpower and to create a more flexible system that allowed the Spartans to send smaller detachments on campaign or to garrisons outside their homeland.[18] According to Xenophon, the basic Spartan unit remained the enōmotia, with 36 men in three files of twelve under an enōmotarches.[19] Two enōmoti ...
English - SciELO México
... confrontation arrived. As Thucydides said (1972: 49) in his book History of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC-404 BC): “What made this war inevitable was the growing power of Athens and the fear that such power produced in Sparta”. It should be noted that Isocrates was born shortly before this war broke ...
... confrontation arrived. As Thucydides said (1972: 49) in his book History of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC-404 BC): “What made this war inevitable was the growing power of Athens and the fear that such power produced in Sparta”. It should be noted that Isocrates was born shortly before this war broke ...
Background - courtneyljohnson
... Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching? The puzzle is all the greater because Socrates had taught--without molestation--all of his a ...
... Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching? The puzzle is all the greater because Socrates had taught--without molestation--all of his a ...
Apophasis (Special Investigations)
... impersonal judgement and a more personal justice. Dinarchus says this explicitly. In his speech against Demosthenes, he explains why, in other cases, the jury overrode the findings of the Areopagus: “ere is an explanation for this which you will easily follow. e council of the Areopagus, gentlemen ...
... impersonal judgement and a more personal justice. Dinarchus says this explicitly. In his speech against Demosthenes, he explains why, in other cases, the jury overrode the findings of the Areopagus: “ere is an explanation for this which you will easily follow. e council of the Areopagus, gentlemen ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
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... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
Herodotus, Politics and Athenian Democracy
... that Athens was in danger of following the same path as the Persians (Forsdyke 2007, 231). Following the Persian defeat, Herodotus tells of malicious and cruel acts performed by several Athenian leaders. For instance, the Athenian army inflicts a terrible punishment upon Artaÿctes: they crucify him ...
... that Athens was in danger of following the same path as the Persians (Forsdyke 2007, 231). Following the Persian defeat, Herodotus tells of malicious and cruel acts performed by several Athenian leaders. For instance, the Athenian army inflicts a terrible punishment upon Artaÿctes: they crucify him ...
Socrates
... Soc: “You know that I am not going to bring them in. Yes, I’ve got children and a wife, but I am not going to bring them in. That has nothing to do with the trial whatsoever. It is for you to make your decision. But I tell you this, I will ...
... Soc: “You know that I am not going to bring them in. Yes, I’ve got children and a wife, but I am not going to bring them in. That has nothing to do with the trial whatsoever. It is for you to make your decision. But I tell you this, I will ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
Alcmaeonidae - hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca
... aristocrat – Pisistratus. Pisistratus had gained popularity after defeating the Megarans in 565 BCE – thus freeing Athens of a trade blockage. ...
... aristocrat – Pisistratus. Pisistratus had gained popularity after defeating the Megarans in 565 BCE – thus freeing Athens of a trade blockage. ...
Direct democracy
Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of modern Western-style democracies, which are indirect democracies.