Pericles Biography
... Pericles promoted the arts, literature, and philosophy and gave free reign to some of the most inspired writers and thinkers of his time. During the Age of Pericles, Athens blossomed as a center of education, art, culture, and democracy. Artists and sculptors, playwrights and poets, architects and p ...
... Pericles promoted the arts, literature, and philosophy and gave free reign to some of the most inspired writers and thinkers of his time. During the Age of Pericles, Athens blossomed as a center of education, art, culture, and democracy. Artists and sculptors, playwrights and poets, architects and p ...
Lesson 1
... changed the rule for holding public office. Most public officials were unpaid before he came to power. This meant that only wealthy people could afford to serve in government in Athens. Pericles increased the number of public officials who were paid. Now even poor citizens could hold a public office ...
... changed the rule for holding public office. Most public officials were unpaid before he came to power. This meant that only wealthy people could afford to serve in government in Athens. Pericles increased the number of public officials who were paid. Now even poor citizens could hold a public office ...
AHIS3051 - University of Newcastle
... prosperity and crisis that offers a striking example to our own. It is a course which would also be of interest to students of philosophy, political science and history. The course will contribute to the BA course objectives of 1. an appreciation of the depth and breadth of knowledge in the humaniti ...
... prosperity and crisis that offers a striking example to our own. It is a course which would also be of interest to students of philosophy, political science and history. The course will contribute to the BA course objectives of 1. an appreciation of the depth and breadth of knowledge in the humaniti ...
Some Helpful Context to Socrates` Trial and Execution
... Critias was also former “disciple” of Socrates (as well an uncle of Plato)—were eager to implement a Spartan-like political system: that is, a system of central and militarized authority, where a few highly educated, elite rulers would have nearly total control over the city’s affairs. The Thirty co ...
... Critias was also former “disciple” of Socrates (as well an uncle of Plato)—were eager to implement a Spartan-like political system: that is, a system of central and militarized authority, where a few highly educated, elite rulers would have nearly total control over the city’s affairs. The Thirty co ...
DELIAN LEAGUE AND PELOPONNESIAN WAR
... didn’t help either that Sparta was primarily a land force and the Delian league would clearly involve many operations at sea. That left Athens. Unlike Sparta, Athens was happy to meddle in affairs far from home. At the same time, Athens had transformed itself into a major sea power and was therefor ...
... didn’t help either that Sparta was primarily a land force and the Delian league would clearly involve many operations at sea. That left Athens. Unlike Sparta, Athens was happy to meddle in affairs far from home. At the same time, Athens had transformed itself into a major sea power and was therefor ...
415-413 Be
... members of this league contributed ships plus crews or, if more agreeable to them, money, which was kept in the shrine of Apollo on the sacred island of Delos. Under Themistokles and a succession of gifted imperialists, the alliance grew rapidly through a mixture of voluntary adherence and a use of ...
... members of this league contributed ships plus crews or, if more agreeable to them, money, which was kept in the shrine of Apollo on the sacred island of Delos. Under Themistokles and a succession of gifted imperialists, the alliance grew rapidly through a mixture of voluntary adherence and a use of ...
Sea-Power in Greek Thought
... first who conceived the design of gaining the empireof the sea, 'unless it were Minos the Cnossian, and those (if there were any such) who had the mastery of the Aegean at an earlier time' (iii. 122). A period of thalassocracy is attributed also to Aegina (v. 83). In the alleged debate at Gelo's cou ...
... first who conceived the design of gaining the empireof the sea, 'unless it were Minos the Cnossian, and those (if there were any such) who had the mastery of the Aegean at an earlier time' (iii. 122). A period of thalassocracy is attributed also to Aegina (v. 83). In the alleged debate at Gelo's cou ...
THE MAIN RULES OF TRIBUTE PAYMENT IN MID 5th CENTURY
... Histories of emerge of the Athenian naval power in Aegean in 5th century B.C. have traditionally been offered as political and military narratives. They explain the origins of a naval alliance created in 478/7 B.C., the so-called Delian League (συμμαχία; symmachia – alliance, offensive and defensive ...
... Histories of emerge of the Athenian naval power in Aegean in 5th century B.C. have traditionally been offered as political and military narratives. They explain the origins of a naval alliance created in 478/7 B.C., the so-called Delian League (συμμαχία; symmachia – alliance, offensive and defensive ...
Life, Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora
... the Athenians were so eager to go to law, even though lawyers had not yet been invented, is less clear. Certainly some responsibility lies with Solon, the early 6th-century B.C. lawgiver ( I ) , who according to Aristotle (Ath. Pol. 9. I ) first made it possible “for anyone who wished (ho bouhenos) ...
... the Athenians were so eager to go to law, even though lawyers had not yet been invented, is less clear. Certainly some responsibility lies with Solon, the early 6th-century B.C. lawgiver ( I ) , who according to Aristotle (Ath. Pol. 9. I ) first made it possible “for anyone who wished (ho bouhenos) ...
"Quasi-Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties in
... correct, then there is (for example) no reason for liberals to worry about "democratic citizenship" per se or "the education of citizens." Rather the proper concern would seem to be with the liberal education of a few elite leaders capable of guaranteeing that a constitutional apparatus is properly ...
... correct, then there is (for example) no reason for liberals to worry about "democratic citizenship" per se or "the education of citizens." Rather the proper concern would seem to be with the liberal education of a few elite leaders capable of guaranteeing that a constitutional apparatus is properly ...
The Legal Regulation of Private Conduct at Athens: Two
... address their fellow citizens. Even in the fourth century during the so-called “period of the rhetores” when politicians tended to dominate discussion, Isokrates notes that sometimes the wisest speakers miss the point and an ordinary person, “deemed of little account and generally ignored”, comes up ...
... address their fellow citizens. Even in the fourth century during the so-called “period of the rhetores” when politicians tended to dominate discussion, Isokrates notes that sometimes the wisest speakers miss the point and an ordinary person, “deemed of little account and generally ignored”, comes up ...
The-Peloponessian-Warppt.LiamMacS
... "Justice and honesty will be the first topics of our speech, especially as we are asking for alliance;.... ...as long as the Athenians led us fairly we followed them loyally; but when we saw them relax their hostility to the Mede, to try to compass the subjection of the allies, then our apprehension ...
... "Justice and honesty will be the first topics of our speech, especially as we are asking for alliance;.... ...as long as the Athenians led us fairly we followed them loyally; but when we saw them relax their hostility to the Mede, to try to compass the subjection of the allies, then our apprehension ...
On Thucydides` History
... was” (3.36). Though trireme was already on its way to Mytilene, the Athenians changed their minds. Cleon, then exclaims in utter frustration “this is the worst thing—to pass measures and then not to abide by them” (3.37) and that the Athenians are “regular speech-goers . . . more like an audience si ...
... was” (3.36). Though trireme was already on its way to Mytilene, the Athenians changed their minds. Cleon, then exclaims in utter frustration “this is the worst thing—to pass measures and then not to abide by them” (3.37) and that the Athenians are “regular speech-goers . . . more like an audience si ...
a spear butt from the lesbians - The American School of Classical
... 8 Pausanias, I. 15. 4. B 262, a bronze shield taken from the Spartans at Pylos in 425/4 B.C., found in a cistern (D-E 8-9: 1) on Kolonos Agoraios: T. L. Shear, Hesperia 6, 1937, pp. 346-348. Since the cistern went out of use and was filled in the early 3rd centuny B.C., this particular shield could ...
... 8 Pausanias, I. 15. 4. B 262, a bronze shield taken from the Spartans at Pylos in 425/4 B.C., found in a cistern (D-E 8-9: 1) on Kolonos Agoraios: T. L. Shear, Hesperia 6, 1937, pp. 346-348. Since the cistern went out of use and was filled in the early 3rd centuny B.C., this particular shield could ...
Pericles and Athenian Imperialism
... evidence. A number of decrees testifying to the growing imperialism of Athens have been found, but it has not been possible to date them precisely, on account of their lamentable state of preservation. While most epigraphists place the date of their engraving between 450 and 440, some specialists de ...
... evidence. A number of decrees testifying to the growing imperialism of Athens have been found, but it has not been possible to date them precisely, on account of their lamentable state of preservation. While most epigraphists place the date of their engraving between 450 and 440, some specialists de ...
AS Exam Review
... Pericles Democracy 2) - Pericles was the ruler of Athens during the Golden age. He had created the worlds greatest piece of architecture, the Parthenon. The Parthenon was built with the money from the Delian league and was built in honor of Athena. During the Peloponnesian war, the state of Athens ...
... Pericles Democracy 2) - Pericles was the ruler of Athens during the Golden age. He had created the worlds greatest piece of architecture, the Parthenon. The Parthenon was built with the money from the Delian league and was built in honor of Athena. During the Peloponnesian war, the state of Athens ...
5: Art and Architecture
... yardsticks against which the art of other cultures and periods has been measured. Today we often take their consequence, both aesthetic and political, for granted.1 The significance of ancient objects to those who made, commissioned, and saw them, however, is not always easy to pin down. Plutarch, fo ...
... yardsticks against which the art of other cultures and periods has been measured. Today we often take their consequence, both aesthetic and political, for granted.1 The significance of ancient objects to those who made, commissioned, and saw them, however, is not always easy to pin down. Plutarch, fo ...
Bronwen WICKKISER Plague, Politics, and the Peloponnesian War
... The importation of Asklepios-cult to Athens from Epidauros in 420/19 BC has long been explained as the result of the plague that devastated Athens ten years earlier. This explanation, however, is problematic for a number of reasons including the ten-year lag between cause and effect and the absence ...
... The importation of Asklepios-cult to Athens from Epidauros in 420/19 BC has long been explained as the result of the plague that devastated Athens ten years earlier. This explanation, however, is problematic for a number of reasons including the ten-year lag between cause and effect and the absence ...
19 page pdf - The Stoa Consortium
... assault or even homicide, they frequently arose from disputes between individuals or groups of individuals over property or other financial interests. While these suits required jurors to evaluate claims and counterclaims concerning concrete matters, they also invited reflection on social relationsh ...
... assault or even homicide, they frequently arose from disputes between individuals or groups of individuals over property or other financial interests. While these suits required jurors to evaluate claims and counterclaims concerning concrete matters, they also invited reflection on social relationsh ...
Pericles
... (represented by all male citizens) grew increasingly powerful. For the first time since the concept of democracy was introduced by Solon more than a century before, the term finally had true substance behind it. Of course, in today's viewpoint, Pericles' society was a far cry from a real democratic ...
... (represented by all male citizens) grew increasingly powerful. For the first time since the concept of democracy was introduced by Solon more than a century before, the term finally had true substance behind it. Of course, in today's viewpoint, Pericles' society was a far cry from a real democratic ...
COMPELLENCE
... resistance is futile – that the Persians made to them (in Herodotus’s account), while the Melians parrott back the rebuttals they Athenians made to the Persians. The deeper argument here, which first surfaces in the Corcyraean-Corinthian debate in Book I, pertains to the most efficacious strategies ...
... resistance is futile – that the Persians made to them (in Herodotus’s account), while the Melians parrott back the rebuttals they Athenians made to the Persians. The deeper argument here, which first surfaces in the Corcyraean-Corinthian debate in Book I, pertains to the most efficacious strategies ...
Second Year of the War - The Plague of Athens
... was done by some of the neglected sick, who plunged into the rain-tanks in their agonies of unquenchable thirst; though it made no difference whether they drank little or much. Besides this, the miserable feeling of not being able to rest or sleep never ceased to torment them. The body meanwhile di ...
... was done by some of the neglected sick, who plunged into the rain-tanks in their agonies of unquenchable thirst; though it made no difference whether they drank little or much. Besides this, the miserable feeling of not being able to rest or sleep never ceased to torment them. The body meanwhile di ...
essay on delian league
... The Ionians sought a powerful ally like Athens for protection from the Persians. At the beginning the Delian League was to be beneficial for both Athens and her allies, however because of radical democracy, the leadership of Aristides, Cimon and in particular Pericles and his aggressive imperial pol ...
... The Ionians sought a powerful ally like Athens for protection from the Persians. At the beginning the Delian League was to be beneficial for both Athens and her allies, however because of radical democracy, the leadership of Aristides, Cimon and in particular Pericles and his aggressive imperial pol ...
Pericles and the challenge of democratic leadership (book
... propose a fresher look at Pericles as a statesman in the “model” regime of classical, Athenian direct democracy. The name of Pericles conjures up the spirit of classical Athenian democracy; but it also reminds us of the beginning of the great Peloponnesian War that resulted in the demise of Athens. ...
... propose a fresher look at Pericles as a statesman in the “model” regime of classical, Athenian direct democracy. The name of Pericles conjures up the spirit of classical Athenian democracy; but it also reminds us of the beginning of the great Peloponnesian War that resulted in the demise of Athens. ...
THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND THE MAIN GOALS OF
... Works on the Athenian empire, in the sense in which scholars have followed and applied various methods, producing descriptive accounts, with the general synthesis as the master trope. The core questions about the transformation of the Delian League into an Athenian empire, the veracity of Thucydides ...
... Works on the Athenian empire, in the sense in which scholars have followed and applied various methods, producing descriptive accounts, with the general synthesis as the master trope. The core questions about the transformation of the Delian League into an Athenian empire, the veracity of Thucydides ...