CLEISTHENES BRINGS DEMOCRACY TO ATHENS
... to banish Cleisthenes' most powerful allies. Altogether over 700 households were brutally cast out of the city, including the whole of Cleisthenes' clan, the Alcmaeonids. Calling them 'The Accursed', the justification used by Isagoras and his allies was based on an ancient misdeed the clan had been ...
... to banish Cleisthenes' most powerful allies. Altogether over 700 households were brutally cast out of the city, including the whole of Cleisthenes' clan, the Alcmaeonids. Calling them 'The Accursed', the justification used by Isagoras and his allies was based on an ancient misdeed the clan had been ...
ancient agora of athens
... The Ancient Agora of Classical Athens is the best-known example of an ancient Greek «agora», located to the northwest of the Acropolis. The agora was the center of political and public life in Athens. It was a large open area surrounded by buildings of various functions. The agora was utilized for c ...
... The Ancient Agora of Classical Athens is the best-known example of an ancient Greek «agora», located to the northwest of the Acropolis. The agora was the center of political and public life in Athens. It was a large open area surrounded by buildings of various functions. The agora was utilized for c ...
Ancient Greece Paper 2 Final Draft
... military force powerful enough to stop another Persian invasion. 21 The League was created with the goals of liberating the Ionian Greeks from Persian control and keeping the islands in the Aegean safe from another Persian attack. The Delian League banded together and created a strong navy under the ...
... military force powerful enough to stop another Persian invasion. 21 The League was created with the goals of liberating the Ionian Greeks from Persian control and keeping the islands in the Aegean safe from another Persian attack. The Delian League banded together and created a strong navy under the ...
EQ: How did the people of Athens create a democracy?
... • Every citizen had the right to speak his opinion. • After the speeches were over, the assembly voted. Voting was usually done by a show of hands, but EQ: How did the people of Athens create a democracy? ...
... • Every citizen had the right to speak his opinion. • After the speeches were over, the assembly voted. Voting was usually done by a show of hands, but EQ: How did the people of Athens create a democracy? ...
the concept of “impure birth” in 5th century
... According to this reading, every foreigner is as the foreigner who is prohibited by Torah law, because every foreign people exhibits customs comparable in some way to the customs of the proscribed nations. The Philistine from Ashdod is as the Ammonite and Moabite (cf. Neh 13:23–25). Moreover, since ...
... According to this reading, every foreigner is as the foreigner who is prohibited by Torah law, because every foreign people exhibits customs comparable in some way to the customs of the proscribed nations. The Philistine from Ashdod is as the Ammonite and Moabite (cf. Neh 13:23–25). Moreover, since ...
tHe AtHeniAn AGORA
... the United States often display magnificent objects with little or no information as to where they were found and what else was found with them. What sets the Agora project and museum apart from most collections is the relationship of the objects to the ...
... the United States often display magnificent objects with little or no information as to where they were found and what else was found with them. What sets the Agora project and museum apart from most collections is the relationship of the objects to the ...
Lessons from Thucydides on Vietnam and Iraq
... scholars for his scientific approach to recoding history as seen in his seminal work, A History of the Peloponnesian War, which is frequently required reading for students of politics and anyone interested in democracy or war.1 In reading the History of the Peloponnesian War, many parallels can be d ...
... scholars for his scientific approach to recoding history as seen in his seminal work, A History of the Peloponnesian War, which is frequently required reading for students of politics and anyone interested in democracy or war.1 In reading the History of the Peloponnesian War, many parallels can be d ...
Pericles` Tribute to Athens and Her Fallen
... Those too old, he tells to “let your hearts be lifted up at the thought of the fair fame of the dead” (ib.). To sons and brothers of the dead, he sympathizes, for “everyone always speaks well of the dead,” and thus it is difficult to hope to ever measure up to them. And finally, to the women he stat ...
... Those too old, he tells to “let your hearts be lifted up at the thought of the fair fame of the dead” (ib.). To sons and brothers of the dead, he sympathizes, for “everyone always speaks well of the dead,” and thus it is difficult to hope to ever measure up to them. And finally, to the women he stat ...
Ancient Studies History -- Unit 2 -
... In the introduction to her documentary on “The Spartans,” historian Bettany Hughes declares, “I need to confess that I’m particularly attracted to the Spartans because of their women.” She adds, “I would just love to spend one day as a Spartan girl” (Hughes, ASG 48). As you consider all that you kno ...
... In the introduction to her documentary on “The Spartans,” historian Bettany Hughes declares, “I need to confess that I’m particularly attracted to the Spartans because of their women.” She adds, “I would just love to spend one day as a Spartan girl” (Hughes, ASG 48). As you consider all that you kno ...
Volumes published (2006)
... from the members for the purpose of campaigning against the Persians. Alliance with Athens, and the contributions it implied, was, at first, voluntary. The treasury for these contributions was housed on the Aegean island of Delos, and hence this alliance is often called in modern scholarship ‘The De ...
... from the members for the purpose of campaigning against the Persians. Alliance with Athens, and the contributions it implied, was, at first, voluntary. The treasury for these contributions was housed on the Aegean island of Delos, and hence this alliance is often called in modern scholarship ‘The De ...
Question paper - Unit F391/01 - Greek history from original
... (c) ‘A lifelong reward for his merits’ (line 4). On the basis of this passage and other sources you have studied, discuss to what extent the Spartan state rewarded merit. ...
... (c) ‘A lifelong reward for his merits’ (line 4). On the basis of this passage and other sources you have studied, discuss to what extent the Spartan state rewarded merit. ...
Athenian Religion and The Peloponnesian War - Beck-Shop
... thenian ‘religion’ is notoriously difficult to isolate or define, because it did not exist as a discrete cultural practice, but rather as a range of practices that were embedded in all aspects of life, both public and private. It is possible to get around this difficulty by referring to Athenian ‘relig ...
... thenian ‘religion’ is notoriously difficult to isolate or define, because it did not exist as a discrete cultural practice, but rather as a range of practices that were embedded in all aspects of life, both public and private. It is possible to get around this difficulty by referring to Athenian ‘relig ...
Athenian Religion and The Peloponnesian War - Assets
... thenian ‘religion’ is notoriously difficult to isolate or define, because it did not exist as a discrete cultural practice, but rather as a range of practices that were embedded in all aspects of life, both public and private. It is possible to get around this difficulty by referring to Athenian ‘relig ...
... thenian ‘religion’ is notoriously difficult to isolate or define, because it did not exist as a discrete cultural practice, but rather as a range of practices that were embedded in all aspects of life, both public and private. It is possible to get around this difficulty by referring to Athenian ‘relig ...
Week 8: The Athenian Empire
... 451 Cimon returns from ostracism. Pericles introduces a law limiting citizenship to those who have two citizen parents. Athens concludes a Five Years’ Peace with Sparta. Sparta and Argos conclude a Thirty Years’ Peace or non-aggression pact. Famine occurs in Attica. 451-446 Five Years’ Truce betwee ...
... 451 Cimon returns from ostracism. Pericles introduces a law limiting citizenship to those who have two citizen parents. Athens concludes a Five Years’ Peace with Sparta. Sparta and Argos conclude a Thirty Years’ Peace or non-aggression pact. Famine occurs in Attica. 451-446 Five Years’ Truce betwee ...
The Age of Pericles
... • Athenian women had no political rights and could not own property. • Aspasia was a well-educated woman who influenced Plato and Pericles. • Although she could not vote or hold office, she was influential in politics. ...
... • Athenian women had no political rights and could not own property. • Aspasia was a well-educated woman who influenced Plato and Pericles. • Although she could not vote or hold office, she was influential in politics. ...
Chronology of Athenian Imperialism
... no personal failure in an enterprise could make them consent to deprive their country of their valor, but they laid it at her feet as the most glorious contribution that they could offer.” ...
... no personal failure in an enterprise could make them consent to deprive their country of their valor, but they laid it at her feet as the most glorious contribution that they could offer.” ...
entry 11 the golden age of greece
... Athens. The Persian wars were over. Athens had beaten a giant, the first world superpower, and citizens felt confident that they could do anything. They had survived the Persian’s attacks and rebuilt their homes in Athens. As Athens grew in power, Athens began to demand the protection tax of the Del ...
... Athens. The Persian wars were over. Athens had beaten a giant, the first world superpower, and citizens felt confident that they could do anything. They had survived the Persian’s attacks and rebuilt their homes in Athens. As Athens grew in power, Athens began to demand the protection tax of the Del ...
Ch. 4 Section 4- The Age of Pericles
... The jewel in the crown of Pericles' Building Project is certainly the Parthenon, the most glorious - and enduring - of all Pericles' imperishable monuments to Athens' greatness. The Parthenon is dedicated to Athena Parthenos, the Virgin Goddess of war, wisdom and weaving, and patron goddess of the c ...
... The jewel in the crown of Pericles' Building Project is certainly the Parthenon, the most glorious - and enduring - of all Pericles' imperishable monuments to Athens' greatness. The Parthenon is dedicated to Athena Parthenos, the Virgin Goddess of war, wisdom and weaving, and patron goddess of the c ...
The Melian Dialogue
... the illimitable stream of events into some intelligible form which it can hold before itself and take in at one survey….The man whose reason has thrown over myth and abjured religion, and who yet is born too soon to find any resting-place for his thought provided by science and philosophy, may set h ...
... the illimitable stream of events into some intelligible form which it can hold before itself and take in at one survey….The man whose reason has thrown over myth and abjured religion, and who yet is born too soon to find any resting-place for his thought provided by science and philosophy, may set h ...
Hegemonic Rivalry - Stanford University
... the strategic views of the architects who planned the walls nor those of the citizens who approved the plans in the Athenian assembly are known. It may be the case that the original motivation behind wall building was aggressive: to create a secure bastion that would allow Athens to launch attacks w ...
... the strategic views of the architects who planned the walls nor those of the citizens who approved the plans in the Athenian assembly are known. It may be the case that the original motivation behind wall building was aggressive: to create a secure bastion that would allow Athens to launch attacks w ...
A-level Classical Civilisation Mark scheme Unit 02D
... What do the Athenians’ actions described in the passage suggest about their attitude to the Delian League in this period? Discussion might include: Siege of Eion: ‘occupied by Persians’ indicates that the Athenians had in mind the original aims, i.e. to hit back at Persia and those who supported her ...
... What do the Athenians’ actions described in the passage suggest about their attitude to the Delian League in this period? Discussion might include: Siege of Eion: ‘occupied by Persians’ indicates that the Athenians had in mind the original aims, i.e. to hit back at Persia and those who supported her ...
The Spartans and Women in Ancient Greece
... Athenian Government • Athens’ government frequently changed. The move towards democracy started with Solon • He was an aristocrat who introduced democratic principles to Athenian government • His laws gave all free adult males the right to participate in the assembly • The assembly voted on new leg ...
... Athenian Government • Athens’ government frequently changed. The move towards democracy started with Solon • He was an aristocrat who introduced democratic principles to Athenian government • His laws gave all free adult males the right to participate in the assembly • The assembly voted on new leg ...
The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC
... The Battle of Marathon, September490 B.C. Persians land in Attica but are repulsed by an Athenian army under Mitiades in the Vrana Valley. re-embark and advance by sea the Athenians could fall on their rear when they attempted to withdraw. The Persians were left with only two options: fight or wait ...
... The Battle of Marathon, September490 B.C. Persians land in Attica but are repulsed by an Athenian army under Mitiades in the Vrana Valley. re-embark and advance by sea the Athenians could fall on their rear when they attempted to withdraw. The Persians were left with only two options: fight or wait ...
THE ALLEGED FAILURE OF ATHENS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY
... but to give orders to others:4 archein gave way to what could be seen by comparison as douleuein. In this paper I want to focus on the reasons for that change. A quarter of a century ago G.L. Cawkwell wrote “Notes on the Failure of the Second Athenian Confederacy”, concluding that at first the Second ...
... but to give orders to others:4 archein gave way to what could be seen by comparison as douleuein. In this paper I want to focus on the reasons for that change. A quarter of a century ago G.L. Cawkwell wrote “Notes on the Failure of the Second Athenian Confederacy”, concluding that at first the Second ...
Sample Historical Text Analysis: Pericles`s Funeral Oration
... the usage of ethos (or his credibility as a general), he specifically mentioned key evidence to assert Athena’s military prowess. Pericles stated that “At Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger,” where he showed that even with enemies using fu ...
... the usage of ethos (or his credibility as a general), he specifically mentioned key evidence to assert Athena’s military prowess. Pericles stated that “At Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger,” where he showed that even with enemies using fu ...