Thucydides and Political Order
... course of the Peloponnesian War. However, whereas Baltrusch is convinced that Thucydides believed that the Athenians could have, and should have acted differently, Ned Lebow connects the reasons for such Athenian contempt to the structural forces of modernization. In his view, the rapid growth of At ...
... course of the Peloponnesian War. However, whereas Baltrusch is convinced that Thucydides believed that the Athenians could have, and should have acted differently, Ned Lebow connects the reasons for such Athenian contempt to the structural forces of modernization. In his view, the rapid growth of At ...
Athens 403: State of Athenian Finances
... and overseas possessions. The reign of the Thirty and the Phyle Campaign caused yet further disruptions of trade and agriculture. All told, guaranteed revenues for the state have been cut by nearly 98%, to just over 100 talents. Expenses associated with maintaining the Empire, in particular military ...
... and overseas possessions. The reign of the Thirty and the Phyle Campaign caused yet further disruptions of trade and agriculture. All told, guaranteed revenues for the state have been cut by nearly 98%, to just over 100 talents. Expenses associated with maintaining the Empire, in particular military ...
World Literature
... The Challenge of Persia As the Greek city-states developed, they came into conflict with the vast and powerful Persian Empire to the east. In 490 b.c., an invading Persian force landed on the Plain of Marathon, only 26 miles from Athens. Badly outnumbered, the Athenians decisively defeated the Persi ...
... The Challenge of Persia As the Greek city-states developed, they came into conflict with the vast and powerful Persian Empire to the east. In 490 b.c., an invading Persian force landed on the Plain of Marathon, only 26 miles from Athens. Badly outnumbered, the Athenians decisively defeated the Persi ...
Socrates (470 BC) - pakclassicsschol
... Most Greeks would have believed in life after death, but as something to dread, rather than calmly accept as Socrates did In The Odyssey, Odysseus visits the Underworld – the dead are shades, mere shadows of their former selves, a strange half-way condition between life and death – the hero Achi ...
... Most Greeks would have believed in life after death, but as something to dread, rather than calmly accept as Socrates did In The Odyssey, Odysseus visits the Underworld – the dead are shades, mere shadows of their former selves, a strange half-way condition between life and death – the hero Achi ...
The Plague of Athens: Epidemiology and
... Health and disease have played an important part in human religion and history. Although our conquest of disease has extended the modern lifespan to 78 years in the Western world versus 25 to 35 years in the ancient world, we are still frightened by and concerned with plagues. In the modern world, e ...
... Health and disease have played an important part in human religion and history. Although our conquest of disease has extended the modern lifespan to 78 years in the Western world versus 25 to 35 years in the ancient world, we are still frightened by and concerned with plagues. In the modern world, e ...
Chapter 9 – Athens (Athena, Goddess of Wisdom)
... right on top of the ancient city. In ancient times the city was called Athena, after the goddess Athena, who was the goddess of wisdom. According to the legend, Athena was born from the head of her father, Zeus. Zeus had a terrible headache, and he asked Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and metall ...
... right on top of the ancient city. In ancient times the city was called Athena, after the goddess Athena, who was the goddess of wisdom. According to the legend, Athena was born from the head of her father, Zeus. Zeus had a terrible headache, and he asked Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and metall ...
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
... services) from non-Athenian imperial subjects by the use of or the threat force.9 PsXenophon (the “Old Oligarch”), Thucydides, and Aristophanes make it eminently clear that the relationship between Athens’ coercive capacity and Athenian public and private interests was well understood by fifth-centu ...
... services) from non-Athenian imperial subjects by the use of or the threat force.9 PsXenophon (the “Old Oligarch”), Thucydides, and Aristophanes make it eminently clear that the relationship between Athens’ coercive capacity and Athenian public and private interests was well understood by fifth-centu ...
Solon and the Early Athenian Government Athens may be
... in the hands of a few powerful families. Over time, the term of office of an archon was reduced to one year, but their power remained fixed. Most ancient Greek cities had a semi-historical lawgiver—a person from the past who may have been real, mythological, or some combination—to whom they attribut ...
... in the hands of a few powerful families. Over time, the term of office of an archon was reduced to one year, but their power remained fixed. Most ancient Greek cities had a semi-historical lawgiver—a person from the past who may have been real, mythological, or some combination—to whom they attribut ...
mosaics of grecian history
... We may also mention, in this connection, the valuable and scholarly work of the German professor, Ernst Curtius (1857-’67), in five volumes, translated by A. Ward (1871-’74). His sympathies are monarchical, and his views more nearly accord with those of Mitford and Thirlwall than with those of Grote ...
... We may also mention, in this connection, the valuable and scholarly work of the German professor, Ernst Curtius (1857-’67), in five volumes, translated by A. Ward (1871-’74). His sympathies are monarchical, and his views more nearly accord with those of Mitford and Thirlwall than with those of Grote ...
Major Works Data Sheet
... Plot summary: Antigone's Twisted Family Tree:A brave and proud young woman named Antigone is the product of a really messed up family.Her father, Oedipus, was the King of Thebes. He unknowingly murdered his father and married his own mother, Queen Jocasta. With his wife/mother, Oedipus had two daugh ...
... Plot summary: Antigone's Twisted Family Tree:A brave and proud young woman named Antigone is the product of a really messed up family.Her father, Oedipus, was the King of Thebes. He unknowingly murdered his father and married his own mother, Queen Jocasta. With his wife/mother, Oedipus had two daugh ...
Greek history - Conflict and culture - Specimen
... • Sustained control of appropriate form and register; • Legible, fluent and technically very accurate writing. • Careful and thorough analysis leading to generally sound conclusions; • Balanced evaluation based on clear engagement with sources/task; • Argument well structured and developed; technica ...
... • Sustained control of appropriate form and register; • Legible, fluent and technically very accurate writing. • Careful and thorough analysis leading to generally sound conclusions; • Balanced evaluation based on clear engagement with sources/task; • Argument well structured and developed; technica ...
The First Illyrian War
... serve to place my study of the First Illyrian War within a greater scholarly debate. Following this, I will outline the nature and extent of the literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence relating to the First Illyrian War and some of its shortcomings. Polybius wrote that this conflict was “a ...
... serve to place my study of the First Illyrian War within a greater scholarly debate. Following this, I will outline the nature and extent of the literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence relating to the First Illyrian War and some of its shortcomings. Polybius wrote that this conflict was “a ...
The Age of Pericles
... • Aspasia was a well-educated woman who influenced Plato and Pericles. • Although she could not vote or hold office, she was influential in politics. ...
... • Aspasia was a well-educated woman who influenced Plato and Pericles. • Although she could not vote or hold office, she was influential in politics. ...
Milestone Documents in World History Funeral Oration of Pericles
... who punished Pericles with a large fine. He nevertheless won reelection as general in 429 BCE, only to succumb to disease later that year. Pericles’ Funeral Oration, given during the first year of hostilities, is related within Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War, which details a year-by-ye ...
... who punished Pericles with a large fine. He nevertheless won reelection as general in 429 BCE, only to succumb to disease later that year. Pericles’ Funeral Oration, given during the first year of hostilities, is related within Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War, which details a year-by-ye ...
Pericles
... Pericles was educated to a very high standard in the ways of music, poetry and gymnastics. He was under the influence of leading thinkers at the time, people from outside of Athens such as Anaxagoras, who is regarded as the most important influence on Pericles (Plutarch). He had access to these peop ...
... Pericles was educated to a very high standard in the ways of music, poetry and gymnastics. He was under the influence of leading thinkers at the time, people from outside of Athens such as Anaxagoras, who is regarded as the most important influence on Pericles (Plutarch). He had access to these peop ...
saved - PDFbooks.co.za
... Preface This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long expla ...
... Preface This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long expla ...
Why Plato Wrote - Thedivineconspiracy.org
... dialogues representing conversations among various casts of characters. Very often, but not always, Socrates played the lead role. Socrates’ opinions (at least as represented by Plato) are therefore those one most immediately takes from any given Platonic dialogue as the main ideas. This has led to ...
... dialogues representing conversations among various casts of characters. Very often, but not always, Socrates played the lead role. Socrates’ opinions (at least as represented by Plato) are therefore those one most immediately takes from any given Platonic dialogue as the main ideas. This has led to ...
from past to present: heritage and conflict - E
... dedicated to the monument of the Acropolis had to be surpassed in order to make the decision to present a paper. There was a stronghold of spreading doubt that there could be anything more to contribute to the existing research. However, it is intended to reveal some notions related to this monument ...
... dedicated to the monument of the Acropolis had to be surpassed in order to make the decision to present a paper. There was a stronghold of spreading doubt that there could be anything more to contribute to the existing research. However, it is intended to reveal some notions related to this monument ...
Sleepwalkers in Athens: Power, Norms, and Ambiguity in Thucydides
... unlike the pursuit of power, normative behaviour changes over time. This certainly applies to international norms. How do international norms change? Slavery now appears abhorrent, while aggression across recognized borders has become unacceptable. Thucydides had shown – among so many other things – ...
... unlike the pursuit of power, normative behaviour changes over time. This certainly applies to international norms. How do international norms change? Slavery now appears abhorrent, while aggression across recognized borders has become unacceptable. Thucydides had shown – among so many other things – ...
1 - Utrecht University Repository
... their cultural interaction through material remains. 6 Thanks to this approach, we have a far more accurate understanding of the ancient Greek receptivity of Persian cultural traits, whether they are iconographic motifs, luxury artefacts which define the status of the owner, or even drinking habits. ...
... their cultural interaction through material remains. 6 Thanks to this approach, we have a far more accurate understanding of the ancient Greek receptivity of Persian cultural traits, whether they are iconographic motifs, luxury artefacts which define the status of the owner, or even drinking habits. ...
Student 1 Response (A grade) [DOC 78KB]
... of the few who did exactly that. Still known today as the only ‘female intellectual’ linked with Ancient Athens (Cantarella, 1989, pg 75), Aspasia etched a place in history for herself, a feat accomplished by an elite few. Those who are still known today include Helen of Troy, who after supposedly l ...
... of the few who did exactly that. Still known today as the only ‘female intellectual’ linked with Ancient Athens (Cantarella, 1989, pg 75), Aspasia etched a place in history for herself, a feat accomplished by an elite few. Those who are still known today include Helen of Troy, who after supposedly l ...
journal - American Journal of Social Issues and Humanities
... exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face. (29). Commenting on this remark of Pericles, Sabine and Thorson asserts that they (the Athenians) "assumed that severe training and intense specialization were not required in order ...
... exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face. (29). Commenting on this remark of Pericles, Sabine and Thorson asserts that they (the Athenians) "assumed that severe training and intense specialization were not required in order ...
Corinth as a Catalyst Before and During the Peloponnesian War
... was right for the most part; the Spartans, the second of the two powers, did sidestep most diplomatic issues until about 432 BCE, when they abruptly declared war. Significant exceptions did exist—the helot revolts, for one—but Sparta remained extraordinarily isolated. Thus, Sparta did leave herself ...
... was right for the most part; the Spartans, the second of the two powers, did sidestep most diplomatic issues until about 432 BCE, when they abruptly declared war. Significant exceptions did exist—the helot revolts, for one—but Sparta remained extraordinarily isolated. Thus, Sparta did leave herself ...
Ancient Sparta. - Historyteacher.net
... BACKGROUND: Ancient Sparta is known today (if at all) as the militaristic rival of "enlightened" Athens in Classical Greece. Images of harsh discipline, a merciless emphasis on courage and a society lacking art, literature and culture predominate in popular literature and non-specialist education. ...
... BACKGROUND: Ancient Sparta is known today (if at all) as the militaristic rival of "enlightened" Athens in Classical Greece. Images of harsh discipline, a merciless emphasis on courage and a society lacking art, literature and culture predominate in popular literature and non-specialist education. ...