Fictional Account of Meletus Prosecution Speech
... same! It is no surprise that the “Socratified” General Alcibiades vandalized our religious statues, mocked our mysteries, and then—upon the discovery of his crime—fled Athens and joined with the Spartans in war against us, against his own city. Now, few of you here have not had the misfortune of cro ...
... same! It is no surprise that the “Socratified” General Alcibiades vandalized our religious statues, mocked our mysteries, and then—upon the discovery of his crime—fled Athens and joined with the Spartans in war against us, against his own city. Now, few of you here have not had the misfortune of cro ...
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... Room 22: The Hellenistic World Centre left wall (entering from Room 15) Head of >blind= Homer The Apotheosis of Homer (i.e. honouring Homer as a god): Carved by Archelaos of Priene c. 225 BC - originally set up in Alexandria but later removed to Italy. In the lower level Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III, ...
... Room 22: The Hellenistic World Centre left wall (entering from Room 15) Head of >blind= Homer The Apotheosis of Homer (i.e. honouring Homer as a god): Carved by Archelaos of Priene c. 225 BC - originally set up in Alexandria but later removed to Italy. In the lower level Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III, ...
2013.07.09w Krentz on Cartledge, After Thermopylae
... Paul Cartledge tackles the challenge of “paying due homage to the Battle of Plataea as a key and pivotal moment not just in ancient or classical Greek history but in all Western history.” There could hardly be a better person for the job: Cartledge has established himself as an excellent scholar who ...
... Paul Cartledge tackles the challenge of “paying due homage to the Battle of Plataea as a key and pivotal moment not just in ancient or classical Greek history but in all Western history.” There could hardly be a better person for the job: Cartledge has established himself as an excellent scholar who ...
Plato`s Apology
... The Apology is not a treatise. It does not consist of hypothesis, evidence, argument, conclusion, and so on--the form philosophy took after Aristotle. It presents itself as the speech of Socrates at his trial. It is then, in a sense, a drama, a philosophical work of art. We must be attentive to this ...
... The Apology is not a treatise. It does not consist of hypothesis, evidence, argument, conclusion, and so on--the form philosophy took after Aristotle. It presents itself as the speech of Socrates at his trial. It is then, in a sense, a drama, a philosophical work of art. We must be attentive to this ...
BIRTH of DRAMA - Luzerne County Community College
... circular dancing area singing, dancing area ...
... circular dancing area singing, dancing area ...
Natural Barriers
... • Athens going into the Battle of Marathon only had 10,000 men • King Darius of Persia had united the Persian Army and now was trying to get revenge on Athens • Darius brings 20,000 men to attack at Marathon ...
... • Athens going into the Battle of Marathon only had 10,000 men • King Darius of Persia had united the Persian Army and now was trying to get revenge on Athens • Darius brings 20,000 men to attack at Marathon ...
Nubia - British Museum
... What was in and on the Parthenon building? A huge statue of Athena made of gold and ivory standing 12 metres tall was inside and painted sculptures outside. The west pediment (triangular space below the roof on the short side) showed Athena and Poseidon’s contest for patronship of Athens; the east s ...
... What was in and on the Parthenon building? A huge statue of Athena made of gold and ivory standing 12 metres tall was inside and painted sculptures outside. The west pediment (triangular space below the roof on the short side) showed Athena and Poseidon’s contest for patronship of Athens; the east s ...
Ancient Greece: The Parthenon
... What was in and on the Parthenon building? A huge statue of Athena made of gold and ivory standing 12 metres tall was inside and painted sculptures outside. The west pediment (triangular space below the roof on the short side) showed Athena and Poseidon’s contest for patronship of Athens; the east s ...
... What was in and on the Parthenon building? A huge statue of Athena made of gold and ivory standing 12 metres tall was inside and painted sculptures outside. The west pediment (triangular space below the roof on the short side) showed Athena and Poseidon’s contest for patronship of Athens; the east s ...
Ancient Greece - Mr. G Educates
... • How did the Athenians use NATURAL BARRIERS during the Battle of Marathon? • Why would the Athenians choose to live in a region that had NATURAL BARRIERS? ...
... • How did the Athenians use NATURAL BARRIERS during the Battle of Marathon? • Why would the Athenians choose to live in a region that had NATURAL BARRIERS? ...
Pericles - Homework For You
... marriage impact his upbringing? How was the world of Macedonian dynastic family politics very different from the world of the Greek city-states? 3. Which anecdotes about Alexander’s birth, boyhood and adolescence predict his remarkable but also troubled life? 4. While still a teenager, how did Alexa ...
... marriage impact his upbringing? How was the world of Macedonian dynastic family politics very different from the world of the Greek city-states? 3. Which anecdotes about Alexander’s birth, boyhood and adolescence predict his remarkable but also troubled life? 4. While still a teenager, how did Alexa ...
Panagiotes Kontonasios University of Athens
... that, depending on the context, meant “an informal public meeting called by an office holder, a speech delivered at such a meeting, or the actual crowd attending it”. 11 The presentation of the differences between these two civic bodies of the res publica is not the subject of this treatise. What, h ...
... that, depending on the context, meant “an informal public meeting called by an office holder, a speech delivered at such a meeting, or the actual crowd attending it”. 11 The presentation of the differences between these two civic bodies of the res publica is not the subject of this treatise. What, h ...
III. Political Onomastics of Classical Athens
... their political life. Another Russian historian of that period, Nikitskii, underlined that both in ancient Russia and in ancient Greece the notions of "the city" and that of "the state" were interchangeable. [c. 276] So, for the scholars of Russian history continuity between Greek polis and Russian ...
... their political life. Another Russian historian of that period, Nikitskii, underlined that both in ancient Russia and in ancient Greece the notions of "the city" and that of "the state" were interchangeable. [c. 276] So, for the scholars of Russian history continuity between Greek polis and Russian ...
Thucydides
... • Thucydides did not merely "go to the source", as a historian is nowadays routinely urged to do, but actually rescued his mostly oral sources from certain oblivion. • These speeches are composed in a literary manner. Pericles' funeral oration, which includes an impassioned moral defence of democrac ...
... • Thucydides did not merely "go to the source", as a historian is nowadays routinely urged to do, but actually rescued his mostly oral sources from certain oblivion. • These speeches are composed in a literary manner. Pericles' funeral oration, which includes an impassioned moral defence of democrac ...
Sample GCE Lesson Plan
... OCR recognises that the teaching of this qualification will vary greatly from school to school and from teacher to teacher. With that in mind, this lesson plan is offered as a possible approach but will be subject to modifications by the individual teacher. Lesson length is assumed to be one hour. ...
... OCR recognises that the teaching of this qualification will vary greatly from school to school and from teacher to teacher. With that in mind, this lesson plan is offered as a possible approach but will be subject to modifications by the individual teacher. Lesson length is assumed to be one hour. ...
Which School Would You Rather Attend
... Boys in Athens studied every subject, including the arts. Boys started school at the age of 6. Here, they learned two things: poetry and how to play an instrument called the lyre. Books very were expensive, so the boys had to listen to everything their teacher told them and memorize it. Other subjec ...
... Boys in Athens studied every subject, including the arts. Boys started school at the age of 6. Here, they learned two things: poetry and how to play an instrument called the lyre. Books very were expensive, so the boys had to listen to everything their teacher told them and memorize it. Other subjec ...
Commentary on an Attic Black Figure Lekythos, Ure Museum inv
... love with her just as he pierces her with his sword. One example of another painter’s treatment of this scene is the London B 210 neck amphora by Exekias.7 Here, the spear is shown to penetrate her neck and draw blood, something which rarely happens in images of Heraklean battles and is not to be fo ...
... love with her just as he pierces her with his sword. One example of another painter’s treatment of this scene is the London B 210 neck amphora by Exekias.7 Here, the spear is shown to penetrate her neck and draw blood, something which rarely happens in images of Heraklean battles and is not to be fo ...
9786 classical heritage - Cambridge International Examinations
... injustices such as the corruption of the court system, the power of the demagogues and the rise of sophistry. In Menander's plays the fantasy element is clearly less significant (although presumably old men did not fall down wells all that often!) and the plays seem to reflect a setting based on asp ...
... injustices such as the corruption of the court system, the power of the demagogues and the rise of sophistry. In Menander's plays the fantasy element is clearly less significant (although presumably old men did not fall down wells all that often!) and the plays seem to reflect a setting based on asp ...
2 – Archaic Greece – Rise of Athenian Democracy
... nobles, which were called the Areopagus, from the name of the hill on which they met. In the eighth century BC, these nobles gradually became very wealthy, particularly off of the cash crops of wine and olive oil, both of which require great wealth to get started. As their wealth increased, the nobl ...
... nobles, which were called the Areopagus, from the name of the hill on which they met. In the eighth century BC, these nobles gradually became very wealthy, particularly off of the cash crops of wine and olive oil, both of which require great wealth to get started. As their wealth increased, the nobl ...
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 ...
Impact of the plague in Ancient Greece
... of Athens’ first-line troops. These numbers are of crucial significance given the labor-intensive nature of ancient warfare. Unlike modern war, in which technologic superiority can negate numerical advantage, in antiquity the gods tended to favor those with the largest battalions. The fact that Athens ...
... of Athens’ first-line troops. These numbers are of crucial significance given the labor-intensive nature of ancient warfare. Unlike modern war, in which technologic superiority can negate numerical advantage, in antiquity the gods tended to favor those with the largest battalions. The fact that Athens ...
Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient Athens Carl
... circumstances such as relative prices and transaction costs (which are in turn influenced by the institutional set-up). The formal rules may promote efficient economic behaviour, but that is by no means necessarily the case, as the ruler’s best interest also depends on how he can extract resources a ...
... circumstances such as relative prices and transaction costs (which are in turn influenced by the institutional set-up). The formal rules may promote efficient economic behaviour, but that is by no means necessarily the case, as the ruler’s best interest also depends on how he can extract resources a ...
Sparta - Prep World History I
... Sparta. The two represent diametrically opposed concepts of the Greek polis [city-state] and its relations with other city-states; they also represent diametrically opposed concepts of the individual's relationship to the state. Despite all the rhetoric in Athens and in the European historical tradi ...
... Sparta. The two represent diametrically opposed concepts of the Greek polis [city-state] and its relations with other city-states; they also represent diametrically opposed concepts of the individual's relationship to the state. Despite all the rhetoric in Athens and in the European historical tradi ...
The `Surge`: Tragedy Replayed as Farce
... he was arguing against! (It seems that the only purpose of such sophistry is to so disorient the reader, so that the next wild assertion can be swallowed.) In fact, the “personal attack” was the most useful part of Nicias’ speech, targetting Alcibiades’ drive for “glory and profit,” which was suppor ...
... he was arguing against! (It seems that the only purpose of such sophistry is to so disorient the reader, so that the next wild assertion can be swallowed.) In fact, the “personal attack” was the most useful part of Nicias’ speech, targetting Alcibiades’ drive for “glory and profit,” which was suppor ...