Abstract
... Periander instructs his daughter to make a more practical appeal. She warns her brother that his obstinacy threatens the family’s claim to power, as the aged Periander has no worthy successor: “Tyranny is a slippery possession and has many lovers” (τυραννὶς χρῆμα σφαλερόν, πολλοὶ δὲ αὐτῆς ἐρασταί εἰ ...
... Periander instructs his daughter to make a more practical appeal. She warns her brother that his obstinacy threatens the family’s claim to power, as the aged Periander has no worthy successor: “Tyranny is a slippery possession and has many lovers” (τυραννὶς χρῆμα σφαλερόν, πολλοὶ δὲ αὐτῆς ἐρασταί εἰ ...
The Clouds by Aristophanes
... As is customary in guild productions of Aristophanes’ work, the comedy ends in a wild, three-minute chase, patterned after old Mack Sennett movies: an exhilarating conclusion to the summer season. Besides their entertainment value, Aristophanic comedies are prized for what they tell us the Athenian ...
... As is customary in guild productions of Aristophanes’ work, the comedy ends in a wild, three-minute chase, patterned after old Mack Sennett movies: an exhilarating conclusion to the summer season. Besides their entertainment value, Aristophanic comedies are prized for what they tell us the Athenian ...
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... The writer has been under a heavy debt to the numerous and excellent works on Greek ”Private Antiquities” and ”Public Life” written in English, French, or German, as well as to the various great Classical Encyclopædias and Dictionaries, and to many treatises and monographs upon the topography of Ath ...
... The writer has been under a heavy debt to the numerous and excellent works on Greek ”Private Antiquities” and ”Public Life” written in English, French, or German, as well as to the various great Classical Encyclopædias and Dictionaries, and to many treatises and monographs upon the topography of Ath ...
The Parthenon: Pericles, Athena and Civic Identity
... The Parthenon: Pericles, Athena and civic identity Periclean Athens Pericles leads Athens’ democracy (461-429) Kresilas, Pericles, Greece, 440 (Roman copy) view of Parthenon, west façade (447-432) Athenian victory in Persian War (499-479): Burning of Acropolis (480); Marathon (490), Salamis (480) De ...
... The Parthenon: Pericles, Athena and civic identity Periclean Athens Pericles leads Athens’ democracy (461-429) Kresilas, Pericles, Greece, 440 (Roman copy) view of Parthenon, west façade (447-432) Athenian victory in Persian War (499-479): Burning of Acropolis (480); Marathon (490), Salamis (480) De ...
Solon on Athletics
... 500 measures or more of wet and dry produce were placed in the first class or the pentakosiomedimnoi. 8 The second class included those citizens whose income was 300 measures of wet and dry produce; these men were called hippeis. A third classification, known as the zeugitai, was composed of individ ...
... 500 measures or more of wet and dry produce were placed in the first class or the pentakosiomedimnoi. 8 The second class included those citizens whose income was 300 measures of wet and dry produce; these men were called hippeis. A third classification, known as the zeugitai, was composed of individ ...
Writing Standards in Action-Grade 6 Opinion/Argument Commentary
... on-demand argument with an embedded analysis that demonstrates knowledge of content from a unit of study. Careful acknowledgement and rebuttal of opposing claims strengthen the argument and give weight to the writer’s analysis, and a logical progression of ideas creates considerable coherence and cl ...
... on-demand argument with an embedded analysis that demonstrates knowledge of content from a unit of study. Careful acknowledgement and rebuttal of opposing claims strengthen the argument and give weight to the writer’s analysis, and a logical progression of ideas creates considerable coherence and cl ...
Sample GCE Lesson Plan
... Osborne, R. The Classical City, in Classical Greece, ed. Osborne, R., Oxford University Press, 2000 (in the Short Oxford History of Europe series.) ...
... Osborne, R. The Classical City, in Classical Greece, ed. Osborne, R., Oxford University Press, 2000 (in the Short Oxford History of Europe series.) ...
Determining the Significance of Alliance
... ‘dragged into a conflict over an ally’s interests that one does not share, or shares only partially’ (Snyder 1984, 467). Entrapment takes place when allies wish to maintain the security of the alliance more than they are willing to allow the destruction of their ally. An ally will choose abandonment ...
... ‘dragged into a conflict over an ally’s interests that one does not share, or shares only partially’ (Snyder 1984, 467). Entrapment takes place when allies wish to maintain the security of the alliance more than they are willing to allow the destruction of their ally. An ally will choose abandonment ...
The epidemic of Athens, 430
... through the ages, has accompanied wars and famine, is the only favoured disease which typically causes gangrene of the extremities, as well as blindness and amnesia. 20 However, its characteristic skin rash is not bullous. Although lice occurred abundantly in ancient Greece and some authors claim th ...
... through the ages, has accompanied wars and famine, is the only favoured disease which typically causes gangrene of the extremities, as well as blindness and amnesia. 20 However, its characteristic skin rash is not bullous. Although lice occurred abundantly in ancient Greece and some authors claim th ...
DETERMINING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ALLIANCE PATHOLOGIES
... ‘dragged into a conflict over an ally’s interests that one does not share, or shares only partially’ (Snyder 1984, 467). Entrapment takes place when allies wish to maintain the security of the alliance more than they are willing to allow the destruction of their ally. An ally will choose abandonment ...
... ‘dragged into a conflict over an ally’s interests that one does not share, or shares only partially’ (Snyder 1984, 467). Entrapment takes place when allies wish to maintain the security of the alliance more than they are willing to allow the destruction of their ally. An ally will choose abandonment ...
Democracy and institutional change
... knowledge. Compared to the modern average citizen, the average Athenian citizen was better informed on policy questions (Manville and Ober, 2003). Economic democracy can be further viewed as a market place for the circulation of ideas, in the form of specific proposals on various issues, which could ...
... knowledge. Compared to the modern average citizen, the average Athenian citizen was better informed on policy questions (Manville and Ober, 2003). Economic democracy can be further viewed as a market place for the circulation of ideas, in the form of specific proposals on various issues, which could ...
The Greek Plays Themselves
... • Antigone draws attention to the difference between divine law and human law. More than any other character in the three plays, she casts serious doubt on Creon’s authority. When she points out that his edicts cannot override the will of the gods or the unshakable traditions of men, she places Cre ...
... • Antigone draws attention to the difference between divine law and human law. More than any other character in the three plays, she casts serious doubt on Creon’s authority. When she points out that his edicts cannot override the will of the gods or the unshakable traditions of men, she places Cre ...
People and cities: economic horizons beyond the Hellenistic polis
... Rome’s military presence not only affected coin production but may in fact have been directed by Rome. De Callataÿ’s proposals require further thought and it is not clear to me yet that historians have considered the impact of his proposals. For example, De Callataÿ points to the four years’ product ...
... Rome’s military presence not only affected coin production but may in fact have been directed by Rome. De Callataÿ’s proposals require further thought and it is not clear to me yet that historians have considered the impact of his proposals. For example, De Callataÿ points to the four years’ product ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall - University of Macau Library
... these latter volumes it is my intention to complete the history of the Athenian drama--to include a survey of the Athenian philosophy--to describe the manners, habits, and social life of the people, and to conclude the whole with such a review of the facts and events narrated as may constitute, perh ...
... these latter volumes it is my intention to complete the history of the Athenian drama--to include a survey of the Athenian philosophy--to describe the manners, habits, and social life of the people, and to conclude the whole with such a review of the facts and events narrated as may constitute, perh ...
Aristophanes On War: Acharnians
... invader for help. Officialdom has broken down all the ties to wholeness in the civic realm, and it remains for an individual to restore these ties. This collapse of the traditional order is the beginning of every Aristophanic comedy. This order depended on a primary customary allegiance to the estab ...
... invader for help. Officialdom has broken down all the ties to wholeness in the civic realm, and it remains for an individual to restore these ties. This collapse of the traditional order is the beginning of every Aristophanic comedy. This order depended on a primary customary allegiance to the estab ...
Evidence Pericles
... answer o Thucydides it was he who led them not they who led he “First citizen” everyone is equal except Pericles Most positive Suggests that Pericles’ policy to make Athens “an island” by completing the long walls and building up naval power gave Athens the capability to win a long drawn o ...
... answer o Thucydides it was he who led them not they who led he “First citizen” everyone is equal except Pericles Most positive Suggests that Pericles’ policy to make Athens “an island” by completing the long walls and building up naval power gave Athens the capability to win a long drawn o ...
Herodotus
... Furthermore, his political reforms meant the ruling class were not simply chosen according to who their parents were. This laid the foundations for the famous democracy which Cleisthenes would introduce at the end of the century. After his reforms, Solon is said to have travelled the ancient world f ...
... Furthermore, his political reforms meant the ruling class were not simply chosen according to who their parents were. This laid the foundations for the famous democracy which Cleisthenes would introduce at the end of the century. After his reforms, Solon is said to have travelled the ancient world f ...
Theseus - Images
... King Minos, died while visiting the Athenian King. Prince Androgeus went on a dangerous expedition to kill a dangerous bull. Minos invaded Athens and required a tribute of seven youths and seven maidens every nine years. They were going to be Minotaur ...
... King Minos, died while visiting the Athenian King. Prince Androgeus went on a dangerous expedition to kill a dangerous bull. Minos invaded Athens and required a tribute of seven youths and seven maidens every nine years. They were going to be Minotaur ...
Historiographical Estrangement as Critique: The Divided History of
... nor realised has its roots in a political question which goes back to sixteenth-century Europe: the question of “how not to be governed” or “not being governed quite so much”. Critique, according to Foucault, was then crystallised in the Enlightenment as a challenge to governmentalisation – the move ...
... nor realised has its roots in a political question which goes back to sixteenth-century Europe: the question of “how not to be governed” or “not being governed quite so much”. Critique, according to Foucault, was then crystallised in the Enlightenment as a challenge to governmentalisation – the move ...
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... Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. All rights reserved. ...
... Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. All rights reserved. ...
What can we learn about Globalization from Ancient Athens?
... Bernard Crick rightly points out that it all started in Athens in about the 5th Century BCE. The issue is whether it all ended there for democracy. ...
... Bernard Crick rightly points out that it all started in Athens in about the 5th Century BCE. The issue is whether it all ended there for democracy. ...
Ancient Greek warfare
The Greek 'Dark Age' drew to a close as a significant increase in population allowed urbanized culture to be restored, and the rise of the city-states (Poleis). These developments ushered in the Archaic period (800-480 BC). They also restored the capability of organized warfare between these Poleis (as opposed to small-scale raids to acquire livestock and grain, for example). The fractious nature of Ancient Greek society seems to have made continuous conflict on this larger scale inevitable.Concomitant with the rise of the city-state was the evolution of a new way of warfare - the hoplite phalanx. When exactly the phalanx developed is uncertain, but it is thought to have been developed by the Spartans. The chigi vase, dated to around 650 BC, is the earliest depiction of a hoplite in full battle array. The hoplite was a well-armed and armored citizen-soldier primarily drawn from the middle classes. Every man had to serve at least two years in the army. Fighting in the tight phalanx formation maximised the effectiveness of his armor, large shield and long spear, presenting a wall of armor and spearpoints to the enemy. They were a force to be reckoned with.With this evolution in warfare, battles seem to have consisted mostly of the clash of hoplite phalanxes from the city-states in conflict. Since the soldiers were citizens with other occupations, warfare was limited in distance, season and scale. Neither side could afford heavy casualties or sustained campaigns, so conflicts seem to have been resolved by a single set-piece battle.The scale and scope of warfare in Ancient Greece changed dramatically as a result of the Greco-Persian Wars. To fight the enormous armies of the Achaemenid Empire was effectively beyond the capabilities of a single city-state. The eventual triumph of the Greeks was achieved by alliances of many city-states (the exact composition changing over time), allowing the pooling of resources and division of labour. Although alliances between city states occurred before this time, nothing on this scale had been seen before. The rise of Athens and Sparta as pre-eminent powers during this conflict led directly to the Peloponnesian War, which saw further development of the nature of warfare, strategy and tactics. Fought between leagues of cities dominated by Athens and Sparta, the increased manpower and financial resources increased the scale, and allowed the diversification of warfare. Set-piece battles during the Peloponnesian war proved indecisive and instead there was increased reliance on attritionary strategies, naval battle and blockades and sieges. These changes greatly increased the number of casualties and the disruption of Greek society.Following the eventual defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, and the disbandment of the Athenian-dominated Delian League, Ancient Greece fell under the hegemony of Sparta. However, it was soon apparent that the hegemony was unstable, and the Persian Empire sponsored a rebellion by the combined powers of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos, resulting in the Corinthian War (395-387 BC). After largely inconclusive campaigning, the war was decided when the Persians switched to supporting the Spartans, in return for the cities of Ionia and Spartan non-interference in Asia Minor. This brought the rebels to terms, and restored the Spartan hegemony on a more stable footing. The Spartan hegemony would last another 16 years, until, at the Battle of Leuctra (371) the Spartans were decisively defeated by the Theban general Epaminondas.In the aftermath of this, the Thebans acted with alacrity to establish a hegemony of their own over Greece. However, Thebes lacked sufficient manpower and resources, and became overstretched in attempting to impose itself on the rest of Greece. Following the death of Epaminondas and loss of manpower at the Battle of Mantinea, the Theban hegemony ceased. Indeed, the losses in the ten years of the Theban hegemony left all the Greek city-states weakened and divided. As such, the city-states of southern Greece would shortly afterwards be powerless to resist the rise of the Macedonian kingdom in the north. With revolutionary tactics, King Phillip II brought most of Greece under his sway, paving the way for the conquest of ""the known world"" by his son Alexander the Great. The rise of the Macedonian Kingdom is generally taken to signal the end of the Greek Classical period, and certainly marked the end of the distinctive hoplite battle in Ancient Greece.