Guide-Unit 3-Thucydides
... remind you of certain points and to rebuke you for your misplaced anger at me and for your giving in too easily to misfortune.” [2.60] (52) 2) “I believe that if the city is sound as a whole, it does more good to its private citizens than if it benefits them as individuals while faltering as a colle ...
... remind you of certain points and to rebuke you for your misplaced anger at me and for your giving in too easily to misfortune.” [2.60] (52) 2) “I believe that if the city is sound as a whole, it does more good to its private citizens than if it benefits them as individuals while faltering as a colle ...
Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
... own contemporary modes of discourse (Skinner ): this mode of ‘Skinnerism’ too has its critics (Rahe : n. ), both for its choice of particular texts (set well below the level of the loftiest) and for the use it makes of them. Some critics are, of course, never satisfied. evidence Touchin ...
... own contemporary modes of discourse (Skinner ): this mode of ‘Skinnerism’ too has its critics (Rahe : n. ), both for its choice of particular texts (set well below the level of the loftiest) and for the use it makes of them. Some critics are, of course, never satisfied. evidence Touchin ...
Volume I Spring 2000 Number 1 A Journal of Great Books
... goal of his army was to force them to become allies of Sparta to keep them from subjugation by Athens (Woodruff 98). This points out that weaker states were going to be forced to take one side or the other. These points show that the Athenian Empire was necessary primarily for the security of Athen ...
... goal of his army was to force them to become allies of Sparta to keep them from subjugation by Athens (Woodruff 98). This points out that weaker states were going to be forced to take one side or the other. These points show that the Athenian Empire was necessary primarily for the security of Athen ...
The Historians: Herodotus and Thucydides
... Presumably much of this audience were from Athens, or from settlements in its naval empire, who enjoyed the tales of their city’s heroism and glory, but who also perhaps revelled in stories of faraway places and exotic customs, helping Greeks to define themselves. ...
... Presumably much of this audience were from Athens, or from settlements in its naval empire, who enjoyed the tales of their city’s heroism and glory, but who also perhaps revelled in stories of faraway places and exotic customs, helping Greeks to define themselves. ...
First Peloponnesian War to Reduction of Melos
... “[T]he popular principle of justice is to have equality according to number, not worth, and if this is the principle of justice prevailing, the multitude must of necessity be sovereign and the decision of the majority must be final and must constitute justice, for they say that each of the citizens ...
... “[T]he popular principle of justice is to have equality according to number, not worth, and if this is the principle of justice prevailing, the multitude must of necessity be sovereign and the decision of the majority must be final and must constitute justice, for they say that each of the citizens ...
Views of Sea Power in the Fourth Century Attic
... the seas without fear; and will actually double their revenues. 7 All of this suggests that the arche held by the navy was not considered an economic asset, and indeed could be viewed as a liability.' The use of the navy to protect one's own trade and lines of supply and conversely to interfere with ...
... the seas without fear; and will actually double their revenues. 7 All of this suggests that the arche held by the navy was not considered an economic asset, and indeed could be viewed as a liability.' The use of the navy to protect one's own trade and lines of supply and conversely to interfere with ...
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
... questions of justice, obedience, and legitimate authority are not easily severed from the ethical question of why and how to value others.2 And so, it is worth asking: When ancient political institutions seem newly attentive to the interests of non-citizen others, how was this revaluation of outside ...
... questions of justice, obedience, and legitimate authority are not easily severed from the ethical question of why and how to value others.2 And so, it is worth asking: When ancient political institutions seem newly attentive to the interests of non-citizen others, how was this revaluation of outside ...
thebes as the “anti-athens”? some observations on the city`s
... experience to a non-Athenian setting. The tragedians evidently exploited the centrality of many “other” places in the mythical repertoire within which they worked: it is clear that any non-Athenian setting may function as an “other” topos, be it Greek (Argos, Sparta, Corinth), or non-Greek (Troy, T ...
... experience to a non-Athenian setting. The tragedians evidently exploited the centrality of many “other” places in the mythical repertoire within which they worked: it is clear that any non-Athenian setting may function as an “other” topos, be it Greek (Argos, Sparta, Corinth), or non-Greek (Troy, T ...
BEFORE THE ODYSSEY
... Greek legend, as created by Homer, attributes the war to the Trojan prince Paris, who kidnapped Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek king. ...
... Greek legend, as created by Homer, attributes the war to the Trojan prince Paris, who kidnapped Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek king. ...
Tasmanian Certificate of Education
... Explain how the problems of the Italian allies affected Roman politics from 134 – 89 BC. Why did the Romans refuse to give citizenship to the allies for so long? ...
... Explain how the problems of the Italian allies affected Roman politics from 134 – 89 BC. Why did the Romans refuse to give citizenship to the allies for so long? ...
Funeral Speech of Pericles
... your answer. 2. What ideals were held in high esteem by the Greeks? In what ways does American Democracy diverge from these ideals? ...
... your answer. 2. What ideals were held in high esteem by the Greeks? In what ways does American Democracy diverge from these ideals? ...
Corrupted States: Tyranny in Plato and Thucydides
... “famine” (λιμόν) or “plague” (λοιμόν). This dispute in word choice further indicates the importance of memory, both within the text and without. ...
... “famine” (λιμόν) or “plague” (λοιμόν). This dispute in word choice further indicates the importance of memory, both within the text and without. ...
Coping with a new Situation - Utrecht University Repository
... Ancient sources speak about contacts and friendships between Greek and nonGreek elites. Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Aristotle deliver descriptions that show Greek elites not only had ties within Greece, but also kept contact with elite families elsewhere. Whilst Athens developed her ...
... Ancient sources speak about contacts and friendships between Greek and nonGreek elites. Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Aristotle deliver descriptions that show Greek elites not only had ties within Greece, but also kept contact with elite families elsewhere. Whilst Athens developed her ...
PERICLES
... The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles' power as an orator. •The Funeral Oration that he has Pericles deliver in honour of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is esp ...
... The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles' power as an orator. •The Funeral Oration that he has Pericles deliver in honour of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is esp ...
Fancy Footwork
... Dissoi Logoi is an anonymous sophistic treatise written some time around the end of the Peloponnesian War (so around 404 B.C.) ...
... Dissoi Logoi is an anonymous sophistic treatise written some time around the end of the Peloponnesian War (so around 404 B.C.) ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
... As the history of the Greek republics has been too often corruptly pressed into the service of heated political partisans, may I be pardoned the precaution of observing that, whatever my own political code, as applied to England, I have nowhere sought knowingly to pervert the lessons of a past nor a ...
... As the history of the Greek republics has been too often corruptly pressed into the service of heated political partisans, may I be pardoned the precaution of observing that, whatever my own political code, as applied to England, I have nowhere sought knowingly to pervert the lessons of a past nor a ...
High Classical or “Golden Age” Period
... Grave Steve of Hegeso (Atrributed to Kallimachos) Marble and paint, ca 410 BCE. While Hegeso's relief may show a purely domestic scene, the virtues it honors may not have been solely for private use. Rather than simply celebrating the lives of certain women, the presence of stelae similar to that of ...
... Grave Steve of Hegeso (Atrributed to Kallimachos) Marble and paint, ca 410 BCE. While Hegeso's relief may show a purely domestic scene, the virtues it honors may not have been solely for private use. Rather than simply celebrating the lives of certain women, the presence of stelae similar to that of ...
Greece as a Spiritual Home: Gerhart Hauptmann`s Travel Diary
... Greek art. His views influenced scholars and writers throughout Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and fostered an engagement with Hellenism that became so pervasive that it has been called ‘the tyranny of Greece over Germany.’1 Winckelmann, who never visited Greece, considered G ...
... Greek art. His views influenced scholars and writers throughout Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and fostered an engagement with Hellenism that became so pervasive that it has been called ‘the tyranny of Greece over Germany.’1 Winckelmann, who never visited Greece, considered G ...
Classical Greek drama evolved from religious festivals honoring
... The Trachinian Women, and Oedipus at Colonus. (Of the lost plays, about a thousand fragments remain.) In his long life, Sophocles saw Greece rise to supremacy over the Persian Empire. He enjoyed the favor of the statesman Pericles, who made peace with enemy Sparta and ruled Athens during a Golden Ag ...
... The Trachinian Women, and Oedipus at Colonus. (Of the lost plays, about a thousand fragments remain.) In his long life, Sophocles saw Greece rise to supremacy over the Persian Empire. He enjoyed the favor of the statesman Pericles, who made peace with enemy Sparta and ruled Athens during a Golden Ag ...
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The
... from ancient times to the outbreak of the war. Although, as we have already noted, Thucydides did not think of causes in the modern or scientific sense of the term, his analysis of the factors that altered the distribution of power in ancient Greece, and ultimately accounted for the war, is remarkab ...
... from ancient times to the outbreak of the war. Although, as we have already noted, Thucydides did not think of causes in the modern or scientific sense of the term, his analysis of the factors that altered the distribution of power in ancient Greece, and ultimately accounted for the war, is remarkab ...
what the government did… - Oakland Unified School District
... Today, citizens of the United States have some rights and responsibilities that non-citizens do not have? What are those rights and responsibilities? Identify at least two. ______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ...
... Today, citizens of the United States have some rights and responsibilities that non-citizens do not have? What are those rights and responsibilities? Identify at least two. ______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ...
Third Annual Kossmann Lecture by Paul Cartledge
... (either then or later). Yet only five years earlier, in 404, Athens had ceased to be a democracy at all, and that for the second time within a decade. This was thanks to a Sparta-backed oligarchic coup at the end of a very long war which Athens had lost. This coup brought to power a small cabal or j ...
... (either then or later). Yet only five years earlier, in 404, Athens had ceased to be a democracy at all, and that for the second time within a decade. This was thanks to a Sparta-backed oligarchic coup at the end of a very long war which Athens had lost. This coup brought to power a small cabal or j ...
The Pheidippides Legend
... no bows to match the Persian longbows. The primary Athenian defensive weapon was only a long and heavy spear. But the out numbered Athenians and Plataeans had something that made them great. They had visionary leadership. The ten generals, one in ...
... no bows to match the Persian longbows. The primary Athenian defensive weapon was only a long and heavy spear. But the out numbered Athenians and Plataeans had something that made them great. They had visionary leadership. The ten generals, one in ...
Arming Slaves and Helots in Classical Greece
... about slaves and military service, we should take full account of this evidence. Indeed, other cases have very probably been completely lost from our records. Types of Slave Use Rather than go through the scattered individual cases of arming slaves among the many wars of classical Greece, perhaps mo ...
... about slaves and military service, we should take full account of this evidence. Indeed, other cases have very probably been completely lost from our records. Types of Slave Use Rather than go through the scattered individual cases of arming slaves among the many wars of classical Greece, perhaps mo ...
20th Year of Artaxerxes - Bible Student Chronology
... 836 The fleet of the Greeks (composed of vessels contributed by the allied Grecian states, and therefore known as the " allied fleet ") was stationed in the narrow strait between the island of Salamis and the Attic coast near Athens. It was here that the famous " battle of Salamis" took place, when ...
... 836 The fleet of the Greeks (composed of vessels contributed by the allied Grecian states, and therefore known as the " allied fleet ") was stationed in the narrow strait between the island of Salamis and the Attic coast near Athens. It was here that the famous " battle of Salamis" took place, when ...
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.