Sample Historical Text Analysis: Pericles`s Funeral Oration
... economic status does not prohibit them from becoming a statesman, and hence why there was no ruling of the people by an elite group. This mentality derives from a train of thought pioneered by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who looked down upon the concept of oligarchy. Although what Pericles desc ...
... economic status does not prohibit them from becoming a statesman, and hence why there was no ruling of the people by an elite group. This mentality derives from a train of thought pioneered by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who looked down upon the concept of oligarchy. Although what Pericles desc ...
entry 11 the golden age of greece
... Pericles, now the total leader of Athens, pushed through a law that made sure that aristocrats had limited power. This helped him with support from middle and lower classes. Pericles, as a leader, was known for his incorruptibility and refusal to accept gifts from other aristocrats. This was usually ...
... Pericles, now the total leader of Athens, pushed through a law that made sure that aristocrats had limited power. This helped him with support from middle and lower classes. Pericles, as a leader, was known for his incorruptibility and refusal to accept gifts from other aristocrats. This was usually ...
Polis Profile: Argos
... Although it never achieved the cultural greatness of Athens or the military greatness of Sparta, Argos has an illustrious past and definitely made its mark in Hellenic history. Unlike neighboring Corinth, Argos was not blessed geographically. Their farmland was not especially fertile, and their clim ...
... Although it never achieved the cultural greatness of Athens or the military greatness of Sparta, Argos has an illustrious past and definitely made its mark in Hellenic history. Unlike neighboring Corinth, Argos was not blessed geographically. Their farmland was not especially fertile, and their clim ...
The-Peloponessian-Warppt.LiamMacS
... ...as long as the Athenians led us fairly we followed them loyally; but when we saw them relax their hostility to the Mede, to try to compass the subjection of the allies, then our apprehensions began... ...but the same system also enabled them to lead the stronger states against the weaker first, a ...
... ...as long as the Athenians led us fairly we followed them loyally; but when we saw them relax their hostility to the Mede, to try to compass the subjection of the allies, then our apprehensions began... ...but the same system also enabled them to lead the stronger states against the weaker first, a ...
Volumes published (2006)
... 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 Delian League’1. This league of allies rapidly became to all intents and purposes an A ...
... 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 Delian League’1. This league of allies rapidly became to all intents and purposes an A ...
Attica
... The Peiraeus was a parish from early times, though it was not a port before Themistocles became an archon of the Athenians.2 Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and before him Theseus, whe ...
... The Peiraeus was a parish from early times, though it was not a port before Themistocles became an archon of the Athenians.2 Their port was Phalerum, for at this place the sea comes nearest to Athens, and from here men say that Menestheus set sail with his fleet for Troy, and before him Theseus, whe ...
Lysistrata the warrior - University of Nottingham Blogs
... ended up in prison at Argos (Thucydides 8.86.9). Eventually, fearing (not without reason) that their fall was imminent, the Four Hundred sent a new, high-powered delegation post-haste to Sparta with instructions “at all costs to make any terms with the Spartans that were in any way endurable”. Accor ...
... ended up in prison at Argos (Thucydides 8.86.9). Eventually, fearing (not without reason) that their fall was imminent, the Four Hundred sent a new, high-powered delegation post-haste to Sparta with instructions “at all costs to make any terms with the Spartans that were in any way endurable”. Accor ...
Ancient Greece Timeline
... 1546 Scamander founded the kingdom of Troy. Homer immortalized its history. 1556 Cecrops, from Egypt, founded Athens. 1500 Peak of Mycenaean civilization. Hittite Empire in Asia Minor. 1470 Volcano destroys Cretan civilization through ash, poisonous vapors, seismic 250 meter high waves. Mycenae es ...
... 1546 Scamander founded the kingdom of Troy. Homer immortalized its history. 1556 Cecrops, from Egypt, founded Athens. 1500 Peak of Mycenaean civilization. Hittite Empire in Asia Minor. 1470 Volcano destroys Cretan civilization through ash, poisonous vapors, seismic 250 meter high waves. Mycenae es ...
Athens - The Idea of Democracy
... So by 502 BC, Athens had pretty much established its culture and political structure, just as Sparta had pretty much established its culture and political structure by 550 BC. Athens was more or less a democracy; it had become primarily a trading and commercial center; a large part of the Athenian e ...
... So by 502 BC, Athens had pretty much established its culture and political structure, just as Sparta had pretty much established its culture and political structure by 550 BC. Athens was more or less a democracy; it had become primarily a trading and commercial center; a large part of the Athenian e ...
Funding Military Expeditions in Classical Athens
... controlled by close-knit coteries and exceptional individuals as in Rome, I shall argue here that Athenian affairs were driven by a combination of institutional rules and norms, elite leadership with some distinctly aristocratic resonances, and an accountability system which combined intraelite comp ...
... controlled by close-knit coteries and exceptional individuals as in Rome, I shall argue here that Athenian affairs were driven by a combination of institutional rules and norms, elite leadership with some distinctly aristocratic resonances, and an accountability system which combined intraelite comp ...
a vision of imperial unity: the temple of venus and roma1
... of recent archaeological research however, have conclusively shown that the two cellas were rectilinear with no evidence of curvilinear features (Barattolo, 1978, 398) [Figure 11]. This is a surprising feature on at least three counts: firstly, curvilinear design had attained a time-tested structura ...
... of recent archaeological research however, have conclusively shown that the two cellas were rectilinear with no evidence of curvilinear features (Barattolo, 1978, 398) [Figure 11]. This is a surprising feature on at least three counts: firstly, curvilinear design had attained a time-tested structura ...
The Peloponnesian War
... Without being able to finish off the Spartans in the war because of disease and not having any trade in the Mediterranean and without silver- people in Athens began to panic. They began to break into different groups and argue with each other. Democracy had made the Athenians powerful in the past, b ...
... Without being able to finish off the Spartans in the war because of disease and not having any trade in the Mediterranean and without silver- people in Athens began to panic. They began to break into different groups and argue with each other. Democracy had made the Athenians powerful in the past, b ...
demos101
... Cleisthenes lost power in the political clubs, he won the support of the people by promising them control of the state. The power of Isagoras waned in turn, and he called in [the Spartan king] Cleomenes again, for he had ties of friendship with him. He persuaded him to ‘expel the curse,’ for the Alc ...
... Cleisthenes lost power in the political clubs, he won the support of the people by promising them control of the state. The power of Isagoras waned in turn, and he called in [the Spartan king] Cleomenes again, for he had ties of friendship with him. He persuaded him to ‘expel the curse,’ for the Alc ...
demos101
... Cleisthenes lost power in the political clubs, he won the support of the people by promising them control of the state. The power of Isagoras waned in turn, and he called in [the Spartan king] Cleomenes again, for he had ties of friendship with him. He persuaded him to ‘expel the curse,’ for the Alc ...
... Cleisthenes lost power in the political clubs, he won the support of the people by promising them control of the state. The power of Isagoras waned in turn, and he called in [the Spartan king] Cleomenes again, for he had ties of friendship with him. He persuaded him to ‘expel the curse,’ for the Alc ...
PDF - first - The Wilson Quarterly
... subsequent doom—including their devastating loss of more than 40,000 men who were killed or taken prisoner in a risky expedition to Sicily in 415–413 bc—was brought on only when they “began to look around for some mighty deed they could perform that would raise their rank in the eyes of the Greeks.” ...
... subsequent doom—including their devastating loss of more than 40,000 men who were killed or taken prisoner in a risky expedition to Sicily in 415–413 bc—was brought on only when they “began to look around for some mighty deed they could perform that would raise their rank in the eyes of the Greeks.” ...
Athenian Political Reform Under Solon, Cleisthenes & Pisistratus
... factional disputes but that citizens were content because of idleness to accept whatever the outcome might be; he therefore produced a specific law against them, laying down that anyone who did not choose one side or the other in such a dispute should lose his citizen rights. -Aristotle, Constitutio ...
... factional disputes but that citizens were content because of idleness to accept whatever the outcome might be; he therefore produced a specific law against them, laying down that anyone who did not choose one side or the other in such a dispute should lose his citizen rights. -Aristotle, Constitutio ...
Summary of Pericles Funeral Oration
... Pericles begins his praise of the war dead, as the other Athenian funeral orations do, by praising the ancestors of present day Athenians, touching briefly on the acquisition of the empire. At this point, however, Pericles departs most dramatically from the example of other Athenian funeral orations ...
... Pericles begins his praise of the war dead, as the other Athenian funeral orations do, by praising the ancestors of present day Athenians, touching briefly on the acquisition of the empire. At this point, however, Pericles departs most dramatically from the example of other Athenian funeral orations ...
Walking in Agora, the heart of the ancient Athens!
... 4. Stoa Basileios or Royal Stoa: This is the seat of the king Archon, responsible for the charges of impiety. Athens’ most important laws are kept here. Initially the Athenians had set up wooden pillars (“kyrveis”) with Solon’s laws, which were replaced by marble ones. The “Oath Stone» is located ou ...
... 4. Stoa Basileios or Royal Stoa: This is the seat of the king Archon, responsible for the charges of impiety. Athens’ most important laws are kept here. Initially the Athenians had set up wooden pillars (“kyrveis”) with Solon’s laws, which were replaced by marble ones. The “Oath Stone» is located ou ...
Week 8: The Athenian Empire
... loss of guaranteed grain supply. Only 17 states still furnish ships to Athens, later all pay cash except Lesbos, Chios, and Samos. The Athenians make an alliance with the Achaean cities on the south coast of the Corinthian Gulf, additional blow to Corinthian western trade. 454/3 Treasury of the Deli ...
... loss of guaranteed grain supply. Only 17 states still furnish ships to Athens, later all pay cash except Lesbos, Chios, and Samos. The Athenians make an alliance with the Achaean cities on the south coast of the Corinthian Gulf, additional blow to Corinthian western trade. 454/3 Treasury of the Deli ...
For over 20 years, at Athens` height, the city was dominated by the
... In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full citizen. The law's main effect was to curb the power of the aristocrats since if their heirs could not be legally recognized they could no longer forge alliances w ...
... In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full citizen. The law's main effect was to curb the power of the aristocrats since if their heirs could not be legally recognized they could no longer forge alliances w ...
Athens V Sparta - Primary Resources
... However when it came to Athens and Sparta against each other… Sparta won! But, they did not take over Athens they said they would not burn it as long as Athens promised not to keep trying to take over. Athens was therefore left as it was and even now is one of the most famous cities in the world. ...
... However when it came to Athens and Sparta against each other… Sparta won! But, they did not take over Athens they said they would not burn it as long as Athens promised not to keep trying to take over. Athens was therefore left as it was and even now is one of the most famous cities in the world. ...
Pericles
... powerful politician himself. His friend Anaxagoras, a philosopher, had to flee from the city; there were whispers about Pericles' wife Aspasia; and the sculptor Phidias had to explain how he had spent money that was meant for the statue of Athena in the Parthenon. It was rumored that, when Pericles ...
... powerful politician himself. His friend Anaxagoras, a philosopher, had to flee from the city; there were whispers about Pericles' wife Aspasia; and the sculptor Phidias had to explain how he had spent money that was meant for the statue of Athena in the Parthenon. It was rumored that, when Pericles ...
Pericles and Socrates
... Research the answers to the following questions: PERICLES AND SOCRATES 1. What is the Parthenon? (include an image) 2. Explain the choice for its location? 3. Why was it built? 4. How long did it take to build it? 5. One of the most important features is the 500ft frieze; (include an image). Explain ...
... Research the answers to the following questions: PERICLES AND SOCRATES 1. What is the Parthenon? (include an image) 2. Explain the choice for its location? 3. Why was it built? 4. How long did it take to build it? 5. One of the most important features is the 500ft frieze; (include an image). Explain ...
Athens - Agathe.gr
... In the spring and again in autumn after the first rains, most of Greece is covered with a prodigal display of wild flowers (21). Some 6000 species flourish, of which a few grow only in the Arcadian valley of the Styx. The flowers in ancient gardens were those still most familiar to us, such as the c ...
... In the spring and again in autumn after the first rains, most of Greece is covered with a prodigal display of wild flowers (21). Some 6000 species flourish, of which a few grow only in the Arcadian valley of the Styx. The flowers in ancient gardens were those still most familiar to us, such as the c ...
Pericles - crazygirltbs
... Athens. Pericles did not ask permission to use any of the money for beautifying. This made the citystates very mad. To create sculptures and buildings he got gold, ivory and marble. He also had to use money to pay artists and architects” (Littell 212). Using the money made the Greeks go crazy but af ...
... Athens. Pericles did not ask permission to use any of the money for beautifying. This made the citystates very mad. To create sculptures and buildings he got gold, ivory and marble. He also had to use money to pay artists and architects” (Littell 212). Using the money made the Greeks go crazy but af ...
Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀκρόπολις; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, ""edge, extremity"") and πόλις (polis, ""city""). Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as ""The Acropolis"" without qualification.While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back as the fourth millennium BC, it was Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BC) in the fifth century BC who coordinated the construction of the site's most important buildings including the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the temple of Athena Nike. The Parthenon and the other buildings were seriously damaged during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War when the Parthenon was being used for gunpowder storage and was hit by a cannonball.The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the preeminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.