The Peloponnesian War
... The idea to attack Sparta came from a man named Pericles (pairuh- clees). Pericles had been the elected ruler of Athens since 461 BC. Under his leadership Athens had become not only the most powerful city-state in Greece, but the most powerful and richest city in the Mediterranean. To show how rich ...
... The idea to attack Sparta came from a man named Pericles (pairuh- clees). Pericles had been the elected ruler of Athens since 461 BC. Under his leadership Athens had become not only the most powerful city-state in Greece, but the most powerful and richest city in the Mediterranean. To show how rich ...
Plato
... : dedicated to the polis (complete loyalty to the polis was demanded of every Spartan) Virtue = obedience, courage, and participation The Greeks admired “ordered’ life, and nowhere was life more ordered than in Sparta! Spartan slaves (helots)’ life was hard, because they had to; Spartan citizens’ li ...
... : dedicated to the polis (complete loyalty to the polis was demanded of every Spartan) Virtue = obedience, courage, and participation The Greeks admired “ordered’ life, and nowhere was life more ordered than in Sparta! Spartan slaves (helots)’ life was hard, because they had to; Spartan citizens’ li ...
Corinth as a Catalyst Before and During the Peloponnesian War
... to take full advantage of the prospect of a complete alliance, they agree only to a defensive alliance with Corcyra…The Athenians feel that they cannot afford to watch Corcyra lose its navy without risking too much of their own power position. (78) Corinth now must withdraw or risk losing most of it ...
... to take full advantage of the prospect of a complete alliance, they agree only to a defensive alliance with Corcyra…The Athenians feel that they cannot afford to watch Corcyra lose its navy without risking too much of their own power position. (78) Corinth now must withdraw or risk losing most of it ...
Peloponnesian War: Practice Test 1. The politician who
... 18. After its defeat by Sparta, the Athenian assembly was forced to ratify a new government composed of a board of ______ Athenians who were antidemocratic and sympathetic to Sparta. (A) 5000 (B) 30 (C) 12 (D) 300 (E) 100 ...
... 18. After its defeat by Sparta, the Athenian assembly was forced to ratify a new government composed of a board of ______ Athenians who were antidemocratic and sympathetic to Sparta. (A) 5000 (B) 30 (C) 12 (D) 300 (E) 100 ...
2. Gerousia Leaving morning mess on the third day after his return
... They reached the whitewashed box at the agora's edge, with a single door and small, high windows set, likely not by coincidence, well above the height of prying eyes. The unarmed Spartiate at the door, more gatekeeper than guard, waved them inside. Arranged in a single row on a slightly elevated pla ...
... They reached the whitewashed box at the agora's edge, with a single door and small, high windows set, likely not by coincidence, well above the height of prying eyes. The unarmed Spartiate at the door, more gatekeeper than guard, waved them inside. Arranged in a single row on a slightly elevated pla ...
Herodotus, The Histories Book 6, Marathon
... battle and the omens were favourable, the Athenians were sent into battle and hurried forward at a run towards the barbarians. There was about a mile between the two armies. When the Persians saw them charging at a run, they got ready to receive them, considering the Athenians both mad and bent on s ...
... battle and the omens were favourable, the Athenians were sent into battle and hurried forward at a run towards the barbarians. There was about a mile between the two armies. When the Persians saw them charging at a run, they got ready to receive them, considering the Athenians both mad and bent on s ...
The Peloponnesian Wars Reading
... largely a stalemate, focusing on the Spartan king Agesilaus's siege of Corinth, which lasted until 390 BC, when the city was relieved by the Athenian general Iphicrates. This victory gave the Persians, who had been bankrolling the allies, pause, leading to the Peace of Antalcidas of 387 BC, in which ...
... largely a stalemate, focusing on the Spartan king Agesilaus's siege of Corinth, which lasted until 390 BC, when the city was relieved by the Athenian general Iphicrates. This victory gave the Persians, who had been bankrolling the allies, pause, leading to the Peace of Antalcidas of 387 BC, in which ...
In the name of God Persian influence on Greece By: Janine Bakker
... Now it is remarkable that there have been more scholars who have studied the fuss and bustle on the northwestern border of the Achaemenid empire than researchers who have analyzed the world power itself. Of course, there are good reasons for this situation. Greece is relatively close to western Eur ...
... Now it is remarkable that there have been more scholars who have studied the fuss and bustle on the northwestern border of the Achaemenid empire than researchers who have analyzed the world power itself. Of course, there are good reasons for this situation. Greece is relatively close to western Eur ...
Background Guide 1.1
... Piraeus. This is accomplished by Themistocles, who stalls Spartans long enough to erect walls. This arouses suspicions of Spartans who already fear Athenian democratic example and control of economically powerful Delian league. The Athenians’ contempt for Sparta’s institution and its treatment of th ...
... Piraeus. This is accomplished by Themistocles, who stalls Spartans long enough to erect walls. This arouses suspicions of Spartans who already fear Athenian democratic example and control of economically powerful Delian league. The Athenians’ contempt for Sparta’s institution and its treatment of th ...
Sparta VS. Athens Compare!and!Contrast!Classical!Sparta!and
... you!too!be!skeptical!toward!representatives!of!foreigners.!This!may!fortify!your! judgment,!but!it!puts!you!out!of!touch!with!foreign!affairs…Have!you!ever! thought!out!what…the!Athenians!are!like,!or!how!vastly!and!indeed!utterly,! they!differ!from!yourselves?!They!are!revolutionaries,!prompt!in!co ...
... you!too!be!skeptical!toward!representatives!of!foreigners.!This!may!fortify!your! judgment,!but!it!puts!you!out!of!touch!with!foreign!affairs…Have!you!ever! thought!out!what…the!Athenians!are!like,!or!how!vastly!and!indeed!utterly,! they!differ!from!yourselves?!They!are!revolutionaries,!prompt!in!co ...
here - Courtenay Young
... certainly another messenger was also sent to their nearest neighbours, the Plataeans, who had also not offered the “earth and water” tribute to the Persians. The Athenian courier, Pheidippides, arrived in Sparta in the first days of August, and whilst the Spartans, nominally allies with the other Gr ...
... certainly another messenger was also sent to their nearest neighbours, the Plataeans, who had also not offered the “earth and water” tribute to the Persians. The Athenian courier, Pheidippides, arrived in Sparta in the first days of August, and whilst the Spartans, nominally allies with the other Gr ...
netw rks
... Spartan women enjoyed more freedom than women in other city-states because the men were often away from home. Girls were trained in sports such as wrestling. The main role of women was to raise sons for the military. Sparta’s government was an oligarchy. Two kings ruled together, but had little powe ...
... Spartan women enjoyed more freedom than women in other city-states because the men were often away from home. Girls were trained in sports such as wrestling. The main role of women was to raise sons for the military. Sparta’s government was an oligarchy. Two kings ruled together, but had little powe ...
Greek Unit outline
... c. Greeks did learn how to do some metalwork from them, used to make weapons 2. Persians a. From the area of modern-day Iran b. Eventually fought and conquered Asia from Turkey to India (even Egypt at some points in time) c. Their expansion west brought them in contact with Greek islands d. Greeks d ...
... c. Greeks did learn how to do some metalwork from them, used to make weapons 2. Persians a. From the area of modern-day Iran b. Eventually fought and conquered Asia from Turkey to India (even Egypt at some points in time) c. Their expansion west brought them in contact with Greek islands d. Greeks d ...
2011 Greek Unit outline
... c. Greeks did learn how to do some metalwork from them, used to make weapons 2. Persians a. From the area of modern-day Iran b. Eventually fought and conquered Asia from Turkey to India (even Egypt at some points in time) c. Their expansion west brought them in contact with Greek islands d. Greeks d ...
... c. Greeks did learn how to do some metalwork from them, used to make weapons 2. Persians a. From the area of modern-day Iran b. Eventually fought and conquered Asia from Turkey to India (even Egypt at some points in time) c. Their expansion west brought them in contact with Greek islands d. Greeks d ...
early Roman history
... ¹³Irad Malkin was also talking about the relationship between early Rome and Greece when he remarked, at a recent colloquium (Institute of Classical Studies, June ), that ‘snobbery’ was a grossly underrated factor in history – ‘a superior culture persuades an inferior that to be significant it ...
... ¹³Irad Malkin was also talking about the relationship between early Rome and Greece when he remarked, at a recent colloquium (Institute of Classical Studies, June ), that ‘snobbery’ was a grossly underrated factor in history – ‘a superior culture persuades an inferior that to be significant it ...
The Battle of Marathon: The Stunning Victory
... wealth among its citizens; Themistocles, not trusting other Athenians to appreciate the proximity of the Persian threat, shrewdly—if not deviously— proposed instead “that with the money ships should be built to make war against the Æginetans, who were the most flourishing people in all Greece, and b ...
... wealth among its citizens; Themistocles, not trusting other Athenians to appreciate the proximity of the Persian threat, shrewdly—if not deviously— proposed instead “that with the money ships should be built to make war against the Æginetans, who were the most flourishing people in all Greece, and b ...
The Delian League: A Prelude to Empire and War
... during the years that followed 499 BC.3 The Persians attacked and destroyed Miletus, which further angered the Greeks.4 The mainland Greeks had always considered the Ionians as Greeks, as Greek settlers had colonized the region in ancient times. The Greeks considered the subjugation of Ionia as a di ...
... during the years that followed 499 BC.3 The Persians attacked and destroyed Miletus, which further angered the Greeks.4 The mainland Greeks had always considered the Ionians as Greeks, as Greek settlers had colonized the region in ancient times. The Greeks considered the subjugation of Ionia as a di ...
Miss Farrell Welcomes you to South Pointe M.S. 6th Grade
... • Manufacturing also done by helots • Spartan men lived off the work of others so that they could devote their entire life to being a soldier ...
... • Manufacturing also done by helots • Spartan men lived off the work of others so that they could devote their entire life to being a soldier ...
Holy Salamis (September 480 BC)
... of thousands of Persian marauders—enemies that the Athenians had slaughtered just ten years earlier at Marathon? News had come suddenly this late summer to the once hopeful Athenians that the last-ditch Hellenic defense, eighty-five miles away at the pass of Thermopylae—the final gateway from the no ...
... of thousands of Persian marauders—enemies that the Athenians had slaughtered just ten years earlier at Marathon? News had come suddenly this late summer to the once hopeful Athenians that the last-ditch Hellenic defense, eighty-five miles away at the pass of Thermopylae—the final gateway from the no ...
Ancient Greece 1
... Spartan women enjoyed more freedom than women in other city-states because the men were often away from home. Girls were trained in sports such as wrestling. The main role of women was to raise sons for the military. Sparta’s government was an oligarchy. Two kings ruled together, but had little powe ...
... Spartan women enjoyed more freedom than women in other city-states because the men were often away from home. Girls were trained in sports such as wrestling. The main role of women was to raise sons for the military. Sparta’s government was an oligarchy. Two kings ruled together, but had little powe ...
WHICh5Sec3SpartaAthens-2016 - Alabama School of Fine Arts
... About Age 20-30 • Officially joined the army • Became members of a “mess” – a group that ate, lived ...
... About Age 20-30 • Officially joined the army • Became members of a “mess” – a group that ate, lived ...
How does geography influence the way people live?
... a few tyrants gave the word tyranny its current meaning; that is, rule by a cruel and unjust person. The common people of Greece supported the tyrants when they overthrew the nobles during the 600s B.C. Tyrants also gained support from the hoplites, or citizen soldiers, in the army. Tyrants strength ...
... a few tyrants gave the word tyranny its current meaning; that is, rule by a cruel and unjust person. The common people of Greece supported the tyrants when they overthrew the nobles during the 600s B.C. Tyrants also gained support from the hoplites, or citizen soldiers, in the army. Tyrants strength ...
Which School Would You Rather Attend
... could include drama, public speaking, government, art, or math. They studied from the age of 6 until the age of 18, until they went off to do military service. After this time, the men were good citizens – they were ready for both peace and war. Girls were not allowed to get a public education. If t ...
... could include drama, public speaking, government, art, or math. They studied from the age of 6 until the age of 18, until they went off to do military service. After this time, the men were good citizens – they were ready for both peace and war. Girls were not allowed to get a public education. If t ...
Ben KING The Choice of Athens (Herodotus, Histories 7.139) In the
... fundamental problem for many interpretations of the Histories. It is often asserted that Herodotus had a deterministic view of history and that, in particular, Herodotus saw the defeat of Xerxes as inevitable, the conclusion to a quasi-natural process regulated by divine or natural forces (see, e.g. ...
... fundamental problem for many interpretations of the Histories. It is often asserted that Herodotus had a deterministic view of history and that, in particular, Herodotus saw the defeat of Xerxes as inevitable, the conclusion to a quasi-natural process regulated by divine or natural forces (see, e.g. ...
Athens and Sparta - Jacqueline Firestone
... the drachma, allowing the growing mercantile class to elevate themselves in the aristocratic system. He also expanded this system to include four distinct class of the aristocracy, and ultimately the idea of citizenship to one of participation. Solon’s reforms were not only for existing Athenian’s. ...
... the drachma, allowing the growing mercantile class to elevate themselves in the aristocratic system. He also expanded this system to include four distinct class of the aristocracy, and ultimately the idea of citizenship to one of participation. Solon’s reforms were not only for existing Athenian’s. ...