History of the Peloponnesian War
... across their middles; and it is but a few years since that the practice ceased. To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes for boxing and wrestling are offered, belts are worn by the combatants. And there are many other points in which a likeness might be shown between ...
... across their middles; and it is but a few years since that the practice ceased. To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes for boxing and wrestling are offered, belts are worn by the combatants. And there are many other points in which a likeness might be shown between ...
The Peloponnesian War
... made itself the leading kingdom of the Near East, and its conquests had extended to Asia Minor, including the Greek cities on the Aegean coast. In the 490s those cities had risen against Persia in the Ionian Revolt. They appealed for help to the mainland Greeks, and Sparta declined to help but Athen ...
... made itself the leading kingdom of the Near East, and its conquests had extended to Asia Minor, including the Greek cities on the Aegean coast. In the 490s those cities had risen against Persia in the Ionian Revolt. They appealed for help to the mainland Greeks, and Sparta declined to help but Athen ...
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... be found in the life of mankind; for no thing which we consider to be good is ever found to have been given to human beings unadulterated, nor is there any evil in an absolute form without some admixture of advantage. Proofs of this will be obtained if we give thought to the events of the past, espe ...
... be found in the life of mankind; for no thing which we consider to be good is ever found to have been given to human beings unadulterated, nor is there any evil in an absolute form without some admixture of advantage. Proofs of this will be obtained if we give thought to the events of the past, espe ...
the pdf - Open Collections
... "This Croesus was the f i r s t of the barbarians of whom we know to have reduced certain of the Greeks to the position of tributaries, and to have made friendly alliances with others. He subdued the Ionians, Aeolians, and Dorians who were i n Asia and made friends with the Lacedaemonians* Before th ...
... "This Croesus was the f i r s t of the barbarians of whom we know to have reduced certain of the Greeks to the position of tributaries, and to have made friendly alliances with others. He subdued the Ionians, Aeolians, and Dorians who were i n Asia and made friends with the Lacedaemonians* Before th ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall - University of Macau Library
... Influence of Themistocles increases.--The Silver--mines of Laurion.--Their Product applied by Themistocles to the Increase of the Navy.--New Direction given to the National Character. IV The Preparations of Darius.--Revolt of Egypt.--Dispute for The Succession to the Persian Throne.--Death of Darius ...
... Influence of Themistocles increases.--The Silver--mines of Laurion.--Their Product applied by Themistocles to the Increase of the Navy.--New Direction given to the National Character. IV The Preparations of Darius.--Revolt of Egypt.--Dispute for The Succession to the Persian Throne.--Death of Darius ...
Περίληψη : Άλλες Ονομασίες Γεωγραφική Θέση Ιστορική Περιοχή
... Macedonian state. After his death, a war broke out between his successors over his dominions. In 319 BC, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of Alexander’s generals, became governor of Asia Minor and later proclaimed himself a king. In the same period, Abydus joined a league, probably founded by Antigonu ...
... Macedonian state. After his death, a war broke out between his successors over his dominions. In 319 BC, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of Alexander’s generals, became governor of Asia Minor and later proclaimed himself a king. In the same period, Abydus joined a league, probably founded by Antigonu ...
reading the rise of pisistratus: herodotus
... anny and a series of conventional deceptions. He takes advantage of the stasis to perpetrate his first conventional deception and achieve his first tyranny - pretending that his enemies have wounded him, asking for bodyguards, and then seizing the acropolis with them. He is driven out by the coaliti ...
... anny and a series of conventional deceptions. He takes advantage of the stasis to perpetrate his first conventional deception and achieve his first tyranny - pretending that his enemies have wounded him, asking for bodyguards, and then seizing the acropolis with them. He is driven out by the coaliti ...
Problems in Athenian Democracy 510-480 BC
... Our richest source is Aristotle, or whoever wrote the Athenaion Politeia that goes under his name. scopes the events of the period. ...
... Our richest source is Aristotle, or whoever wrote the Athenaion Politeia that goes under his name. scopes the events of the period. ...
Plutarch`s Themistocles
... the sea; and Themistocles thus was more easily able to persuade them, avoiding all mention of danger from Darius or the Persians, who were at a great distance, and their coming very uncertain, and at that time not much to be feared; but by a seasonable employment of the emulation and anger felt by t ...
... the sea; and Themistocles thus was more easily able to persuade them, avoiding all mention of danger from Darius or the Persians, who were at a great distance, and their coming very uncertain, and at that time not much to be feared; but by a seasonable employment of the emulation and anger felt by t ...
Τύχη: Fortune, Fate and Chance in Herodotus and Thucydides
... For Herodotus, however, many of the characters in his histories are prone to speak of “τύχη” as luck. When Croesus and Solon speak of happiness and the happiest man, Solon proves that many have been “unlucky” while rich and those with modest means have been much happier.21 Here, the fortune that he ...
... For Herodotus, however, many of the characters in his histories are prone to speak of “τύχη” as luck. When Croesus and Solon speak of happiness and the happiest man, Solon proves that many have been “unlucky” while rich and those with modest means have been much happier.21 Here, the fortune that he ...
Ethnography and Empire: Homer and the Hippocratics in Herodotus
... object of it, and on a meta-level between the inquiries that form the plot of the logos and those that his Histories themselves constitute. The Desire to Know That Cambyses’ curiosity about Ethiopia is little more than an appetiser for conquest is clear from the outset. The first lines of chapter ...
... object of it, and on a meta-level between the inquiries that form the plot of the logos and those that his Histories themselves constitute. The Desire to Know That Cambyses’ curiosity about Ethiopia is little more than an appetiser for conquest is clear from the outset. The first lines of chapter ...
Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies
... Having reached his ultimate destination at Elephantine, Herodotus returned north to see a few more sites in lower Egypt. He was apparently not in much of a hurry to return to Halikarnassos, either because traveling had become habitual or because he knew that he would not like it when he got there. S ...
... Having reached his ultimate destination at Elephantine, Herodotus returned north to see a few more sites in lower Egypt. He was apparently not in much of a hurry to return to Halikarnassos, either because traveling had become habitual or because he knew that he would not like it when he got there. S ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
... Surrenders.--Breach between the Athenians and Spartans.-Constitutional Innovations at Athens.--Ostracism of Cimon. IV War between Megara and Corinth.--Megara and Pegae garrisoned by Athenians.--Review of Affairs at the Persian Court.-Accession of Artaxerxes.--Revolt of Egypt under Inarus.-Athenian E ...
... Surrenders.--Breach between the Athenians and Spartans.-Constitutional Innovations at Athens.--Ostracism of Cimon. IV War between Megara and Corinth.--Megara and Pegae garrisoned by Athenians.--Review of Affairs at the Persian Court.-Accession of Artaxerxes.--Revolt of Egypt under Inarus.-Athenian E ...
Puppets of the Barbarian: How Persia controlled Greek relations
... enquire into the remote past rather than simply account contemporaneous events. ...
... enquire into the remote past rather than simply account contemporaneous events. ...
CHIRPING LIKE THE SWALLOWS: ARISTOPHANES
... that an average Athenian citizen was not: namely, one who lacked culture, sophistication, and refinement. In the minds of many Athenians, the imagined “Other” and their real-world counterparts were likely identical, despite the fact that the imagined “Other” was never realized in an actual Persian, ...
... that an average Athenian citizen was not: namely, one who lacked culture, sophistication, and refinement. In the minds of many Athenians, the imagined “Other” and their real-world counterparts were likely identical, despite the fact that the imagined “Other” was never realized in an actual Persian, ...
Coping with a new Situation - Utrecht University Repository
... diplomatic, ritualised friendships. According to G. Herman, these friendships were created between persons of high birth, who ‘originated from different, and at times, drastically dissimilar social systems, and who had no previous record of social intercourse’.1 Once a friendship was established, th ...
... diplomatic, ritualised friendships. According to G. Herman, these friendships were created between persons of high birth, who ‘originated from different, and at times, drastically dissimilar social systems, and who had no previous record of social intercourse’.1 Once a friendship was established, th ...
table of content - Franz Steiner Verlag
... The Battle and Its Controversies............................................................. 91 Conon and the Peloponnesian War: Some Final Remarks........................... 93 Chapter Three. Conon in Asia, I. From ‘Private Citizen’ to Persian Admiral............................................... ...
... The Battle and Its Controversies............................................................. 91 Conon and the Peloponnesian War: Some Final Remarks........................... 93 Chapter Three. Conon in Asia, I. From ‘Private Citizen’ to Persian Admiral............................................... ...
The Constitutional Debate in Herodotus
... the Politics (.–), both of whom subjected the concept to philosophical rigour and theory. Plato argues that a mixed constitution provides a space for stability, intelligence, and freedom in government, and Aristotle claims that it provides stability. The practice of the mixed constitution, howeve ...
... the Politics (.–), both of whom subjected the concept to philosophical rigour and theory. Plato argues that a mixed constitution provides a space for stability, intelligence, and freedom in government, and Aristotle claims that it provides stability. The practice of the mixed constitution, howeve ...
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... the discovery of fhe bones of the legendary Theseus which were recovered and returned to Athens. Plutarch comments that under Kimon the Athenians carried the war into their enemies' country and won new colonial teritory. (4) Kimon's greatest military achievement was his campaign at Eurymedon in Asia ...
... the discovery of fhe bones of the legendary Theseus which were recovered and returned to Athens. Plutarch comments that under Kimon the Athenians carried the war into their enemies' country and won new colonial teritory. (4) Kimon's greatest military achievement was his campaign at Eurymedon in Asia ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV.
... of a yet more deadly and implacable foe than the Persian king, and laid the foundation of that claim of equality with the most eminent state of Greece, which he hastened to strengthen and enlarge. The ardour of the Athenians in their work of fortification had spared no material which had the recomme ...
... of a yet more deadly and implacable foe than the Persian king, and laid the foundation of that claim of equality with the most eminent state of Greece, which he hastened to strengthen and enlarge. The ardour of the Athenians in their work of fortification had spared no material which had the recomme ...
The Pheidippides Legend
... seventeenth? Yes, yes, September 17. He had almost lost track of time, but yesterday had been the sixteenth, when he had arrived back at the battle site. The days before were a horrible blur. Only five days ago, he had been selected to run to Sparta to request aid against the Persians. It had been a ...
... seventeenth? Yes, yes, September 17. He had almost lost track of time, but yesterday had been the sixteenth, when he had arrived back at the battle site. The days before were a horrible blur. Only five days ago, he had been selected to run to Sparta to request aid against the Persians. It had been a ...
GUERBER Story of the Greeks
... changed by every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At last they were so changed that no one could tell where the truth ended and fancy began. The beginning of Greek history is therefore like a fairy tale; and while much of it cannot, of course, be true, it is the only info ...
... changed by every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At last they were so changed that no one could tell where the truth ended and fancy began. The beginning of Greek history is therefore like a fairy tale; and while much of it cannot, of course, be true, it is the only info ...
scenario book
... he battle of Marathon is considered one of the decisive battles in history yet it is shrouded in myth with most facts based on logic, conjecture, and fantasy. Herodotus’ account of the battle is the only complete period account with all other data being supplied by archaeology and document fragments ...
... he battle of Marathon is considered one of the decisive battles in history yet it is shrouded in myth with most facts based on logic, conjecture, and fantasy. Herodotus’ account of the battle is the only complete period account with all other data being supplied by archaeology and document fragments ...
from athens to alexander
... Alexander's startling conquest by emphasising the young conqueror's lack of foresight in establishing a clear succession, a lapse that meant his successor Generals would kill more of each other's armies than were lost to the Persians during Alexander's initial conquest. The Osprey survey of classica ...
... Alexander's startling conquest by emphasising the young conqueror's lack of foresight in establishing a clear succession, a lapse that meant his successor Generals would kill more of each other's armies than were lost to the Persians during Alexander's initial conquest. The Osprey survey of classica ...
Helen`s Autopsy: A Forensic Approach to Myth in
... status that yielded a new line of narrative about Helen, removing her blame for abandoning her home and family and starting a war, and remembering her instead as the daughter of Zeus, the world’s most beautiful woman and Sparta’s greatest queen. Writers in the 5th century began mentioning a second, ...
... status that yielded a new line of narrative about Helen, removing her blame for abandoning her home and family and starting a war, and remembering her instead as the daughter of Zeus, the world’s most beautiful woman and Sparta’s greatest queen. Writers in the 5th century began mentioning a second, ...
Second Persian invasion of Greece
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece. After Darius's death, his son Xerxes spent several years planning for the second invasion, mustering an enormous army and navy. The Athenians and Spartans led the Greek resistance, with some 70 city-states joining the 'Allied' effort. However, most of the Greek cities remained neutral or submitted to Xerxes.The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly. The Persian advance was blocked at the pass of Thermopylae by a small Allied force under King Leonidas I of Sparta; simultaneously, the Persian fleet was blocked by an Allied fleet at the straits of Artemisium. At the famous Battle of Thermopylae, the Allied army held back the Persian army for seven days, before they were outflanked by a mountain path and the Allied rearguard was trapped in the pass and annihilated. The Allied fleet had also withstood two days of Persian attacks at the Battle of Artemisium, but when news reached them of the disaster at Thermopylae, they withdrew to Salamis.After Thermopylae, all of Boeotia and Attica fell to the Persian army, who captured and burnt Athens. However, a larger Allied army fortified the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, protecting the Peloponnesus from Persian conquest. Both sides thus sought a naval victory that might decisively alter the course of the war. The Athenian general Themistocles succeeded in luring the Persian navy into the narrow Straits of Salamis, where the huge number of Persian ships became disorganised, and were soundly beaten by the Allied fleet. The Allied victory at Salamis prevented a quick conclusion to the invasion, and fearing becoming trapped in Europe, Xerxes retreated to Asia leaving his general Mardonius to finish the conquest with the elite of the army.The following spring, the Allies assembled the largest ever hoplite army, and marched north from the isthmus to confront Mardonius. At the ensuing Battle of Plataea, the Greek infantry again proved its superiority, inflicting a severe defeat on the Persians, killing Mardonius in the process. On the same day, across the Aegean Sea an Allied navy destroyed the remnants of the Persian navy at the Battle of Mycale. With this double defeat, the invasion was ended, and Persian power in the Aegean severely dented. The Greeks would now move to the offensive, eventually expelling the Persians from Europe, the Aegean islands and Ionia before the war finally came to an end in 479 BC.