the hellenic league of 480 bc -fact or ideological fiction?
... new sentence, beginning [J.E:1:et OE: nuv6cx.v6[J.E:VOL, may well denote an interval of time between the peace treaties and the next plans (to reconnoitre enemy resources and to seek aid from the neutral states), but in its immediate context it suggests that all the steps were discussed and decided ...
... new sentence, beginning [J.E:1:et OE: nuv6cx.v6[J.E:VOL, may well denote an interval of time between the peace treaties and the next plans (to reconnoitre enemy resources and to seek aid from the neutral states), but in its immediate context it suggests that all the steps were discussed and decided ...
Ancient Greece Paper 2 Final Draft
... they needed to band together to form a military alliance if the Persians decided to return to Greece. The Greek city-states banded together to form the Delian League in order to build a military force powerful enough to stop another Persian invasion. 21 The League was created with the goals of liber ...
... they needed to band together to form a military alliance if the Persians decided to return to Greece. The Greek city-states banded together to form the Delian League in order to build a military force powerful enough to stop another Persian invasion. 21 The League was created with the goals of liber ...
The Periklean Age
... formed the island and attacked them by land. The Athenians, who had burned their ships, were forced to capitulate. The Persians killed them all, except a few soldiers, who escaped to Kyrene. Without knowledge of the events, fifty Athenian ships which came for help, they were defeated and almost all ...
... formed the island and attacked them by land. The Athenians, who had burned their ships, were forced to capitulate. The Persians killed them all, except a few soldiers, who escaped to Kyrene. Without knowledge of the events, fifty Athenian ships which came for help, they were defeated and almost all ...
Pericles and Athenian Imperialism
... evidence. A number of decrees testifying to the growing imperialism of Athens have been found, but it has not been possible to date them precisely, on account of their lamentable state of preservation. While most epigraphists place the date of their engraving between 450 and 440, some specialists de ...
... evidence. A number of decrees testifying to the growing imperialism of Athens have been found, but it has not been possible to date them precisely, on account of their lamentable state of preservation. While most epigraphists place the date of their engraving between 450 and 440, some specialists de ...
Thucydides and Xenophon: Political Historians of Ancient Greece
... As stated above, Thucydides had a largely political motive for writing his history. This dimension has been clearly described by M.I. Finley: Politics, like philosophy, was a Greek 'invention'. Never before, at least in the west, had there been a society in which ordinary men, lacking either inherit ...
... As stated above, Thucydides had a largely political motive for writing his history. This dimension has been clearly described by M.I. Finley: Politics, like philosophy, was a Greek 'invention'. Never before, at least in the west, had there been a society in which ordinary men, lacking either inherit ...
COMPELLENCE
... Melians parrott back the rebuttals they Athenians made to the Persians. The deeper argument here, which first surfaces in the Corcyraean-Corinthian debate in Book I, pertains to the most efficacious strategies of conflict management. For Thucydides, Athens’ great mistake was to remove itself from th ...
... Melians parrott back the rebuttals they Athenians made to the Persians. The deeper argument here, which first surfaces in the Corcyraean-Corinthian debate in Book I, pertains to the most efficacious strategies of conflict management. For Thucydides, Athens’ great mistake was to remove itself from th ...
Chapter 29: The Golden Age of Athens
... held public office. Poor men who could not afford to leave their jobs and farms to serve in public office could now do so. ...
... held public office. Poor men who could not afford to leave their jobs and farms to serve in public office could now do so. ...
democracy and aristocracy in ancient athens
... upon their followers (hetairoi).14 According to Aristotle’s Politics in oligarchies ‘the magistrates . . . are filled from high property-grades or from political clubs (hetairon)’.15 Perhaps the Athenian constitution before Solon which was ‘in all respects oligarchic’ could be an example of this.16 ...
... upon their followers (hetairoi).14 According to Aristotle’s Politics in oligarchies ‘the magistrates . . . are filled from high property-grades or from political clubs (hetairon)’.15 Perhaps the Athenian constitution before Solon which was ‘in all respects oligarchic’ could be an example of this.16 ...
PYLOS AND SPHACTERIA 425 BC
... force from operations against Persian interests in Cyprus to support a revolt against Persian rule in Egypt. Artaxerxes, the Great King, tried without success to use Persian gold to persuade the Spartans to invade Attica to make the Athenians withdraw from Egypt. The Corinthians saw the Athenians’ h ...
... force from operations against Persian interests in Cyprus to support a revolt against Persian rule in Egypt. Artaxerxes, the Great King, tried without success to use Persian gold to persuade the Spartans to invade Attica to make the Athenians withdraw from Egypt. The Corinthians saw the Athenians’ h ...
Delian League
... Greek city-state known as Sparta, has chosen to form its own league with its own city-states. This opposing league is called the Peloponnesian League. Sparta believes that simply the liberation of mainland Greece was needed to secure the safety of Greek borders, but that long-term security against t ...
... Greek city-state known as Sparta, has chosen to form its own league with its own city-states. This opposing league is called the Peloponnesian League. Sparta believes that simply the liberation of mainland Greece was needed to secure the safety of Greek borders, but that long-term security against t ...
Athenian Religion and The Peloponnesian War - Beck-Shop
... Thucydides leaves it unsaid why Apollo should have been so eager to aid Sparta. The explanation that comes most readily to the mind of a modern reader (that the staff at Delphi, like the majority of Greeks, was confident of a Spartan victory)14 is not the one that would have had resonance with Atheni ...
... Thucydides leaves it unsaid why Apollo should have been so eager to aid Sparta. The explanation that comes most readily to the mind of a modern reader (that the staff at Delphi, like the majority of Greeks, was confident of a Spartan victory)14 is not the one that would have had resonance with Atheni ...
Athenian Religion and The Peloponnesian War - Assets
... Thucydides leaves it unsaid why Apollo should have been so eager to aid Sparta. The explanation that comes most readily to the mind of a modern reader (that the staff at Delphi, like the majority of Greeks, was confident of a Spartan victory)14 is not the one that would have had resonance with Atheni ...
... Thucydides leaves it unsaid why Apollo should have been so eager to aid Sparta. The explanation that comes most readily to the mind of a modern reader (that the staff at Delphi, like the majority of Greeks, was confident of a Spartan victory)14 is not the one that would have had resonance with Atheni ...
Complete Teaching Unit PDF Format - World History for Us All
... Sparta declined but Athens sent twenty ships. The Ionians were able to conquer Sardis (today, in Turkey) but were eventually defeated by the Persians. King Darius showed mercy towards the Ionians and did not punish them. The Athenians, however, needed to be taught a lesson not to interfere. King Dar ...
... Sparta declined but Athens sent twenty ships. The Ionians were able to conquer Sardis (today, in Turkey) but were eventually defeated by the Persians. King Darius showed mercy towards the Ionians and did not punish them. The Athenians, however, needed to be taught a lesson not to interfere. King Dar ...
Active Reading Note-Taking Guide
... nomads because they had to move from place to place to find food. Empire (Ch. 1): Persia conquered many lands to build its great empire. p. 80 ...
... nomads because they had to move from place to place to find food. Empire (Ch. 1): Persia conquered many lands to build its great empire. p. 80 ...
J. C. TREVETT
... NIKIAS AND SYRACUSE Diodorus Siculus provides a long account of the debate at Syracuse on the treatment of the Athenians who were captured in 413 (13.19.4-33.1). One of his speakers, Nikolaos, in the course of arguing that Nikias should be spared, states that he was the Syracusan proxenos at Athens, ...
... NIKIAS AND SYRACUSE Diodorus Siculus provides a long account of the debate at Syracuse on the treatment of the Athenians who were captured in 413 (13.19.4-33.1). One of his speakers, Nikolaos, in the course of arguing that Nikias should be spared, states that he was the Syracusan proxenos at Athens, ...
300 - Thermopylae and Rise of an Empire
... When Themistocles urged the Athenians to spend their new-found wealth (from silver) on ships, the people took his advice. They built light, fast vessels known as triremes. This image depicts how those ships likely appeared. Illustration online, courtesy EDSITEment! When the Athenians learned what ha ...
... When Themistocles urged the Athenians to spend their new-found wealth (from silver) on ships, the people took his advice. They built light, fast vessels known as triremes. This image depicts how those ships likely appeared. Illustration online, courtesy EDSITEment! When the Athenians learned what ha ...
Democracy Does not value art and music Delian
... make a big offensive move against Sparta as this could throw off the power of democracy. • Therefore the small attacks they lead on the city states allied with Sparta had little affect to them. ...
... make a big offensive move against Sparta as this could throw off the power of democracy. • Therefore the small attacks they lead on the city states allied with Sparta had little affect to them. ...
Transformation of the `Delian League` into the Athenian empire
... In 449BC the Peace of Callias (a peace treaty) was made between Athens and Persia. Although this meant that the original aim of the League had been met, the Athenians argued that the Persians would strike again if the Greeks appeared weak By 450BC most of the allies were subjects of Athens The ...
... In 449BC the Peace of Callias (a peace treaty) was made between Athens and Persia. Although this meant that the original aim of the League had been met, the Athenians argued that the Persians would strike again if the Greeks appeared weak By 450BC most of the allies were subjects of Athens The ...
2013.07.09w Krentz on Cartledge, After Thermopylae
... Paul Cartledge tackles the challenge of “paying due homage to the Battle of Plataea as a key and pivotal moment not just in ancient or classical Greek history but in all Western history.” There could hardly be a better person for the job: Cartledge has established himself as an excellent scholar who ...
... Paul Cartledge tackles the challenge of “paying due homage to the Battle of Plataea as a key and pivotal moment not just in ancient or classical Greek history but in all Western history.” There could hardly be a better person for the job: Cartledge has established himself as an excellent scholar who ...
Athenian War Council: The Peloponnesian War
... Sparta became a Hellenic power not due to culture or trade – which were minimal – but due to its military might. Spartan power was truly recognized during the Messenian Wars in the second half of the 8th Century BCE, in which the Spartans conquered the Messenians and enslaved them. 4 Renamed the Hel ...
... Sparta became a Hellenic power not due to culture or trade – which were minimal – but due to its military might. Spartan power was truly recognized during the Messenian Wars in the second half of the 8th Century BCE, in which the Spartans conquered the Messenians and enslaved them. 4 Renamed the Hel ...
Chapter 4, Section 2 Sparta and Athens
... nomads because they had to move from place to place to find food. Empire (Ch. 1): Persia conquered many lands to build its great empire. p. 80 ...
... nomads because they had to move from place to place to find food. Empire (Ch. 1): Persia conquered many lands to build its great empire. p. 80 ...
Chapter 4: The Ancient Greeks
... Gradually, people began to farm again and to produce surplus food. As a result, trade revived. One benefit of the increased trade was a new way of writing. As you read in Chapter 3, the Greeks picked up the idea of an alphabet from the Phoenicians, one of their trading partners who lived on the coas ...
... Gradually, people began to farm again and to produce surplus food. As a result, trade revived. One benefit of the increased trade was a new way of writing. As you read in Chapter 3, the Greeks picked up the idea of an alphabet from the Phoenicians, one of their trading partners who lived on the coas ...
Chapter 7 Ancient Greece
... Age were not all bad, however. One positive development was a huge population shift. Thousands of Greeks left the mainland and settled on islands in the Aegean Sea. Other Greeks moved to the western shores of Asia Minor, to what is now the country of Turkey. This wave of movement expanded the reach ...
... Age were not all bad, however. One positive development was a huge population shift. Thousands of Greeks left the mainland and settled on islands in the Aegean Sea. Other Greeks moved to the western shores of Asia Minor, to what is now the country of Turkey. This wave of movement expanded the reach ...
Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
... Age were not all bad, however. One positive development was a huge population shift. Thousands of Greeks left the mainland and settled on islands in the Aegean Sea. Other Greeks moved to the western shores of Asia Minor, to what is now the country of Turkey. This wave of movement expanded the reach ...
... Age were not all bad, however. One positive development was a huge population shift. Thousands of Greeks left the mainland and settled on islands in the Aegean Sea. Other Greeks moved to the western shores of Asia Minor, to what is now the country of Turkey. This wave of movement expanded the reach ...
Chapter 4: The Ancient Greeks
... Gradually, people began to farm again and to produce surplus food. As a result, trade revived. One benefit of the increased trade was a new way of writing. As you read in Chapter 3, the Greeks picked up the idea of an alphabet from the Phoenicians, one of their trading partners who lived on the coas ...
... Gradually, people began to farm again and to produce surplus food. As a result, trade revived. One benefit of the increased trade was a new way of writing. As you read in Chapter 3, the Greeks picked up the idea of an alphabet from the Phoenicians, one of their trading partners who lived on the coas ...
Battle of the Eurymedon
The Battle of the Eurymedon was a double battle, taking place both on water and land, between the Delian League of Athens and her Allies, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. It took place in either 469 or 466 BC, in the vicinity of the mouth of the Eurymedon River (now the Köprüçay) in Pamphylia, Asia Minor. It forms part of the Wars of the Delian League, itself part of the larger Greco-Persian Wars.The Delian League had been formed between Athens and many of the city-states of the Aegean to continue the war with Persia, which had begun with the first and second Persian invasions of Greece (492–490 and 480–479 BC, respectively). In the aftermath of the Battles of Plataea and Mycale, which had ended the second invasion, the Greek Allies had taken the offensive, besieging the cities of Sestos and Byzantium. The Delian League then took over responsibility for the war, and continued to attack Persian bases in the Aegean throughout the next decade. In either 469 or 466 BC, the Persians began assembling a large army and navy for a major offensive against the Greeks. Gathering near the Eurymedon, it is possible that the expedition aimed to move up the coast of Asia Minor, capturing each city in turn. This would bring the Asiatic Greek regions back under Persian control, and give the Persians naval bases from which to launch further expeditions into the Aegean. Hearing of the Persian preparations, the Athenian general Cimon took 200 triremes and sailed to Phaselis in Pamphylia, which eventually agreed to join the Delian League. This effectively blocked the Persian strategy at its first objective.Cimon then moved to pre-emptively attack the Persian forces near the Eurymedon. Sailing into the mouth of the river, Cimon quickly routed the Persian fleet gathered there. Most of the Persian fleet made land-fall, and the sailors fled to the shelter of the Persian army. Cimon then landed the Greek marines and proceeded to attack the Persian army, which was also routed. The Greeks captured the Persian camp, taking many prisoners, and were able to destroy 200 beached Persian triremes. This stunning double victory seems to have greatly demoralised the Persians, and prevented any further Persian campaigning in the Aegean until at least 451 BC. However, the Delian League do not appear to have pressed home their advantage, probably because of other events in the Greek world that required their attention.