Thucydides and Civil War: the Case of Alcibiades
... least by conquering other Greeks. “We have no need of Homer’s praises. . ., everywhere we have established eternal monuments of goods and evils” (2.61.4, 63.2; 2.41.4). There are similar impulses in Syracuse, despite its defensive posture. Hermocrates, the Syracusan Churchill, says that should Syrac ...
... least by conquering other Greeks. “We have no need of Homer’s praises. . ., everywhere we have established eternal monuments of goods and evils” (2.61.4, 63.2; 2.41.4). There are similar impulses in Syracuse, despite its defensive posture. Hermocrates, the Syracusan Churchill, says that should Syrac ...
World History: Patterns of Interaction
... • Greeks are divided; many stay neutral or side with Persians • Greek forces hold Thermopylae for three days before retreating • Athenians defeat Persians at sea, near island of Salamis • Victories at Salamis and Plataea force Persian retreat • Many city-states form Delian League and continue to fig ...
... • Greeks are divided; many stay neutral or side with Persians • Greek forces hold Thermopylae for three days before retreating • Athenians defeat Persians at sea, near island of Salamis • Victories at Salamis and Plataea force Persian retreat • Many city-states form Delian League and continue to fig ...
democracy and aristocracy in ancient athens
... 2010). But there could be one important change, in that from the middle of the fifth century new priesthoods were not hereditary in particular gene but were open to all qualified Athenians (S. D. Lambert, ‘A Polis and Its Priests: Athenian Priesthoods Before and After Pericles’ Citizenship Law’, His ...
... 2010). But there could be one important change, in that from the middle of the fifth century new priesthoods were not hereditary in particular gene but were open to all qualified Athenians (S. D. Lambert, ‘A Polis and Its Priests: Athenian Priesthoods Before and After Pericles’ Citizenship Law’, His ...
Athenian Wheat-Tsars: Black Sea Grain and Elite Culture
... The origin of these ideas is to be viewed in the context of direct Atheno-Bosporan interaction. Our sources allow us to trace this back no further than the end of the Peloponnesian War, when Satyros successfully seized Nymphaion from Athenian control (Aeschin. 3.171‑172).18 Instead of treachery by G ...
... The origin of these ideas is to be viewed in the context of direct Atheno-Bosporan interaction. Our sources allow us to trace this back no further than the end of the Peloponnesian War, when Satyros successfully seized Nymphaion from Athenian control (Aeschin. 3.171‑172).18 Instead of treachery by G ...
Socrates the man
... told to destroy the city’s fortifications, take hostages, and attempt to suppress any revolt in the area. By the time the Athenian fleet arrived in the north, however, Potidaea had already joined a number of other cities and revolted against Athens. Corinth, too, made preparations to send an army in ...
... told to destroy the city’s fortifications, take hostages, and attempt to suppress any revolt in the area. By the time the Athenian fleet arrived in the north, however, Potidaea had already joined a number of other cities and revolted against Athens. Corinth, too, made preparations to send an army in ...
The Role of Greek Cavalry on the Battlefield: A Study of
... draw.12 That night the Thessalian cavalry hit the Athenian supply train, which drew the Athenian hoplites out for a second round of fighting.13 The Spartans then came up and the ensuing fight ended as a draw.14 Thucydides, however, who also provides an account of the battle in his summary of the Fir ...
... draw.12 That night the Thessalian cavalry hit the Athenian supply train, which drew the Athenian hoplites out for a second round of fighting.13 The Spartans then came up and the ensuing fight ended as a draw.14 Thucydides, however, who also provides an account of the battle in his summary of the Fir ...
Oedipus--The Dr. Philanakalis Program`s
... Much of the myth of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. The main character of the tragedy is Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta. After Laius learned from an oracle that "he was doomed/To perish by the hand of his own son," Jocasta ordered a messenger to leav ...
... Much of the myth of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. The main character of the tragedy is Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta. After Laius learned from an oracle that "he was doomed/To perish by the hand of his own son," Jocasta ordered a messenger to leav ...
Doryanthes AUGUST 2011
... No doubt, the disgrace of Miltiades in 489 (Hdt., 6.135; Nepos, Miltiades, 7) had an adverse effect on the renown of Marathon. However, there would be other memorials to the battle. These result from a concerted program of Cimon’s to assert the glory of Marathon and, hence, rehabilitate the reputat ...
... No doubt, the disgrace of Miltiades in 489 (Hdt., 6.135; Nepos, Miltiades, 7) had an adverse effect on the renown of Marathon. However, there would be other memorials to the battle. These result from a concerted program of Cimon’s to assert the glory of Marathon and, hence, rehabilitate the reputat ...
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... of the day, the contest for Agariste was open only to Hellenes, whose intentions, according to Herodotus, were once again fueled by their shared Greekness. Foreign suitors were deliberately excluded from the circle of Cleisthenes’ potential sons-in-law. The term foreign, therefore, merely follows En ...
... of the day, the contest for Agariste was open only to Hellenes, whose intentions, according to Herodotus, were once again fueled by their shared Greekness. Foreign suitors were deliberately excluded from the circle of Cleisthenes’ potential sons-in-law. The term foreign, therefore, merely follows En ...
6.3 Solon`s Reform
... E. He also thought that citizens should sue one another, and he encouraged them to sue, to bring charges and accusations both civil and criminal, on the idea that this is how you learn to use power, how you made magistrates (地方法官, 治安官) afraid of ordinary citizen, by bringing them upon charges, and s ...
... E. He also thought that citizens should sue one another, and he encouraged them to sue, to bring charges and accusations both civil and criminal, on the idea that this is how you learn to use power, how you made magistrates (地方法官, 治安官) afraid of ordinary citizen, by bringing them upon charges, and s ...
Divine Deliverance A New Look at Euripidean Tragedy
... metaphorical. Using these different semiotic approaches, I intend to study the divine characters, both their actions and their words, as symbolic representations of different aspects of the Peloponnesian War. For example, I will look at the physical distance between characters, both human and divine ...
... metaphorical. Using these different semiotic approaches, I intend to study the divine characters, both their actions and their words, as symbolic representations of different aspects of the Peloponnesian War. For example, I will look at the physical distance between characters, both human and divine ...
Radical Reprints Roderick T. Long The Athenian Constitution
... The Ionian cosmologist Anaxagoras had admittedly been run out of Athens for the crime of claiming that the sun was a giant burning rock rather than a god; but Plato tells us that Anaxagoras’ treatise was nonetheless readily available in the public marketplace for one drakhma per copy. Athenian playw ...
... The Ionian cosmologist Anaxagoras had admittedly been run out of Athens for the crime of claiming that the sun was a giant burning rock rather than a god; but Plato tells us that Anaxagoras’ treatise was nonetheless readily available in the public marketplace for one drakhma per copy. Athenian playw ...
A War Like No Other, Victor Davis Hanson
... the importance of the valley as a north-south highway in ancient times. Killing fields… surrounded by mountains that provide both defense for the flanks of heavy infantrymen and a refuge after defeat… Mantinea served as a choke point where the grand routes from southern Greece constrict to a mile or ...
... the importance of the valley as a north-south highway in ancient times. Killing fields… surrounded by mountains that provide both defense for the flanks of heavy infantrymen and a refuge after defeat… Mantinea served as a choke point where the grand routes from southern Greece constrict to a mile or ...
Guide-Unit 3-Thucydides
... 1) “I expected you to get angry with me, and I can see why it has happened. I have called this assembly to 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, i ...
... 1) “I expected you to get angry with me, and I can see why it has happened. I have called this assembly to 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, i ...
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, Col. XIII (G-H), 1
... of view, that Leontiades was ‘guilty’ of being pro-Spartan. Having pro-Athenian and, by implication, democratic leanings was not a crime for a Theban politician several years after the end of the war, or blameworthy except from an oligarchic perspective.5 On the contrary, Ismenias had won a great de ...
... of view, that Leontiades was ‘guilty’ of being pro-Spartan. Having pro-Athenian and, by implication, democratic leanings was not a crime for a Theban politician several years after the end of the war, or blameworthy except from an oligarchic perspective.5 On the contrary, Ismenias had won a great de ...
Solon and the Early Athenian Government Athens may be
... farmers with small parcels of land, leading up to around 600 BC, the eupatridae, who dominated Athens both politically and economically, began to buy up much of the land and to edge out their more humble competitors. The small farmers often had to mortgage their land. Many could not pay off these mo ...
... farmers with small parcels of land, leading up to around 600 BC, the eupatridae, who dominated Athens both politically and economically, began to buy up much of the land and to edge out their more humble competitors. The small farmers often had to mortgage their land. Many could not pay off these mo ...
Classics / WAGS 23: Essay 3 (April 16, 2011) 3.1 Disruptive
... Chance takes precedent; pleasure seeking replaces honorable existence; and the Athenian empire that emerges, as outlined by Pericles, identifies more as a traditional tyranny than as a bastion of liberty. In times of hardship, Pericles cautions, individual interests must submit to the interests of t ...
... Chance takes precedent; pleasure seeking replaces honorable existence; and the Athenian empire that emerges, as outlined by Pericles, identifies more as a traditional tyranny than as a bastion of liberty. In times of hardship, Pericles cautions, individual interests must submit to the interests of t ...
The Ekklesia - WordPress.com
... the practice of sending out the Athenian equivalent of the police, the Scythian archers (see Lesson 5), with a rope that had been soaked in red dye to herd people who were hanging around in the market-place into the ...
... the practice of sending out the Athenian equivalent of the police, the Scythian archers (see Lesson 5), with a rope that had been soaked in red dye to herd people who were hanging around in the market-place into the ...
The Persian War - WorldHistoryatYHS
... was not the last time they’d see the Persians 'Though all else shall be taken, Zeus, the all seeing, grants that the wooden wall only shall not fail.' Themistocles believes a Fleet of Triremes are to defeat Persia ...
... was not the last time they’d see the Persians 'Though all else shall be taken, Zeus, the all seeing, grants that the wooden wall only shall not fail.' Themistocles believes a Fleet of Triremes are to defeat Persia ...
1 Peter Hunt Associate Professor Department of Classics University
... and slow on the rough terrain and passes that dominate the central Greek landscape, but agricultural states need to control the fertile plains and must fight set battles there. For this, no force was as good as the heavily-armed Greek hoplite formation, the phalanx—certainly according to the many ne ...
... and slow on the rough terrain and passes that dominate the central Greek landscape, but agricultural states need to control the fertile plains and must fight set battles there. For this, no force was as good as the heavily-armed Greek hoplite formation, the phalanx—certainly according to the many ne ...
Winchester 2 Table of Contents Chapter One: Historical Background
... reputation, and also because of Nicias’ greater wealth. Since, as Deborah Hamel notes, the handling of Athenian forces was determined by majority vote of the commanders, Lamachus’ support of Alcibiades was another obstacle for Nicias. Late in the campaign, after Alcibiades’ departure, Lamachus’ deat ...
... reputation, and also because of Nicias’ greater wealth. Since, as Deborah Hamel notes, the handling of Athenian forces was determined by majority vote of the commanders, Lamachus’ support of Alcibiades was another obstacle for Nicias. Late in the campaign, after Alcibiades’ departure, Lamachus’ deat ...
The Date of the Callias Decrees
... general and rational apprehension arising from the simple fact that no one would at need be on hand to ensure their protection when once the Athenians were behind the walls of Athens. Let us remember also that reasonable as such a decision would be after it was resolved to leave Attica undefended, b ...
... general and rational apprehension arising from the simple fact that no one would at need be on hand to ensure their protection when once the Athenians were behind the walls of Athens. Let us remember also that reasonable as such a decision would be after it was resolved to leave Attica undefended, b ...
Kears, M. (2011) `Review: Susan Lape, Race and Citizen Identity in
... are told, „supplied an important out-group or Other against whom Athenian citizens could be defined‟, but unfortunately Lape does not go into further detail. She is convincing when she claims that the Athenian racial identity was based more on ideas about themselves than about others (e.g. p.45), bu ...
... are told, „supplied an important out-group or Other against whom Athenian citizens could be defined‟, but unfortunately Lape does not go into further detail. She is convincing when she claims that the Athenian racial identity was based more on ideas about themselves than about others (e.g. p.45), bu ...
Illinois classical studies: http://hdl.handle.net/10684
... (0Ea-CT|<;) of the city's beauty and size. Plutarch finds this story difficult to accept in view of the acid comment made by Cato who, while in Athens, availed himself of the services of an interpreter; ". the Athenians were astonished at the speed and pungency (6^\)tti<;) of his discourse. For what ...
... (0Ea-CT|<;) of the city's beauty and size. Plutarch finds this story difficult to accept in view of the acid comment made by Cato who, while in Athens, availed himself of the services of an interpreter; ". the Athenians were astonished at the speed and pungency (6^\)tti<;) of his discourse. For what ...
Corinthian War
The Corinthian War was an ancient Greek conflict lasting from 395 BC until 387 BC, pitting Sparta against a coalition of four allied states, Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos, who were initially backed by Persia. The immediate cause of the war was a local conflict in northwest Greece in which both Thebes and Sparta intervened. The deeper cause was hostility towards Sparta provoked by that city's ""expansionism in Asia Minor, central and northern Greece and even the west"".The war was fought on two fronts, on land near Corinth (hence the name) and Thebes and at sea in the Aegean. On land, the Spartans achieved several early successes in major battles, but were unable to capitalize on their advantage, and the fighting soon became stalemated. At sea, the Spartan fleet was decisively defeated by a Persian fleet early in the war, an event that effectively ended Sparta's attempts to become a naval power. Taking advantage of this fact, Athens launched several naval campaigns in the later years of the war, recapturing a number of islands that had been part of the original Athenian Empire during the 5th century BC.Alarmed by these Athenian successes, the Persians stopped backing the allies and began supporting Sparta. This defection forced the allies to seek peace. The Peace of Antalcidas, commonly known as the King's Peace, was signed in 387 BC, ending the war. This treaty declared that Persia would control all of Ionia, and that all other Greek cities would be independent. Sparta was to be the guardian of the peace, with the power to enforce its clauses. The effects of the war, therefore, were to establish Persia's ability to interfere successfully in Greek politics and to affirm Sparta's hegemonic position in the Greek political system.