Sophocles and Alcibiades
... (son of Milesias, to distinguish him from the historian) in the 440s bce. Thucydides had been the first to create anything like a political party in Athens, encouraging his partisans to sit together in the assembly. Thucydides’ power came to an abrupt end when he was ostracized in 443 bce, and Peric ...
... (son of Milesias, to distinguish him from the historian) in the 440s bce. Thucydides had been the first to create anything like a political party in Athens, encouraging his partisans to sit together in the assembly. Thucydides’ power came to an abrupt end when he was ostracized in 443 bce, and Peric ...
Grissom_umd_0117E_13755 - DRUM
... To my academic father, Dr. Art Eckstein, who has been my advisor, toughest critic and strongest supporter throughout this project. He has taught me how to write. To my academic mother, Dr. Jeanne Rutenburg, whom I consider to have been my “other advisor.” She showed me what real exuberance for teach ...
... To my academic father, Dr. Art Eckstein, who has been my advisor, toughest critic and strongest supporter throughout this project. He has taught me how to write. To my academic mother, Dr. Jeanne Rutenburg, whom I consider to have been my “other advisor.” She showed me what real exuberance for teach ...
After the Democracy: Athens under Phocion (322/1 – 319/8 B.C.)
... period. Diodorus is a useful resource. He examines the causes of the Lamian War and gives a detailed list of the Greeks that joined the fight for freedom and autonomy. He also provides a reasonable account of the struggle itself. Further, he looks at the negotiations that took place between the Athe ...
... period. Diodorus is a useful resource. He examines the causes of the Lamian War and gives a detailed list of the Greeks that joined the fight for freedom and autonomy. He also provides a reasonable account of the struggle itself. Further, he looks at the negotiations that took place between the Athe ...
the pdf - Open Collections
... freedom and, i n the case of the Spartans especially, their political constitution. What about the Persians, did they gain freedom from their rugged environment? No, but Herodotus did think that the seven conspirators could deliberate seriously whether Persia should be given a democracy. ...
... freedom and, i n the case of the Spartans especially, their political constitution. What about the Persians, did they gain freedom from their rugged environment? No, but Herodotus did think that the seven conspirators could deliberate seriously whether Persia should be given a democracy. ...
aus: Zeitschrift f¸r Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990) 231–295
... although, of course, his name in each of them also serves to date the document. For a prostates of the Pergamioi see the decree published by D.E. Evangelides in Epeirotika Chronika 1935, 260ff., and republished by L. Robert, Hellenica 1.95 (SEG XV 411), dated sometime after 264 BC and found in a pla ...
... although, of course, his name in each of them also serves to date the document. For a prostates of the Pergamioi see the decree published by D.E. Evangelides in Epeirotika Chronika 1935, 260ff., and republished by L. Robert, Hellenica 1.95 (SEG XV 411), dated sometime after 264 BC and found in a pla ...
Leo Strauss on Thucydides - National Humanities Institute
... write the speeches himself, keeping as close as possible to the gist of what the speakers had said.”38 Yet “the wording of the speeches is Thucydides’ own work.”39 The speeches, in Strauss’s judgment, are a particularly useful tool because they precede and succeed actions, and can therefore be measu ...
... write the speeches himself, keeping as close as possible to the gist of what the speakers had said.”38 Yet “the wording of the speeches is Thucydides’ own work.”39 The speeches, in Strauss’s judgment, are a particularly useful tool because they precede and succeed actions, and can therefore be measu ...
the price of failure
... popular and legal condemnation. It is axiomatic to most students of classical Athenian society that the Athenians treated their generals very harshly, and evaluated them according to very exacting standards. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, John Finley, and Charles Hignett, among many others, conclude tha ...
... popular and legal condemnation. It is axiomatic to most students of classical Athenian society that the Athenians treated their generals very harshly, and evaluated them according to very exacting standards. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, John Finley, and Charles Hignett, among many others, conclude tha ...
Alcibiades - Miss Allaker`s Classical Studies
... Alcibiades was accused of some sort of tax evasion. Some of his accusers said that he not only married his wife for money, but he tried to get double her dowry. Plato noted in Protagoras, that Alcibiades was a handsome man, but that there were others with more wisdom. He was a man that in our days w ...
... Alcibiades was accused of some sort of tax evasion. Some of his accusers said that he not only married his wife for money, but he tried to get double her dowry. Plato noted in Protagoras, that Alcibiades was a handsome man, but that there were others with more wisdom. He was a man that in our days w ...
Life and So ciety in
... city, much as Plato in the Laws and Aristotle in the lasr two books of the believed it possible to discover an ideal city behind the unsatisfactory fariousness of real cities. Thc rcason that wc cannot do this satisfactorilyis not so much the absenc cvidencc as its conccntration on two unrepresentat ...
... city, much as Plato in the Laws and Aristotle in the lasr two books of the believed it possible to discover an ideal city behind the unsatisfactory fariousness of real cities. Thc rcason that wc cannot do this satisfactorilyis not so much the absenc cvidencc as its conccntration on two unrepresentat ...
in partial fuifillrnent of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
... The Menerenus' mythology, which resembles a new founding in the guise of a mere renewal of tradition. aims at infusing the citizens' souls with a passionate, and in that respect, a pre-rational longing for moderation and fraternal affection. In doing so, it urges the city toward a healthier understa ...
... The Menerenus' mythology, which resembles a new founding in the guise of a mere renewal of tradition. aims at infusing the citizens' souls with a passionate, and in that respect, a pre-rational longing for moderation and fraternal affection. In doing so, it urges the city toward a healthier understa ...
Xenia in Classical Economies
... Indeed, I at once supplied your forces in Samos with oar-spars at a time when the Four Hundred had already seized power here, since Archelaus was an inherited xenos of mine and allowed me to cut and export as many as I wished. I both supplied these spars and, although I could have received a price f ...
... Indeed, I at once supplied your forces in Samos with oar-spars at a time when the Four Hundred had already seized power here, since Archelaus was an inherited xenos of mine and allowed me to cut and export as many as I wished. I both supplied these spars and, although I could have received a price f ...
Πολιτικός Ἔρως: Alcibiades` Love in Thucydides and Plato
... Alcibiades himself. This general, playboy, politician, and multiple Olympic victor plays an evershifting role in the War, casting a long shadow on some of its most dramatic developments, including the Battle of Mantinea, the mutilation of the Herms, the Sicilian Expedition, and the international pol ...
... Alcibiades himself. This general, playboy, politician, and multiple Olympic victor plays an evershifting role in the War, casting a long shadow on some of its most dramatic developments, including the Battle of Mantinea, the mutilation of the Herms, the Sicilian Expedition, and the international pol ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... This section of the paper will also examine Thucydides’ accounts of combinedarms tactics and the fighting methods used by javelineers and peltasts. In doing so, I will seek to illustrate an increasing level of interdependence between hoplites and javelin men. In short, the period witnessed the evolu ...
... This section of the paper will also examine Thucydides’ accounts of combinedarms tactics and the fighting methods used by javelineers and peltasts. In doing so, I will seek to illustrate an increasing level of interdependence between hoplites and javelin men. In short, the period witnessed the evolu ...
Author of Illusions - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... vital to the maintenance of the Athenian empire, namely, the grand longwalls which protected the city itself and secured her lifeline to Piraeus, her port on the Aegean. The Peloponnesians pulled down these walls with great enthusiasm while the flute girls played an accompaniment. All assumed, as Xe ...
... vital to the maintenance of the Athenian empire, namely, the grand longwalls which protected the city itself and secured her lifeline to Piraeus, her port on the Aegean. The Peloponnesians pulled down these walls with great enthusiasm while the flute girls played an accompaniment. All assumed, as Xe ...
T H E S E U S Θ Η Σ Ε Υ Σ
... After Theseus had been a prisoner of Pluto for some time, Hercules happened to be travelling in Epirus, and he stopped to visit Pluto. In the course of their conversation, Pluto casually mentioned what had happened to Theseus and Perithous. Horrified, Hercules asked Pluto to do him the favor of rele ...
... After Theseus had been a prisoner of Pluto for some time, Hercules happened to be travelling in Epirus, and he stopped to visit Pluto. In the course of their conversation, Pluto casually mentioned what had happened to Theseus and Perithous. Horrified, Hercules asked Pluto to do him the favor of rele ...
Socrates
... spirit, although he explicitly claimed that it never urged him on, but only warned him against various prospective events. Many of his contemporaries were suspicious of Socrates's daimonion as a rejection of the state religion. It is generally understood that Socrates's daimonion is akin to intuitio ...
... spirit, although he explicitly claimed that it never urged him on, but only warned him against various prospective events. Many of his contemporaries were suspicious of Socrates's daimonion as a rejection of the state religion. It is generally understood that Socrates's daimonion is akin to intuitio ...
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
... Hundred and abolished the Council of Five Hundred. 54 There can be no doubt that the oligarchs in 411 claimed Solon's alleged Council as their paradigm,55 and thus it is impossible to tell for certain whether the whole thing was just a propaganda invention that got taken afterwards as history or whe ...
... Hundred and abolished the Council of Five Hundred. 54 There can be no doubt that the oligarchs in 411 claimed Solon's alleged Council as their paradigm,55 and thus it is impossible to tell for certain whether the whole thing was just a propaganda invention that got taken afterwards as history or whe ...
Plutarch, Charinus, and the Megarian Decree
... course, had reported that the Athenians had charged the Megarians with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even ...
... course, had reported that the Athenians had charged the Megarians with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even ...
Introduction - Princeton University Press
... At the time of Pericles’ birth in 494/3 B.C.,8 the city had recently freed itself from the domination of tyrants who, for the past half-century, had held the reins of power. This was an important change. Once the tyranny had collapsed, in 510 B.C., all forms of personal domination remained for many ...
... At the time of Pericles’ birth in 494/3 B.C.,8 the city had recently freed itself from the domination of tyrants who, for the past half-century, had held the reins of power. This was an important change. Once the tyranny had collapsed, in 510 B.C., all forms of personal domination remained for many ...
The Battlefield of History: Megara, Athens, and the Mythic Past
... BC.5 As Athens began to consolidate its power and gain greater economic importance, the rising power came into conflict with its close neighbor. Border tensions and territorial wars culminated in the Athenian seizure of the island of Salamis at the end of a decades-long war with Megara. The transfer ...
... BC.5 As Athens began to consolidate its power and gain greater economic importance, the rising power came into conflict with its close neighbor. Border tensions and territorial wars culminated in the Athenian seizure of the island of Salamis at the end of a decades-long war with Megara. The transfer ...
- Nottingham ePrints
... strategy of wearing down his opponent through a war of attrition. Fabius ordered his men to harass the Carthaginians through skirmishes, disrupt supply and affect morale. In this way, Hannibal would be deprived of victories that would give him hope and lure cities to his side. Eventually, the cost o ...
... strategy of wearing down his opponent through a war of attrition. Fabius ordered his men to harass the Carthaginians through skirmishes, disrupt supply and affect morale. In this way, Hannibal would be deprived of victories that would give him hope and lure cities to his side. Eventually, the cost o ...
conclusion - The University of Michigan Press
... us. The leaders of the new order were hardly the µrst authority µgures in human history to justify their actions with an appeal to the past. In Greece itself, it had been common practice for generations among the ruling class to reafµrm their place in society by claiming links with the age of heroes ...
... us. The leaders of the new order were hardly the µrst authority µgures in human history to justify their actions with an appeal to the past. In Greece itself, it had been common practice for generations among the ruling class to reafµrm their place in society by claiming links with the age of heroes ...
A Day In Old Athens
... legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is ho ...
... legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is ho ...
Theseus - Mark Moore Online
... After the suicide of Aegeus had made Theseus king, he proceeded to gather the inhabitants of Attica into one city. Before, they had been spread out, and were not easy to assemble. Theseus settled their disputes and persuaded them to be at peace under a central government. The poor people consented e ...
... After the suicide of Aegeus had made Theseus king, he proceeded to gather the inhabitants of Attica into one city. Before, they had been spread out, and were not easy to assemble. Theseus settled their disputes and persuaded them to be at peace under a central government. The poor people consented e ...
Plutarch`s Themistocles
... instruction, is apt to hurry, upon either side, into sudden and violent courses, and very often to break away and determine upon the worst; as he afterwards owned himself, saying, that the wildest colts make the best horses, if they only get properly trained and broken in. But those who upon this fa ...
... instruction, is apt to hurry, upon either side, into sudden and violent courses, and very often to break away and determine upon the worst; as he afterwards owned himself, saying, that the wildest colts make the best horses, if they only get properly trained and broken in. But those who upon this fa ...
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.