Xerxes` Deliberate Expedition
... pursue the thematic matters which, in a history class, could either lead to other readings or stand as characteristically Herodotean. Herodotus is, of course, a primary source for this history. This is not to say that his inquiries or researches (the standard translations of the Greek title) are str ...
... pursue the thematic matters which, in a history class, could either lead to other readings or stand as characteristically Herodotean. Herodotus is, of course, a primary source for this history. This is not to say that his inquiries or researches (the standard translations of the Greek title) are str ...
B R A I
... gain glory; take possession of lands fully as extensive, productive, and fertile as those which we have now; and at the same time obtain vengeance and retribution, too. . . . [I] shall not give up until I conquer Athens and set it on fire, since it is they who began the offenses against me and my fa ...
... gain glory; take possession of lands fully as extensive, productive, and fertile as those which we have now; and at the same time obtain vengeance and retribution, too. . . . [I] shall not give up until I conquer Athens and set it on fire, since it is they who began the offenses against me and my fa ...
Complete Teaching Unit PDF Format - World History for Us All
... introduced coinage, the daric and the shekel, which has greatly aided in the administration of the empire. He also made the empire more efficient with the construction of the Royal Road and the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. The Royal Road’s paved surface has made trade between Susa and Sar ...
... introduced coinage, the daric and the shekel, which has greatly aided in the administration of the empire. He also made the empire more efficient with the construction of the Royal Road and the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. The Royal Road’s paved surface has made trade between Susa and Sar ...
Ordinary Level - State Examination Commission
... (ii) That Socrates should escape because he is endangering the good reputation of his friends. There is no need to worry about danger to his friends who want to help him. Also money is no problem to pay cost of rescue; he should escape so he can look after his children. Crito also says that it is co ...
... (ii) That Socrates should escape because he is endangering the good reputation of his friends. There is no need to worry about danger to his friends who want to help him. Also money is no problem to pay cost of rescue; he should escape so he can look after his children. Crito also says that it is co ...
Herodotus
... Furthermore, his political reforms meant the ruling class were not simply chosen according to who their parents were. This laid the foundations for the famous democracy which Cleisthenes would introduce at the end of the century. After his reforms, Solon is said to have travelled the ancient world f ...
... Furthermore, his political reforms meant the ruling class were not simply chosen according to who their parents were. This laid the foundations for the famous democracy which Cleisthenes would introduce at the end of the century. After his reforms, Solon is said to have travelled the ancient world f ...
TTC - Greek And Persian Wars Guidebook
... texts, such as Herodotus’s Histories, Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, and Xenophon’s Anabasis. Political developments abounded as well; the leagues of city-states and the spirit of democracy that matured during Greece’s Golden Age were direct results of the region’s opposition to impe ...
... texts, such as Herodotus’s Histories, Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, and Xenophon’s Anabasis. Political developments abounded as well; the leagues of city-states and the spirit of democracy that matured during Greece’s Golden Age were direct results of the region’s opposition to impe ...
Illinois classical studies: http://hdl.handle.net/10684
... Humphreys, "Law, Custom, and Culture ...
... Humphreys, "Law, Custom, and Culture ...
Describe Xerxes` relationship with Persians and
... Artabanus was Xerxes’ uncle, and commander of the palace guard. According to Herodotus, he had tried to dissuade Xerxes from invading Greece – without success, unfortunately. He was later involved in the plot to kill Xerxes. Mardonius was Xerxes’ brother-in-law, and his key general during the Greek ...
... Artabanus was Xerxes’ uncle, and commander of the palace guard. According to Herodotus, he had tried to dissuade Xerxes from invading Greece – without success, unfortunately. He was later involved in the plot to kill Xerxes. Mardonius was Xerxes’ brother-in-law, and his key general during the Greek ...
Herodotus, Politics and Athenian Democracy
... In the 5th century, Athens had expanded in wealth and power, subjugating most of the mainland and spreading its empire and influence even to Asia Minor and Ionia. After the Persian Wars, Athens had been in a position to subdue most of the other Greek city-states through open conflict or threats, and ...
... In the 5th century, Athens had expanded in wealth and power, subjugating most of the mainland and spreading its empire and influence even to Asia Minor and Ionia. After the Persian Wars, Athens had been in a position to subdue most of the other Greek city-states through open conflict or threats, and ...
Sample GCE Lesson Plan
... Some discussion of the Greek idea of ‘other’ and its creation at this point would be useful, along with the idea of the ‘Barbarian’. This should also be related to Herodotus’ own origins. Consideration of the modern consequences of this idea might also prove fruitful. ...
... Some discussion of the Greek idea of ‘other’ and its creation at this point would be useful, along with the idea of the ‘Barbarian’. This should also be related to Herodotus’ own origins. Consideration of the modern consequences of this idea might also prove fruitful. ...
Persia
... Asia were none of its concern. Athens, on the other hand, sent an entire army plus a navy to defend her fellow Greeks from the Persians. The expedition burned Sardis, capital of that part of the Empire, in 496 and the Persians were driven completely out of Asia Minor (Western Turkey). ...
... Asia were none of its concern. Athens, on the other hand, sent an entire army plus a navy to defend her fellow Greeks from the Persians. The expedition burned Sardis, capital of that part of the Empire, in 496 and the Persians were driven completely out of Asia Minor (Western Turkey). ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III.
... of ambition when revenging a past offence upon a foe that is no longer formidable. Miltiades landed on the island, laid vigorous siege to the principal city, and demanded from the inhabitants the penalty of a hundred talents. The besieged refused the terms, and worked day and night at the task of st ...
... of ambition when revenging a past offence upon a foe that is no longer formidable. Miltiades landed on the island, laid vigorous siege to the principal city, and demanded from the inhabitants the penalty of a hundred talents. The besieged refused the terms, and worked day and night at the task of st ...
Athenian Democracy
... Initially, non-landowning citizens could not participate in Athens’s Assembly. Unlike Sparta, Athens gradually expanded its definition of citizenship to include more people Eventually, all free men could be members of the Assembly regardless of what class they belonged to, even the metics— ...
... Initially, non-landowning citizens could not participate in Athens’s Assembly. Unlike Sparta, Athens gradually expanded its definition of citizenship to include more people Eventually, all free men could be members of the Assembly regardless of what class they belonged to, even the metics— ...
The Constitutional Debate in Herodotus
... while maintaining a discreet silence on tyranny. Freedom in his speech refers only to the nation’s freedom to dominate others.’ I suggest that Darius’ focus on freedom externally expressed is his argument for keeping a Persian custom. ...
... while maintaining a discreet silence on tyranny. Freedom in his speech refers only to the nation’s freedom to dominate others.’ I suggest that Darius’ focus on freedom externally expressed is his argument for keeping a Persian custom. ...
Greek Historiography (ed. S. Hornblower)
... ed. H. D. Jocelyn () ). His knowledge became fuller with the fourth century, which raised issues still resonating in his own times. ...
... ed. H. D. Jocelyn () ). His knowledge became fuller with the fourth century, which raised issues still resonating in his own times. ...
Battle of Marathon
... make ready. Aboard these the horses were embarked; and the troops were received by the ships of war; after which the whole fleet, amounting in all to six hundred triremes, made sail for Ionia. Thence, instead of proceeding with a straight course along the shore to the Hellespont and to Thrace, they ...
... make ready. Aboard these the horses were embarked; and the troops were received by the ships of war; after which the whole fleet, amounting in all to six hundred triremes, made sail for Ionia. Thence, instead of proceeding with a straight course along the shore to the Hellespont and to Thrace, they ...
Marathon and the Myth of the Same-Day March
... Marathon on the day of battle. Nor shall I be concerned with other problematic features of Herodotus' account: Philippides' run to Sparta and back, the possibility that prevailing Etesian winds in September dictate an October invasion date, or the presence, size, disposition, and movement of the Per ...
... Marathon on the day of battle. Nor shall I be concerned with other problematic features of Herodotus' account: Philippides' run to Sparta and back, the possibility that prevailing Etesian winds in September dictate an October invasion date, or the presence, size, disposition, and movement of the Per ...
A Democratic Consideration of Herodotus`s Histories
... penalty of execution. Indeed, the very word “freedom,” its equivalents and any concept associated with liberty did not exist in ancient Persia. Democracy’s freedom and the unifying strength fostered by it could have been the very things that Herodotus hoped would inspire non-democratic Greek societi ...
... penalty of execution. Indeed, the very word “freedom,” its equivalents and any concept associated with liberty did not exist in ancient Persia. Democracy’s freedom and the unifying strength fostered by it could have been the very things that Herodotus hoped would inspire non-democratic Greek societi ...
Classical Civilizations of the Middle East and Mediterranean
... Asia were none of its concern. Athens, on the other hand, sent an entire army plus a navy to defend her fellow Greeks from the Persians. The expedition burned Sardis, capital of that part of the Empire, in 496 and the Persians were driven completely out of Asia Minor (Western Turkey). ...
... Asia were none of its concern. Athens, on the other hand, sent an entire army plus a navy to defend her fellow Greeks from the Persians. The expedition burned Sardis, capital of that part of the Empire, in 496 and the Persians were driven completely out of Asia Minor (Western Turkey). ...
1. Explain Miltiades role and contribution to the Persian Wars.
... Fill in the definitions relating to Persia on pp. 1-2. Fill in the blanks of the hierarchy diagram on p. 3. Complete the timeline of major events leading to the ...
... Fill in the definitions relating to Persia on pp. 1-2. Fill in the blanks of the hierarchy diagram on p. 3. Complete the timeline of major events leading to the ...
`On Teaching Aeschylus` Persians` - Classical Association of Victoria
... years. The Persians (and their king Darius) ruled a vast empire that included Asia Minor (i.e., modern Turkey), Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and many of the Greek islands (including Cyprus, Rhodes, Lesbos, Lemnos, Chios, and Naxos). The citizens of the Ionian Greek city of Miletos led a revolt against t ...
... years. The Persians (and their king Darius) ruled a vast empire that included Asia Minor (i.e., modern Turkey), Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and many of the Greek islands (including Cyprus, Rhodes, Lesbos, Lemnos, Chios, and Naxos). The citizens of the Ionian Greek city of Miletos led a revolt against t ...
Pericles` Consolation and Solon`s Happiest Life
... uses the elder statesman's ideas about happiness to console the parents of the fallen. This borrowing is especially appropriate, since Solon names Tellus, an Athenian who died fighting for his city, as the happiest person he knows. Yet even when the allusions to Solon are most clear, Pericles uses n ...
... uses the elder statesman's ideas about happiness to console the parents of the fallen. This borrowing is especially appropriate, since Solon names Tellus, an Athenian who died fighting for his city, as the happiest person he knows. Yet even when the allusions to Solon are most clear, Pericles uses n ...
Thucydides on the evacuation of Athens in 480 BC - E
... second genitive absolute, emövxcov xcov Mr|öcov, is placed differently, as it is placed between oi At>nvaioi and öiavondevxeg exAuteiv xfiv jiöAiv. It seems as obvious as can be, considering the often ambiguous language of Thucydides, that the first genitive absolute is the more emphasised one, givi ...
... second genitive absolute, emövxcov xcov Mr|öcov, is placed differently, as it is placed between oi At>nvaioi and öiavondevxeg exAuteiv xfiv jiöAiv. It seems as obvious as can be, considering the often ambiguous language of Thucydides, that the first genitive absolute is the more emphasised one, givi ...
Thucydides on the evacuation of Athens in 480 BC - E
... second genitive absolute, emövxcov xcov Mr|öcov, is placed differently, as it is placed between oi At>nvaioi and öiavondevxeg exAuteiv xfiv jiöAiv. It seems as obvious as can be, considering the often ambiguous language of Thucydides, that the first genitive absolute is the more emphasised one, givi ...
... second genitive absolute, emövxcov xcov Mr|öcov, is placed differently, as it is placed between oi At>nvaioi and öiavondevxeg exAuteiv xfiv jiöAiv. It seems as obvious as can be, considering the often ambiguous language of Thucydides, that the first genitive absolute is the more emphasised one, givi ...
2010 Senior External Examination Ancient History Paper Two
... them were playing dice while the rest were asleep. Falling on the Athenians Pisistratus routed them. While they were fleeing Pisistratus devised a very clever plan to prevent the Athenians who were now scattered from coming together again. Putting his sons on horseback he sent them on ahead. Wheneve ...
... them were playing dice while the rest were asleep. Falling on the Athenians Pisistratus routed them. While they were fleeing Pisistratus devised a very clever plan to prevent the Athenians who were now scattered from coming together again. Putting his sons on horseback he sent them on ahead. Wheneve ...
Ionian Revolt
The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC. At the heart of the rebellion was the dissatisfaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with the tyrants appointed by Persia to rule them, along with the individual actions of two Milesian tyrants, Histiaeus and Aristagoras. The cities of Ionia had been conquered by Persia around 540 BC, and thereafter were ruled by native tyrants, nominated by the Persian satrap in Sardis. In 499 BC, the then tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, launched a joint expedition with the Persian satrap Artaphernes to conquer Naxos, in an attempt to bolster his position. The mission was a debacle, and sensing his imminent removal as tyrant, Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great.In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched on, captured, and burnt Sardis. However, on their return journey to Ionia, they were followed by Persian troops, and decisively beaten at the Battle of Ephesus. This campaign was the only offensive action by the Ionians, who subsequently went on the defensive. The Persians responded in 497 BC with a three pronged attack aimed at recapturing the outlying areas of the rebellion, but the spread of the revolt to Caria meant that the largest army, under Daurises, relocated there. While initially campaigning successfully in Caria, this army was annihilated in an ambush at the Battle of Pedasus. This resulted in a stalemate for the rest of 496 BC and 495 BC.By 494 BC the Persian army and navy had regrouped, and they made straight for the epicentre of the rebellion at Miletus. The Ionian fleet sought to defend Miletus by sea, but were decisively beaten at the Battle of Lade, after the defection of the Samians. Miletus was then besieged, captured, and its population was brought under Persian rule. This double defeat effectively ended the revolt, and the Carians surrendered to the Persians as a result. The Persians spent 493 BC reducing the cities along the west coast that still held out against them, before finally imposing a peace settlement on Ionia which was generally considered to be both just and fair.The Ionian Revolt constituted the first major conflict between Greece and the Persian Empire, and as such represents the first phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. Although Asia Minor had been brought back into the Persian fold, Darius vowed to punish Athens and Eretria for their support of the revolt. Moreover, seeing that the myriad city states of Greece posed a continued threat to the stability of his Empire, according to Herodotus, Darius decided to conquer the whole of Greece. In 492 BC, the first Persian invasion of Greece, the next phase of the Greco-Persian Wars, would begin as a direct consequence of the Ionian Revolt.