THE GREEK MYTHS
... decorative purposes. We see a fascination with the Greek stories in Ovid's and Propertius' poetry, but sheer proliferation of mythologizing tends to become an end in itself. Mythological "references" in Propertius are often nothing more than literary "asides" for the recognition of an educated clas ...
... decorative purposes. We see a fascination with the Greek stories in Ovid's and Propertius' poetry, but sheer proliferation of mythologizing tends to become an end in itself. Mythological "references" in Propertius are often nothing more than literary "asides" for the recognition of an educated clas ...
How Democratic Were the Ancient Greeks?
... was ruled by elected officials and an assembly of citizens. The assemblies met in public spaces out in the open. In such settings, citizens learned to speak their minds and take pride in their freedom and independence. Why did democracy develop in ancient Greece? There are many reasons for this. A m ...
... was ruled by elected officials and an assembly of citizens. The assemblies met in public spaces out in the open. In such settings, citizens learned to speak their minds and take pride in their freedom and independence. Why did democracy develop in ancient Greece? There are many reasons for this. A m ...
The Parthenon is dedicated to Athena Parthenos and
... Doric and Ionic elements. It also was built with a slight entasis to compensate for flaws in the human eye so that the entire building would appear perfect. Phidias, the master sculptor in charge of the Acropolis artistic scheme, sculpted a massive chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos. The me ...
... Doric and Ionic elements. It also was built with a slight entasis to compensate for flaws in the human eye so that the entire building would appear perfect. Phidias, the master sculptor in charge of the Acropolis artistic scheme, sculpted a massive chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos. The me ...
Russell and the Greeks
... beginning in 1824. Even then it had been specified that the Classical Tripos "should not be of such a searching character as to militate against the zealous pursuit of mathematics."12 The requirements for Greek and Latin (which reflected emphasis on them in the secondary schools) were now waning. Th ...
... beginning in 1824. Even then it had been specified that the Classical Tripos "should not be of such a searching character as to militate against the zealous pursuit of mathematics."12 The requirements for Greek and Latin (which reflected emphasis on them in the secondary schools) were now waning. Th ...
Conflict in the Greek World
... wealth? (Samples: Some may suggest that wealth stimulated cultural achievements; others may suggest that democratic discussion stimulated cultural greatness.) ...
... wealth? (Samples: Some may suggest that wealth stimulated cultural achievements; others may suggest that democratic discussion stimulated cultural greatness.) ...
Minoans and Myceneans - HowesLatinIII
... Also worshipped other cult gods Not sure if the gods had the same role as they did in later Greek religion ...
... Also worshipped other cult gods Not sure if the gods had the same role as they did in later Greek religion ...
9"t - bankstowntafehsc
... Asia, formed the cream of the cavalry. After Cyrus conquered Croesus of Lydia in 546 BC, Lydian cavalry contingents were also added to the Persian army. Cyrus, esteeming the mobility of cavalry units, formed contingents of them from among the Persian nobility. By the time of Xerxes' campaign against ...
... Asia, formed the cream of the cavalry. After Cyrus conquered Croesus of Lydia in 546 BC, Lydian cavalry contingents were also added to the Persian army. Cyrus, esteeming the mobility of cavalry units, formed contingents of them from among the Persian nobility. By the time of Xerxes' campaign against ...
Conflict in the Greek World
... Athens Leads the Delian League Victory in the Persian Wars increased the Greeks’ sense of their own uniqueness. The gods, they felt, had protected their superior form of government—the city-state— against invaders from Asia. Athens emerged from the war as the most powerful city-state in Greece. To c ...
... Athens Leads the Delian League Victory in the Persian Wars increased the Greeks’ sense of their own uniqueness. The gods, they felt, had protected their superior form of government—the city-state— against invaders from Asia. Athens emerged from the war as the most powerful city-state in Greece. To c ...
History
... The city-states were autonomous, free to pursue their own interests as they saw fit. Most abolished monarchic rule in favour of an aristocratic form of government, usually headed by an arhon (chief magistrate). Aristocrats were often disliked by the population because of their inherited privileges, ...
... The city-states were autonomous, free to pursue their own interests as they saw fit. Most abolished monarchic rule in favour of an aristocratic form of government, usually headed by an arhon (chief magistrate). Aristocrats were often disliked by the population because of their inherited privileges, ...
1º de educación secundaria obligatoria
... him; while those who wish to attack his character maintain that he too had a share in the fraud himself. For these persons borrowed money and bought up a large amount of land, and so when, a short time afterwards, all debts were cancelled, they became wealthy; and this, they say, was the origin of t ...
... him; while those who wish to attack his character maintain that he too had a share in the fraud himself. For these persons borrowed money and bought up a large amount of land, and so when, a short time afterwards, all debts were cancelled, they became wealthy; and this, they say, was the origin of t ...
Pythagoras` Legacy in the Musical World
... ratios. He added the integer five to create the major third (5:4), which had not been considered a harmonious interval by the ancient Greeks. Ptolemy’s addition of another integer continued the Pythagorean idea that arithmetic and musical harmony are connected, but his work also showed that the conn ...
... ratios. He added the integer five to create the major third (5:4), which had not been considered a harmonious interval by the ancient Greeks. Ptolemy’s addition of another integer continued the Pythagorean idea that arithmetic and musical harmony are connected, but his work also showed that the conn ...
Previewing Your Textbook
... understand how each is unique. Look for signal words in the text. Some comparison signal words are same, at the same time, like, and still. Contrast signal words include some, others, different, however, rather, yet, but, and or. Read the passage about Persian religion and then look at the questions ...
... understand how each is unique. Look for signal words in the text. Some comparison signal words are same, at the same time, like, and still. Contrast signal words include some, others, different, however, rather, yet, but, and or. Read the passage about Persian religion and then look at the questions ...
Ancient Greek Civilization
... II. The Rediscovery of the Greeks A. Even in the Renaissance, classical culture was primarily equated with Roman culture and Latin literature. The rediscovery of the Greeks was the product of German historian and art critic Johannes Winkelmann and the “philhellenic movement” of the eighteenth and ni ...
... II. The Rediscovery of the Greeks A. Even in the Renaissance, classical culture was primarily equated with Roman culture and Latin literature. The rediscovery of the Greeks was the product of German historian and art critic Johannes Winkelmann and the “philhellenic movement” of the eighteenth and ni ...
Chapter 4 section 2 - Plainview Public Schools
... • Hundreds of rocky islands extended from the coast. • Rather than a unified empire, the Greeks built independent city-states cut off from one another by mountains or water. Rivalries between city-states often led to war. ...
... • Hundreds of rocky islands extended from the coast. • Rather than a unified empire, the Greeks built independent city-states cut off from one another by mountains or water. Rivalries between city-states often led to war. ...
File
... and vanities of both the great heroes of the past, and the leading politicians of the present. The first scientists were building on the insights already made by Ionian Greeks such as Thales, while the world's first historian, Herodotus, had begun his famous 'Histories': our first record of Ancient ...
... and vanities of both the great heroes of the past, and the leading politicians of the present. The first scientists were building on the insights already made by Ionian Greeks such as Thales, while the world's first historian, Herodotus, had begun his famous 'Histories': our first record of Ancient ...
Greek Ancestors
... but it was destroyed by an earthquake, not by war, in 1250 BCE. The seventh layer of the city appears to be the legendary Troy and has been dated to 1180 BCE. Its towers and walls can still be seen in the ruins and there are arrowheads lying in the streets. ...
... but it was destroyed by an earthquake, not by war, in 1250 BCE. The seventh layer of the city appears to be the legendary Troy and has been dated to 1180 BCE. Its towers and walls can still be seen in the ruins and there are arrowheads lying in the streets. ...
Thrace - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
... and captured the lands as far as the Mesta. From here, in the reign of Xerxes, they headed for the Struma, crossed the river, conquered the Thracians of that region, and, taking all the conquered tribes with them, they invaded Greece through southern Macedonia. Thus, in the course of more than thirt ...
... and captured the lands as far as the Mesta. From here, in the reign of Xerxes, they headed for the Struma, crossed the river, conquered the Thracians of that region, and, taking all the conquered tribes with them, they invaded Greece through southern Macedonia. Thus, in the course of more than thirt ...
Ancient Greece
... are to line numbers, preceded, if needed, by book number.) For secondary sources, the citations are to page numbers or catalogue item numbers. The majority of the literary and documentary texts from Greek antiquity have not survived, but those that have are significant and provocative. The epics o ...
... are to line numbers, preceded, if needed, by book number.) For secondary sources, the citations are to page numbers or catalogue item numbers. The majority of the literary and documentary texts from Greek antiquity have not survived, but those that have are significant and provocative. The epics o ...
Polis Profile: Argos
... Peninsula of Attica (Athens). It built ports on the gulfs that border each side. From this optimum geographical location, Megarians had the power to bargain with armies for passage through the area and to levy tolls upon trade ships. Because of this and its thriving textile industry, Megara prospere ...
... Peninsula of Attica (Athens). It built ports on the gulfs that border each side. From this optimum geographical location, Megarians had the power to bargain with armies for passage through the area and to levy tolls upon trade ships. Because of this and its thriving textile industry, Megara prospere ...
Transcript of “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” Episode Two
... 490 BC. A lone figure runs across the mountainous terrain of Greece. His name is Pheidippides, citizen of a tiny democracy named Athens. On this day, Pheidippides will make one of the most ...
... 490 BC. A lone figure runs across the mountainous terrain of Greece. His name is Pheidippides, citizen of a tiny democracy named Athens. On this day, Pheidippides will make one of the most ...
Leadership Books: The Classics, Part 2
... to be historical (though rough edges may have been smoothed and a lot of stories “improved”), in the category of epic, the literal truth is not the point. The Iliad, one of the most renown of epics of history, and the vade mecum of Alexander the Great, has long been seen as commentary on the glory, ...
... to be historical (though rough edges may have been smoothed and a lot of stories “improved”), in the category of epic, the literal truth is not the point. The Iliad, one of the most renown of epics of history, and the vade mecum of Alexander the Great, has long been seen as commentary on the glory, ...
The Greek City
... square miles of territory, about the size of the state of Louisiana. The mountains and the sea were especially significant. Much of Greece consists of small plains and river valleys surrounded by mountain ranges 8,000 to 10,000 feet high. The mountains isolated Greeks from one another, causing Greek ...
... square miles of territory, about the size of the state of Louisiana. The mountains and the sea were especially significant. Much of Greece consists of small plains and river valleys surrounded by mountain ranges 8,000 to 10,000 feet high. The mountains isolated Greeks from one another, causing Greek ...
Transcript of “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” Episode One
... the heart of their empire lay the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This was the very birthplace of civilization, the home of the world’s first cities. But mainland Greece had no open plains. This ...
... the heart of their empire lay the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This was the very birthplace of civilization, the home of the world’s first cities. But mainland Greece had no open plains. This ...
Module 6 Greek
... – The polis started as a defensible area to which farmers of an area could retreat in the event of an attack as in the Mycenaean citadels – Over time, towns grew around these defensible areas. ...
... – The polis started as a defensible area to which farmers of an area could retreat in the event of an attack as in the Mycenaean citadels – Over time, towns grew around these defensible areas. ...
Pontic Greeks
The Pontic Greeks, also known as Pontian Greeks (Greek: Πόντιοι, Ελληνοπόντιοι, Póntioi, Ellinopóntioi; Turkish: Pontus Rumları, Karadeniz Rumlari, Georgian: პონტოელი ბერძნები), are an ethnically Greek group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Alps of northeastern Anatolia. Many later migrated to other parts of Eastern Anatolia, to the former Russian province of Kars Oblast in the Transcaucasus, and to Georgia in various waves between the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461 and the second Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829. Those from southern Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea are often referred to as ""Northern Pontic [Greeks]"", in contrast to those from ""South Pontus"", which strictly speaking is Pontus proper. Those from Georgia, northeastern Anatolia, and the former Russian Caucasus are in contemporary Greek academic circles often referred to as ""Eastern Pontic [Greeks]"" or as Caucasian Greeks, but also include the Greco-Turkic speaking Urums.Pontic Greeks have Greek ancestry and speak the Pontic Greek dialect, a distinct form of the standard Greek language which, due to the remoteness of Pontus, has undergone linguistic evolution distinct from that of the rest of the Greek world. The Pontic Greeks had a continuous presence in the region of Pontus (modern-day northeastern Turkey), Georgia, and Eastern Anatolia from at least 700 BC until 1922.