Pericles
... surface, nothing seemed to be amiss. But beneath it, troubles, especially those concerning Sparta, were brewing. In the end, it was indeed Sparta that was Athens' undoing. Sparta and Athens had always been in a competition of some sort. As both sought to become the regional powerhouse, a conflict be ...
... surface, nothing seemed to be amiss. But beneath it, troubles, especially those concerning Sparta, were brewing. In the end, it was indeed Sparta that was Athens' undoing. Sparta and Athens had always been in a competition of some sort. As both sought to become the regional powerhouse, a conflict be ...
A Dissent at Athens ca 424
... to detect Aristophanic echoes and historical persons behind the dramatic masks.7 The historical episode most generally accepted as an item of evidence is an Athenian defeat near Delion in 424. Its immediate aftermath may provide a terminus post quem for the play. After that battle, the Thebans would ...
... to detect Aristophanic echoes and historical persons behind the dramatic masks.7 The historical episode most generally accepted as an item of evidence is an Athenian defeat near Delion in 424. Its immediate aftermath may provide a terminus post quem for the play. After that battle, the Thebans would ...
Defining the Athenian Arche
... the Athenian people can draw strength. His vision seeks to bind the Athenians in a shared identity on an internal level. Thucydides presents Pericles as an intriguing and brilliant figure, but do the Athenians rally around the concept of an Athenian Empire or the man who sought to create that identi ...
... the Athenian people can draw strength. His vision seeks to bind the Athenians in a shared identity on an internal level. Thucydides presents Pericles as an intriguing and brilliant figure, but do the Athenians rally around the concept of an Athenian Empire or the man who sought to create that identi ...
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... Samians trusted to defend their democracy, and who the fleet selected to lead it through the troubled time of conflict with the 400. Later, in his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants, Thrasybulus risked his life when few others would, and his actions were responsible for the quick restoration of democr ...
... Samians trusted to defend their democracy, and who the fleet selected to lead it through the troubled time of conflict with the 400. Later, in his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants, Thrasybulus risked his life when few others would, and his actions were responsible for the quick restoration of democr ...
Thucydides
... • Thucydides did not merely "go to the source", as a historian is nowadays routinely urged to do, but actually rescued his mostly oral sources from certain oblivion. • These speeches are composed in a literary manner. Pericles' funeral oration, which includes an impassioned moral defence of democrac ...
... • Thucydides did not merely "go to the source", as a historian is nowadays routinely urged to do, but actually rescued his mostly oral sources from certain oblivion. • These speeches are composed in a literary manner. Pericles' funeral oration, which includes an impassioned moral defence of democrac ...
Transcript PBS The Greeks Part 3
... power, center of a mighty naval empire. At the head of the state stood one man, a man who seemed to embody all of the Athenians’ achievements: Pericles. But Pericles now risked everything he ...
... power, center of a mighty naval empire. At the head of the state stood one man, a man who seemed to embody all of the Athenians’ achievements: Pericles. But Pericles now risked everything he ...
Thespies - 300 of Sparta
... In the history of ancient Greece, Thespiae was one of the cities of the federal league known as the Boeotian League. However, during the period of the Persian Wars, Thespians diversified from the rest of the Boeotians and joined the PanHellenic alliance, together with the people of Plataeae. In the ...
... In the history of ancient Greece, Thespiae was one of the cities of the federal league known as the Boeotian League. However, during the period of the Persian Wars, Thespians diversified from the rest of the Boeotians and joined the PanHellenic alliance, together with the people of Plataeae. In the ...
The Peloponnesian War – Video 26 – Siege of Syracuse Athenians
... This is a ___________ for the Athenians. The siege strategy is now ___________. Gylippus is able to build a fort at Euryleus (farthest on plateau, the Syracusans can no longer be blocked off). ___________ arrives, also added to the Peloponnesian navy. The hunters (Athens) are becoming the hunted (by ...
... This is a ___________ for the Athenians. The siege strategy is now ___________. Gylippus is able to build a fort at Euryleus (farthest on plateau, the Syracusans can no longer be blocked off). ___________ arrives, also added to the Peloponnesian navy. The hunters (Athens) are becoming the hunted (by ...
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 ...
II. Hints on Reading an Historical Document
... Requirements: Two examinations--a midterm held on the last day of the sixth week of the quarter and the final. The midterm is a short answer identification examination in which students are required to identify ten of twenty items. Identification items are drawn from both lectures and readings but w ...
... Requirements: Two examinations--a midterm held on the last day of the sixth week of the quarter and the final. The midterm is a short answer identification examination in which students are required to identify ten of twenty items. Identification items are drawn from both lectures and readings but w ...
Athens animation lengthened
... As Sparta fought the Persian army, the Athenians fought the navy. ...
... As Sparta fought the Persian army, the Athenians fought the navy. ...
Pericles and Athenian Imperialism
... the Athenian Empire disagree on the dating of the complex epigraphical 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 pla ...
... the Athenian Empire disagree on the dating of the complex epigraphical 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 pla ...
When was it? (1) - Golden Olympians
... *** The Delian League played an important role in the Golden Age of Greece. For more on the Delian League, turn the page over.*** ...
... *** The Delian League played an important role in the Golden Age of Greece. For more on the Delian League, turn the page over.*** ...
Sample Chapter 2 - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... direction—or oppression—of a central ruler like a pharaoh. By about 1600 B.C., the Greeks had created wealthy, fortified cities, among which the most prominent was Mycenae, a huge citadel built on a hill in the Peloponnese. The years from 1600 to 1100 B.C. are therefore often called the Mycenaean Ag ...
... direction—or oppression—of a central ruler like a pharaoh. By about 1600 B.C., the Greeks had created wealthy, fortified cities, among which the most prominent was Mycenae, a huge citadel built on a hill in the Peloponnese. The years from 1600 to 1100 B.C. are therefore often called the Mycenaean Ag ...
(Golden Age of Greece) - Presentation
... *** The Delian League played an important role in the Golden Age of Greece. For more on the Delian League, turn the page over.*** ...
... *** The Delian League played an important role in the Golden Age of Greece. For more on the Delian League, turn the page over.*** ...
B R A I
... e know little about the personal life of Herodotus. He was born around 485 B.C. in Halicarnassus, a city settled by Greeks on the western coast of Asia Minor (today’s Turkey). His family was probably aristocratic and wealthy. When he was a youngster, Herodotus and his family fled Halicarnassus after ...
... e know little about the personal life of Herodotus. He was born around 485 B.C. in Halicarnassus, a city settled by Greeks on the western coast of Asia Minor (today’s Turkey). His family was probably aristocratic and wealthy. When he was a youngster, Herodotus and his family fled Halicarnassus after ...
Volumes published (2006)
... B.C. This alliance was originally led by the Spartans, traditionally the most powerful of the Greek city-states. Following the defeat of the Persian invasion at the battle of Plataea in 479 B.C., the Spartans resigned the leadership and the Athenians, whose role on the victory over the Persians had ...
... B.C. This alliance was originally led by the Spartans, traditionally the most powerful of the Greek city-states. Following the defeat of the Persian invasion at the battle of Plataea in 479 B.C., the Spartans resigned the leadership and the Athenians, whose role on the victory over the Persians had ...
Chapter 4: Ancient Greece, 1900-133 B.C.
... point between 1400 and 1200 B.C., was made up of powerful monarchies. Each resided in a fortified palace center. Like Mycenae, these centers were built on hills and surrounded by gigantic stone walls. The various centers of power probably formed a loose alliance of independent states. While the roya ...
... point between 1400 and 1200 B.C., was made up of powerful monarchies. Each resided in a fortified palace center. Like Mycenae, these centers were built on hills and surrounded by gigantic stone walls. The various centers of power probably formed a loose alliance of independent states. While the roya ...
Chapter 4: Ancient Greece, 1900
... point between 1400 and 1200 B.C., was made up of powerful monarchies. Each resided in a fortified palace center. Like Mycenae, these centers were built on hills and surrounded by gigantic stone walls. The various centers of power probably formed a loose alliance of independent states. While the roya ...
... point between 1400 and 1200 B.C., was made up of powerful monarchies. Each resided in a fortified palace center. Like Mycenae, these centers were built on hills and surrounded by gigantic stone walls. The various centers of power probably formed a loose alliance of independent states. While the roya ...
371 BCE
... Several battles and skirmishes took place, in which sometimes the Thebans were superior and sometimes the Athenians carried off the victory. No important pitched battle occurred, yet, even when the island had been devastated by internecine warfare and many men had been killed on both sides, the two ...
... Several battles and skirmishes took place, in which sometimes the Thebans were superior and sometimes the Athenians carried off the victory. No important pitched battle occurred, yet, even when the island had been devastated by internecine warfare and many men had been killed on both sides, the two ...
Week 11: The Peloponnesian War, Part II
... third time. (June) Four of the five cities on the large island of Lesbos, except Methymna, which remains loyal to Athens, revolt under the oligarchic leaders of Mytilene (Lesbos and Chios are the only two remaining autonomous members of the empire, each providing ships rather than tribute); Sparta a ...
... third time. (June) Four of the five cities on the large island of Lesbos, except Methymna, which remains loyal to Athens, revolt under the oligarchic leaders of Mytilene (Lesbos and Chios are the only two remaining autonomous members of the empire, each providing ships rather than tribute); Sparta a ...
Ancient Studies History -- Unit 2 -
... Ancient Studies History -- Unit 2 -- Study Guide Sparta/Athens create? What needs did the lawgivers Solon and Cleisthenes attempt to address with their reforms in Athens in the 500s BC? And what type of society did they create? ...
... Ancient Studies History -- Unit 2 -- Study Guide Sparta/Athens create? What needs did the lawgivers Solon and Cleisthenes attempt to address with their reforms in Athens in the 500s BC? And what type of society did they create? ...
A-level Classical Civilisation Mark scheme Unit 02D
... (over Megara, an ally of Corinth); despite defeat at Tanagra Athens embarked on a series of aggressive policies in the following two years including actions against Spartan allies (mainly in the gulf of Corinth); these were more successful, leaving the Spartans and Corinthians isolated; by 454, with ...
... (over Megara, an ally of Corinth); despite defeat at Tanagra Athens embarked on a series of aggressive policies in the following two years including actions against Spartan allies (mainly in the gulf of Corinth); these were more successful, leaving the Spartans and Corinthians isolated; by 454, with ...
Pericles Biography
... famous orator, and general (in Greek 'Strategos’) of Athens during the Golden Age of Athens. So profound was his influence that the period in which he led Athens has been called the 'Age of Pericles’. This statesman’s influence on Athenian society was so great that Thucydides, his contemporary admir ...
... famous orator, and general (in Greek 'Strategos’) of Athens during the Golden Age of Athens. So profound was his influence that the period in which he led Athens has been called the 'Age of Pericles’. This statesman’s influence on Athenian society was so great that Thucydides, his contemporary admir ...
A Survey of Greek History
... aristocracies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies, all based on differing notions of equality. The Spartans, for instance, who faced a native slave population, devoted themselves almost entirely to hoplite training as a means to ensure their security. The Athenians, on the other hand, found room ...
... aristocracies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies, all based on differing notions of equality. The Spartans, for instance, who faced a native slave population, devoted themselves almost entirely to hoplite training as a means to ensure their security. The Athenians, on the other hand, found room ...
Greco-Persian Wars
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (modern day Iran) and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered the Greek-inhabited region of Ionia in 547 BC. Struggling to rule the independent-minded cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed tyrants to rule each of them. This would prove to be the source of much trouble for the Greeks and Persians alike.In 499 BC, the tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, embarked on an expedition to conquer the island of Naxos, with Persian support; however, the expedition was a debacle and, pre-empting his dismissal, Aristagoras incited all of Hellenic Asia Minor into rebellion against the Persians. This was the beginning of the Ionian Revolt, which would last until 493 BC, progressively drawing more regions of Asia Minor into the conflict. Aristagoras secured military support from Athens and Eretria, and in 498 BC these forces helped to capture and burn the Persian regional capital of Sardis. The Persian king Darius the Great vowed to have revenge on Athens and Eretria for this act. The revolt continued, with the two sides effectively stalemated throughout 497–495 BC. In 494 BC, the Persians regrouped, and attacked the epicentre of the revolt in Miletus. At the Battle of Lade, the Ionians suffered a decisive defeat, and the rebellion collapsed, with the final members being stamped out the following year.Seeking to secure his empire from further revolts and from the interference of the mainland Greeks, Darius embarked on a scheme to conquer Greece and to punish Athens and Eretria for the burning of Sardis. The first Persian invasion of Greece began in 492 BC, with the Persian general Mardonius successfully re-subjugating Thrace and conquering Macedon before several mishaps forced an early end to the rest of the campaign. In 490 BC a second force was sent to Greece, this time across the Aegean Sea, under the command of Datis and Artaphernes. This expedition subjugated the Cyclades, before besieging, capturing and razing Eretria. However, while en route to attack Athens, the Persian force was decisively defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon, ending Persian efforts for the time being.Darius then began to plan to completely conquer Greece, but died in 486 BC and responsibility for the conquest passed to his son Xerxes. In 480 BC, Xerxes personally led the second Persian invasion of Greece with one of the largest ancient armies ever assembled. Victory over the Allied Greek states at the famous Battle of Thermopylae allowed the Persians to torch an evacuated Athens and overrun most of Greece. However, while seeking to destroy the combined Greek fleet, the Persians suffered a severe defeat at the Battle of Salamis. The following year, the confederated Greeks went on the offensive, defeating the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea, and ending the invasion of Greece.The allied Greeks followed up their success by destroying the rest of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale, before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos (479 BC) and Byzantium (478 BC). The actions of the general Pausanias at the siege of Byzantium alienated many of the Greek states from the Spartans, and the anti-Persian alliance was therefore reconstituted around Athenian leadership, as the so-called Delian League. The Delian League continued to campaign against Persia for the next three decades, beginning with the expulsion of the remaining Persian garrisons from Europe. At the Battle of the Eurymedon in 466 BC, the League won a double victory that finally secured freedom for the cities of Ionia. However, the League's involvement in an Egyptian revolt (from 460–454 BC) resulted in a disastrous defeat, and further campaigning was suspended. A fleet was sent to Cyprus in 451 BC, but achieved little, and when it withdrew the Greco-Persian Wars drew to a quiet end. Some historical sources suggest the end of hostilities was marked by a peace treaty between Athens and Persia, the so-called Peace of Callias.