Brill`s Companion to Thucydides: "Warfare" by Peter Hunt "The
... most adult males from every social class at Athens—and participation was probably also high in other Greek states.13 Almost all facets of the Greeks' culture—athletics, epic, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, history, and sculpture—reflected this overwhelming presence of warfare in their lives.14 So, too ...
... most adult males from every social class at Athens—and participation was probably also high in other Greek states.13 Almost all facets of the Greeks' culture—athletics, epic, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, history, and sculpture—reflected this overwhelming presence of warfare in their lives.14 So, too ...
conclusion - The University of Michigan Press
... most likely, did they aim to be. Solon’s reforms probably did furnish ordinary Athenians with some modest political gains and protections, but only as many as were required to restore equilibrium, or eunomia, to a state in turmoil. Likewise, Peisistratus and his sons favored the status quo. Though t ...
... most likely, did they aim to be. Solon’s reforms probably did furnish ordinary Athenians with some modest political gains and protections, but only as many as were required to restore equilibrium, or eunomia, to a state in turmoil. Likewise, Peisistratus and his sons favored the status quo. Though t ...
Thucydides` Corinthians - OUR Archive
... The third and final chapter will focus on the Corinthian navy, since Thucydides places great importance on naval matters in his narrative of the war‟s outbreak. Moreover, it seems to be another area where Thucydides shapes his narrative to misrepresent the Corinthians. The first section of this cha ...
... The third and final chapter will focus on the Corinthian navy, since Thucydides places great importance on naval matters in his narrative of the war‟s outbreak. Moreover, it seems to be another area where Thucydides shapes his narrative to misrepresent the Corinthians. The first section of this cha ...
A Day In Old Athens
... Preface This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some 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 expla ...
... Preface This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some 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 expla ...
The Politics of Pity in Athenian Civic Ideology and Aristotle`s Poetics
... corollary - democratic racialism) not only rendered the Athenians closer to the gods, but it also endowed them with extraordinary political and ethical capacities. The link between autochthony and democratic equality is by now well known. However, the myth is also connected to ideas about justice. T ...
... corollary - democratic racialism) not only rendered the Athenians closer to the gods, but it also endowed them with extraordinary political and ethical capacities. The link between autochthony and democratic equality is by now well known. However, the myth is also connected to ideas about justice. T ...
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought
... The transformation from drama to history as the favoured means of presenting the city’s past is greater than the simple replacement of one, performative, genre by another, literary one, although this transition heralds significant changes in the depiction and use of kingship myth. Engagement with k ...
... The transformation from drama to history as the favoured means of presenting the city’s past is greater than the simple replacement of one, performative, genre by another, literary one, although this transition heralds significant changes in the depiction and use of kingship myth. Engagement with k ...
Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies
... Herodotus continued south from Memphis into Thebes, the chief city of Upper Egypt, and believed to be one of the oldest in the world.<36> The city left him a little flat, however, and for some unknown reason Herodotus has little to say about it. Some have taken this as a sign that this part of the ...
... Herodotus continued south from Memphis into Thebes, the chief city of Upper Egypt, and believed to be one of the oldest in the world.<36> The city left him a little flat, however, and for some unknown reason Herodotus has little to say about it. Some have taken this as a sign that this part of the ...
Introduction A Biography of Pericles in the Context of the Ancient
... changed his mind later in life, but the fact is that he never did. Following the background on Pericles’ family and early life, the story of his life as told in this book will turn to the question of how he earned his lasting fame as a leader in competition with many other ambitious male citizens in ...
... changed his mind later in life, but the fact is that he never did. Following the background on Pericles’ family and early life, the story of his life as told in this book will turn to the question of how he earned his lasting fame as a leader in competition with many other ambitious male citizens in ...
Edith Foster, Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism and
... absent authors from his own text, many readers have experienced the strong sense that this absence is a deliberate concealment, another rhetorical technique to promote his agenda: it is clear that his account must be organised around an idea or set of ideas about the events described, if not express ...
... absent authors from his own text, many readers have experienced the strong sense that this absence is a deliberate concealment, another rhetorical technique to promote his agenda: it is clear that his account must be organised around an idea or set of ideas about the events described, if not express ...
Author of Illusions - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... quintessential catastrophe for Athens and many other city states as well, as he is quick to point out: This war was drawn out to great length, and in its course misfortunes befell Greece such as had never before occurred in a like space of time. For never before had there been so many cities capture ...
... quintessential catastrophe for Athens and many other city states as well, as he is quick to point out: This war was drawn out to great length, and in its course misfortunes befell Greece such as had never before occurred in a like space of time. For never before had there been so many cities capture ...
centauromachy - Astro*Synthesis
... Under Pericles’ leadership Athens’s power and prestige grew through imperialism and democracy. Since the Persian invasion and the foundation of the Delian League, Athens domination of the Aegean and beyond had increased. Its imperialistic tendencies sparked conflict with other Greek cities. While th ...
... Under Pericles’ leadership Athens’s power and prestige grew through imperialism and democracy. Since the Persian invasion and the foundation of the Delian League, Athens domination of the Aegean and beyond had increased. Its imperialistic tendencies sparked conflict with other Greek cities. While th ...
hermocrates the syracusan1 - Manchester eScholar
... century to be a tempting prey to two great powers, Athens and Carthage. As soon as Athens became a naval power, some Athenians began to show an interest in the west, Themistocles being apparently one of these. There seems to have been much talk of western expansion at Athens during the Pentacontaeti ...
... century to be a tempting prey to two great powers, Athens and Carthage. As soon as Athens became a naval power, some Athenians began to show an interest in the west, Themistocles being apparently one of these. There seems to have been much talk of western expansion at Athens during the Pentacontaeti ...
Alcibiades Christian Jones Col Sheldon HI-304
... against involvement in Sicily, the Athenians would compromise and Alcibiades was sent west with a large force along with two other strategoi, Lamachus and Nicias, who hoped to serve as a check on Alcibiades rashness.9 But one night during preparations before the departure for Sicily, the hermai, hea ...
... against involvement in Sicily, the Athenians would compromise and Alcibiades was sent west with a large force along with two other strategoi, Lamachus and Nicias, who hoped to serve as a check on Alcibiades rashness.9 But one night during preparations before the departure for Sicily, the hermai, hea ...
POLITICS AND EURIPIDES by SUSAN C. LAFONT, BA A THESIS IN
... consideration of style is important, but one must remember that Euripides, as any other playwright, was free to experiment with various styles of writing, and therefore, it is very possible that he would use a style, abandon it for the next few plays, and then go back to a previous form for reasons ...
... consideration of style is important, but one must remember that Euripides, as any other playwright, was free to experiment with various styles of writing, and therefore, it is very possible that he would use a style, abandon it for the next few plays, and then go back to a previous form for reasons ...
the chabrias monument in the athenian agora
... by the merchantmen for state protection (Lysias, XIX, 50). He seems to have served under Chabrias at Naxos, for one of the maneuvers of that battle, at first loosely attributed to Chabrias by Polyainos, is later cited as an example of the tactics of Diotimos (Polyainos, III, 11, 3; cf. V, 22, 2). Ac ...
... by the merchantmen for state protection (Lysias, XIX, 50). He seems to have served under Chabrias at Naxos, for one of the maneuvers of that battle, at first loosely attributed to Chabrias by Polyainos, is later cited as an example of the tactics of Diotimos (Polyainos, III, 11, 3; cf. V, 22, 2). Ac ...
the failure of Athenian democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants
... as America in the years following World War II, although history does not repeat itself to the exact detail. These comparisons can be somewhat illusory given the enormous difference in time, yet the comparisons do exist and more of them continue to emerge as world governments evolve, for better or f ...
... as America in the years following World War II, although history does not repeat itself to the exact detail. These comparisons can be somewhat illusory given the enormous difference in time, yet the comparisons do exist and more of them continue to emerge as world governments evolve, for better or f ...
the pdf - Open Collections
... "This Croesus was the f i r s t of the barbarians of whom we know to have reduced certain of the Greeks to the position of tributaries, and to have made friendly alliances with others. He subdued the Ionians, Aeolians, and Dorians who were i n Asia and made friends with the Lacedaemonians* Before th ...
... "This Croesus was the f i r s t of the barbarians of whom we know to have reduced certain of the Greeks to the position of tributaries, and to have made friendly alliances with others. He subdued the Ionians, Aeolians, and Dorians who were i n Asia and made friends with the Lacedaemonians* Before th ...
Kairos: a cultural history of time in the Greek polis
... sunrise, sunset, or at some certain fixed hour, while different calendrical systems use different lengths of year, and such variations as academic years and fiscal years have their own rules within a larger system. This dissertation is intended to call attention to distinctive aspects of constructio ...
... sunrise, sunset, or at some certain fixed hour, while different calendrical systems use different lengths of year, and such variations as academic years and fiscal years have their own rules within a larger system. This dissertation is intended to call attention to distinctive aspects of constructio ...
the classical agora
... democratic urge were being sown. Whatever the intention, the northwest corner of the Agora was being reshaped into a public space by a ‘deliberate effort to enlarge the area of the public square’. Architectural developments (Buildings C & D) in the southwest corner of the Agora also occurred during ...
... democratic urge were being sown. Whatever the intention, the northwest corner of the Agora was being reshaped into a public space by a ‘deliberate effort to enlarge the area of the public square’. Architectural developments (Buildings C & D) in the southwest corner of the Agora also occurred during ...
Ethnography and Empire: Homer and the Hippocratics in Herodotus
... narration that the audience is not allowed voyeuristically to have their curiosity satisfied by simply ‘overhearing’ (as it were) any logos about the Table given to the Fish-eaters or later recounted by them to Cambyses: the narration of that logos is not a part of the plot, and in fact Herodotus ne ...
... narration that the audience is not allowed voyeuristically to have their curiosity satisfied by simply ‘overhearing’ (as it were) any logos about the Table given to the Fish-eaters or later recounted by them to Cambyses: the narration of that logos is not a part of the plot, and in fact Herodotus ne ...
“Is there an exit strategy from a preventive war? The opposing cases
... quite satisfactory: “pure strategy was still the art of the general. But the role of grand strategy was to coordinate and direct all the resources of the nation towards the attainment of the political object of the war – the goal defined by national policy”5. In any case I have to stress that the cl ...
... quite satisfactory: “pure strategy was still the art of the general. But the role of grand strategy was to coordinate and direct all the resources of the nation towards the attainment of the political object of the war – the goal defined by national policy”5. In any case I have to stress that the cl ...
thebes as the “anti-athens”? some observations on the city`s
... complex than the extant material suggests. This diversity within the Theban mythical repertoire is matched by the diversity of the city’s very individual depictions in tragedy. Varying degrees of emphasis are placed on the city as physical or geographical “place”; so, for instance, Aeschylus in Seve ...
... complex than the extant material suggests. This diversity within the Theban mythical repertoire is matched by the diversity of the city’s very individual depictions in tragedy. Varying degrees of emphasis are placed on the city as physical or geographical “place”; so, for instance, Aeschylus in Seve ...
S N : PEECH AND
... the Platonic corpus. Where efforts are expended outside of the dialogues or the letters, the turn is usually to “historical” sources, i.e. near contemporary commentators on the dialogues. There has been some, not a great deal by ratio, but some discussion of Plato’s relation to his philosophical fo ...
... the Platonic corpus. Where efforts are expended outside of the dialogues or the letters, the turn is usually to “historical” sources, i.e. near contemporary commentators on the dialogues. There has been some, not a great deal by ratio, but some discussion of Plato’s relation to his philosophical fo ...
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.