Unit F393
... Details of Herodotus’ account of the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians should be included, especially in relation to the outcomes of Plataea and Mycale. In addition, the final sections of Herodotus on the poverty of Greece might be considered. Answers should also make use of Plutarch, Aes ...
... Details of Herodotus’ account of the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians should be included, especially in relation to the outcomes of Plataea and Mycale. In addition, the final sections of Herodotus on the poverty of Greece might be considered. Answers should also make use of Plutarch, Aes ...
Pericles
... His scientific ideas freed Pericles from the superstitions held by the people he guided It is said his studies were in natural science ...
... His scientific ideas freed Pericles from the superstitions held by the people he guided It is said his studies were in natural science ...
saved - PDFbooks.co.za
... 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 ...
Introduction - Princeton University Press
... banished by the Athenian people when he was ostracized. This was a procedure that made it possible temporarily to get rid of any member of the elite considered to be too powerful and so prevent any return to tyranny. That sanction of ostracism lapsed in 485, halfway between the two Persian Wars, in ...
... banished by the Athenian people when he was ostracized. This was a procedure that made it possible temporarily to get rid of any member of the elite considered to be too powerful and so prevent any return to tyranny. That sanction of ostracism lapsed in 485, halfway between the two Persian Wars, in ...
POWER AND PRETEXT: THE STATUS OF JUSTICE IN THUCYDIDES
... were entitled to their possessions. They remind the Greeks that they helped save Greece from the Persians, especially at the Battle of Marathon and in numerous naval victories (1.73.4). This is used to justify their empire. Their past actions do not merit their unpopularity among the Greeks. At one ...
... were entitled to their possessions. They remind the Greeks that they helped save Greece from the Persians, especially at the Battle of Marathon and in numerous naval victories (1.73.4). This is used to justify their empire. Their past actions do not merit their unpopularity among the Greeks. At one ...
Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology
... non), will be much the same as the past, or at least similar-if they judge this account useful, that is quite enough [for me]. It is as a possession for all time rather than as an entry into the contest (agonisma) for current listening pleasure that I wrote" (1.22.4)·18 This is a heady claim: those ...
... non), will be much the same as the past, or at least similar-if they judge this account useful, that is quite enough [for me]. It is as a possession for all time rather than as an entry into the contest (agonisma) for current listening pleasure that I wrote" (1.22.4)·18 This is a heady claim: those ...
Thrasyllus Author(s): W. James McCoy Source: The
... Samos.5 If this is true, Thrasyllus was probably there during the winter months, when Alcibiades first began to communicate from Asia Minor with the most influential men of the Athenian fleet.6 But Thrasyllus was not numbered among the ranks of those who conspired against the democratic governments ...
... Samos.5 If this is true, Thrasyllus was probably there during the winter months, when Alcibiades first began to communicate from Asia Minor with the most influential men of the Athenian fleet.6 But Thrasyllus was not numbered among the ranks of those who conspired against the democratic governments ...
A Mind at War: Erga Paraloga in Thucydides` History
... Rhetoric, as has been and always will be noted by readers of Thucydides, holds incredible sway over the vulnerable mind. The volatile Athenian democracy, in particular, was at the mercy of words and ideas that would influence them by speaking to their ambitious and exalted view of their state. Thucy ...
... Rhetoric, as has been and always will be noted by readers of Thucydides, holds incredible sway over the vulnerable mind. The volatile Athenian democracy, in particular, was at the mercy of words and ideas that would influence them by speaking to their ambitious and exalted view of their state. Thucy ...
tyrannicides, symposium and history
... for the sympotic performance of denigration of the tyrannicides, and thus for the enactment of a law restricting such song? As already noted, the one reference we have to the law is a passing mention by Hyperides in a speech of c. 337 BCE; nothing he says hints that the law was a new creation, but h ...
... for the sympotic performance of denigration of the tyrannicides, and thus for the enactment of a law restricting such song? As already noted, the one reference we have to the law is a passing mention by Hyperides in a speech of c. 337 BCE; nothing he says hints that the law was a new creation, but h ...
Determining the Significance of Alliance
... bipolarity determines the insignificance of these pathologies. This leads me to my research question which is: Are alliance pathologies really insignificant to alliances in Bipolar Systems? Or is there something else driving this outcome? I am inclined to think that nuclear weapons may play a pivota ...
... bipolarity determines the insignificance of these pathologies. This leads me to my research question which is: Are alliance pathologies really insignificant to alliances in Bipolar Systems? Or is there something else driving this outcome? I am inclined to think that nuclear weapons may play a pivota ...
DETERMINING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ALLIANCE PATHOLOGIES
... bipolarity determines the insignificance of these pathologies. This leads me to my research question which is: Are alliance pathologies really insignificant to alliances in Bipolar Systems? Or is there something else driving this outcome? I am inclined to think that nuclear weapons may play a pivota ...
... bipolarity determines the insignificance of these pathologies. This leads me to my research question which is: Are alliance pathologies really insignificant to alliances in Bipolar Systems? Or is there something else driving this outcome? I am inclined to think that nuclear weapons may play a pivota ...
Divine Deliverance A New Look at Euripidean Tragedy
... The city of Athens held The Great Dionysia every year as a festival for the public and a tribute to the god Dionysus. During this time, playwrights would present their work to the city and the judges in an attempt to win this prestigious competition. The Dionysia was a source of ritual and entertain ...
... The city of Athens held The Great Dionysia every year as a festival for the public and a tribute to the god Dionysus. During this time, playwrights would present their work to the city and the judges in an attempt to win this prestigious competition. The Dionysia was a source of ritual and entertain ...
Thucydides and Civil War: the Case of Alcibiades
... History begins with him protesting against being dishonored. He opposed the 50 years peace on its merits –but also because the negotiators had “in every respect slighted” himself (5.43.2-3). He favored the Sicilian expedition on its merits -- but also to assert himself before Nicias who had “attacke ...
... History begins with him protesting against being dishonored. He opposed the 50 years peace on its merits –but also because the negotiators had “in every respect slighted” himself (5.43.2-3). He favored the Sicilian expedition on its merits -- but also to assert himself before Nicias who had “attacke ...
Chapter 10 (Greek City States) - Bellbrook
... • Shortly after the Battle of Marathon, rich silver mines were found near Athens. • The Athenians spent their new wealth on triremes, or warships that had three levels of rowers on each side, one above the other. • In 480 B.C., Darius’s son Xerxes sent 250,000 soldiers across the sea and conquer ...
... • Shortly after the Battle of Marathon, rich silver mines were found near Athens. • The Athenians spent their new wealth on triremes, or warships that had three levels of rowers on each side, one above the other. • In 480 B.C., Darius’s son Xerxes sent 250,000 soldiers across the sea and conquer ...
M. Lang, Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse
... Contemporary and future scholars will gain from studying her work but only if the study is critical and not slavish. One of Lang’s great strengths was her insistence on looking at the text itself, trying to make sense of ‘oddities’, as she called them. Her impressive command of the Greek language en ...
... Contemporary and future scholars will gain from studying her work but only if the study is critical and not slavish. One of Lang’s great strengths was her insistence on looking at the text itself, trying to make sense of ‘oddities’, as she called them. Her impressive command of the Greek language en ...
Akroterion 47 (2002) 5-15 EURIPIDES` BACCHAE IN ITS
... Archelaus himself was a problematic individual, as we can see from Plato’s Gorgias, where Archelaus is taken as a case study in the exchange on the subject whether happiness depends upon goodness. Polos characterises Archelaus as a vicious man, with no legitimate claim to the throne he held: “his mo ...
... Archelaus himself was a problematic individual, as we can see from Plato’s Gorgias, where Archelaus is taken as a case study in the exchange on the subject whether happiness depends upon goodness. Polos characterises Archelaus as a vicious man, with no legitimate claim to the throne he held: “his mo ...
Thucydides and the invention of political science
... noble. He saw children born to them all, and all of these survived. His life was prosperous by our standards, and his death was most glorious: when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely. The Athenians buried him at public expe ...
... noble. He saw children born to them all, and all of these survived. His life was prosperous by our standards, and his death was most glorious: when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely. The Athenians buried him at public expe ...
Thucydides and Political Order
... Thucydides who was speaking in this sentence but Euphemus, an Athenian, who was supposed to explain his city’s military presence in Sicily. 2 It is common knowledge that Athens’s enterprise to conquer Sicily had failed. What is more, it ended up as a catastrophe, and for Thucydides this failure beco ...
... Thucydides who was speaking in this sentence but Euphemus, an Athenian, who was supposed to explain his city’s military presence in Sicily. 2 It is common knowledge that Athens’s enterprise to conquer Sicily had failed. What is more, it ended up as a catastrophe, and for Thucydides this failure beco ...
Hellenic conceptions of peace - MacSphere
... followed in the fourth century, there came a realization of the ruinous effects of strife, which led in turn to the growth of a ...
... followed in the fourth century, there came a realization of the ruinous effects of strife, which led in turn to the growth of a ...
Morality and Realpolitik in the Athenian Speech at the
... The purpose of this paper is to explore the paradigm of ‘might versus right’ within the context of the Athenian speech at the first meeting of the Peloponnesian League at Sparta, at 1.73–78 of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. At that congress, the Athenian envoys, who, we are told, are ...
... The purpose of this paper is to explore the paradigm of ‘might versus right’ within the context of the Athenian speech at the first meeting of the Peloponnesian League at Sparta, at 1.73–78 of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. At that congress, the Athenian envoys, who, we are told, are ...
Socrates the man
... In the thick of fighting, the hoplon was essential. Hoplites were arrayed in a phalanx of variable width, usually eight or more rows deep, and advanced and fought as a unit, each man receiving some protection on his vulnerable right side from the left-most part of the shield of the hoplite to his ri ...
... In the thick of fighting, the hoplon was essential. Hoplites were arrayed in a phalanx of variable width, usually eight or more rows deep, and advanced and fought as a unit, each man receiving some protection on his vulnerable right side from the left-most part of the shield of the hoplite to his ri ...
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
... their preferences. The democracy began with an act of inclusivity: the Cleisthenic tribe/deme reform that followed immediately upon the revolution of 508/7 BC implicitly recognized all resident free males as citizens – thus accepting as citizens people who had moved to Athens quite recently, as wel ...
... their preferences. The democracy began with an act of inclusivity: the Cleisthenic tribe/deme reform that followed immediately upon the revolution of 508/7 BC implicitly recognized all resident free males as citizens – thus accepting as citizens people who had moved to Athens quite recently, as wel ...
THE AUTHENTICITY OF PERICLES` FUNERAL ORATION IN THE
... The basic arguments of those studious investigators who consider that Pericles' Oration is a fully counterfeit text or that it was dramatically distorted by Thucydides include the following: a) During this period of the Peloponnesian War, a great number of fighters3 had not been killed, nor had any ...
... The basic arguments of those studious investigators who consider that Pericles' Oration is a fully counterfeit text or that it was dramatically distorted by Thucydides include the following: a) During this period of the Peloponnesian War, a great number of fighters3 had not been killed, nor had any ...
Winchester 2 Table of Contents Chapter One: Historical Background
... In this thesis, I will examine the dynamics of power between the Athenian assembly and the three generals assigned to positions of command in the Sicilian Expedition – Alcibiades, Nicias, and Lamachus – and attempt to contextualize Alcibiades’ defecting from Athens to Sparta. I focus on the Sicilian ...
... In this thesis, I will examine the dynamics of power between the Athenian assembly and the three generals assigned to positions of command in the Sicilian Expedition – Alcibiades, Nicias, and Lamachus – and attempt to contextualize Alcibiades’ defecting from Athens to Sparta. I focus on the Sicilian ...
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.