The origins of coinage Lydia and the earliest coins According to the Greek historian Herodotus‚ writing in the fifth century BC‚ the Lydians were the first people to have used gold and silver coinage. He was almost correct. The earliest coins are found mainly in the parts of modern Turkey that formed the ancient kingdom of Lydia‚ but are made from a naturally occurring mixture of gold and silver called electrum. These coins were first produced in the seventh century BC and had a design on one
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CLASSICS 101: GREEK MYTHOLOGY Spring 2013‚ CSULB J. Mark Sugars‚ Ph.D. Sec. 06 Course #1364 TuTh 1230-1345 My office: MHB - 611 DESN – 112 j.marksugars@csulb.edu Mailbox (Dept. of Comp. World Lit. & Classics): MHB-517 Course Objectives: Greek myths have inspired and influenced literature‚ music‚ and the rest of the arts‚ especially in the
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(including Phaedrus‚ who adapted the fables into Latin)‚ say that he was born in Phrygia.[3] The 3rd-century poet Callimachus called him "Aesop of Sardis‚"[4] and the later writer Maximus of Tyre called him "the sage of Lydia."[5] From Aristotle[6] and Herodotus[7] we learn that Aesop was a slave in Samos and that his masters were first a man named Xanthus and then a man named Iadmon; that he must eventually have been freed‚ because he argued as an advocate for a wealthy Samian; and that he met his end in
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HIEU 101 Final Exam Review Sheet Identifications Ionian Revolt Themistocles Pericles Cimon Peloponnesian League Herodotus Thucydides Ephialtes Sophists Satrap Areopagus The Council of the 500 Pisistratus Agoge Stasis Peloponnesian League Aristagoras The Sixth-Parters The Definition of the Word Tyrant The Peace of Callias The Battle of Marathon Megarian Decree Boards of Ten Parthenon Aristophanes Essays 1. The great Persian invasion under Xerxes was a crucial
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the Sophist and master of Music Damon‚ and the philosopher Anaxagoras as well as Zenon of Elea. Pericles was a very patriotic man as well as dignified and upright‚ that was why he got so much recognition. Pericles was also friends with Sophocles‚ Herodotus‚ Phidias‚ Socrates and Protagoras‚ that being another reason on how he came to be known. Not only was Pericles a popular social light‚ he was also considered an inspirational and powerful speaker
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Sicyonian treasury at Delphi. His power was so great that‚ when he offered his daughter Agariste in marriage‚ some of the most prominent Greeks sought the honour‚ which fell upon Megacles‚ the Alcmaeoid. The story of the rival suitors is told by Herodotus. When Cleisthenes was forty years old he was a well-known politician with a reputation for clever strategy. Then in the year 514 BC Hippias’ brother and right-hand man‚ Hipparchus‚ was assassinated in a lovers quarrel. In response Hippias became
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One of the greatest engineering achievements of ancient times is a water tunnel‚ 1‚036 meters (4‚000 feet) long‚ excavated through a mountain on the Greek island of Samos in the sixth century B.C. It was dug through solid limestone by two separate teams advancing in a straight line from both ends‚ using only picks‚ hammers‚ and chisels. This was a prodigious feat of manual labor. The intellectual feat of determining the direction of tunneling was equally impressive. How did they do this
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Quiz 1 Study Guide - HTM 2454 The following is a general guide that will provide some direction and guidance in your studying for Quiz One (chapters 1-4). Please contact me if you have any questions‚ or if any of these categories are unclear to you (via the Chat Room of course)! Chapter 1: Tourism in Perspective The definition of tourism What four things does tourism include? 1. The tourist 2. The business providing goods & services 3. The government of the host community or area 4
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Also‚ he sees time as an accident of accidents. He states in Letter to Herodotus‚ “…we have only to reflect that we attach the attribute of time to days and nights and their parts‚ and likewise to feelings of pleasure and pain and to neutral states‚ to states of movement and states of rest‚ conceiving a peculiar accident of these to be this very characteristic which we express by the word time” (Epicurus Letter to Herodotus X.73 pg 603). As a result of time being a measurement
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‘lawgiver’ was a god like figure who was constantly recreated why things were as they were -Anything associated with his name become holy -To Spartans Lycurgus was a god who gave them a way of life which was divinely inspired and divinity sanctioned -Herodotus tells us that the oracle of Apollo at Delphi was believed to have recognised Lycurgus divinity and notes that after Lycurgus death a temple was built in his
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