Ancient Greece Sparta‚ one of the powerful city-states‚ retains this name for good reason. They took over Messenia and used the land wisely‚ by making a government using the Code of Lycurgus. The Spartan women were given a lot more freedom compared to other Greek city-states; thus‚ every person provided a part in the development of their city. They represented duty‚ strength‚ discipline‚ beauty‚ and freedom of thought. Spartans valued power and built their city-state to protect themselves
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Alcestis In ancient Greece there were separate gender roles. Women were expected to act a certain way. They had many limitations in their life. How they were supposed to act was regulated by Greek men. Euripides creates a tragedy that has a positive tone through its main character Alcestis. Alcestis is shown as a perfect submissive wife capable of making tremendous personal sacrifices. She is seen as a positive force‚ more so than real Greek women were. Euripides was a play writer in ancient Greece. He
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Impact of Poetry The legend of Homer‚ considered by most the greatest epic poets of ancient Greece‚ stretches beyond classroom conversations and readings in classics classes at Connecticut College. His legend transforms Homer from being a man of words into a man of impact. Words were just the way of delivering this impact to the masses. We see the importance of poetry to the people and culture of Ancient Greece in more places than just the oral readings of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Festivals revolved
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Climate GREEK CLIMATE Greece has a climate all its own. Greece has fairly warm temperatures all year round and is very nice to live in…well according to the climate. Greece is located in Europe‚ next to Italy‚ on the Mediterranean Sea. It is theoretically possible for it to snow in Greece‚ but it is very‚ very rare to see. Though it may seem like a nice place to live with it being warm and on the ocean and all But Greece is surprisingly very dry due to its long summers of 4
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In most of the ancient Greek world‚ gender roles were fairly static throughout time and outside circumstances had little or no influence on gender construction. Men functioned within the public sphere‚ whereas women were restricted to the private‚ domestic sphere. This was the typical gender construction of most ancient societies‚ and remained so in much of the world until modern times. Unlike the women of Athens‚ Spartan women were taught reading‚ and writing‚ but were also expected to be able
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Theaters‚ actors‚ and plays were all started in the ancient Greek time period. Ancient Greek theater began between 550 and 220 BC. The plays or productions focused on the Greek God Dionysus. Dionysus was the God of wine‚ agriculture‚ and sexuality. Thespis was a person who told stories through songs to Dionysus. Thespis did two major things that transformed Greek theater‚ make actors instead of just storytellers and translated the hymns into Dionysus to story telling songs which people acted out
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During the fifth century B.C.E.‚ Persia was a thriving empire that controlled a vast territory. In 499 B.C.E.‚ Greece helped Ionia‚ a province of Persia‚ rebel against the king of Persia‚ King Darius I. Darius vowed to crush Greece for it’s role in the rebellion. Throughout the fifth century‚ Persia repeatedly attacked Greece. After the third Persian invasion in 479‚ Greece decided to put an end to the attacks. In 478‚ the Delian League was created; it was an alliance of poleis‚ or Greek city-states
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In the ancient world‚ the Greeks believed that gods controlled everything in the universe‚ then some people tried to find natural ways for healing‚ mathematics and others. They called these natural ways‚ natural laws. These natural laws started the ways of modern science. The old science of greek has done a lot to influence the ways of modern science people use today. Greek was the foundation for modern science today that people learn more about every second of the day. Ancient Greek science and
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Ramesses I (1295-1294 BC)‚ a military commander from the East Delta‚ became the founder of the new XIX dynasty under the former king Horemhebe‚ which‚ together with XX‚ is called Ramessid. They were tasked with restoring the influence of Egypt in the "post-World" world‚ which underwent major changes. The great legacy of Thutmose III in Asia was almost lost. Absorbed by the reform‚ Akhenaten departed from an active foreign policy‚ reacting little to the letters of the Asian vassal kings about the
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The Ancient City-States of Greece and Ancient Persia were the two world’s super powers in 490 B.C.E. Although The City-States of Greece and Persia are similar by their education‚ they are different because of their political systems and military systems. They were similar and different in so many ways. The City-States of Greece and The Persian Empire had great educational systems. Both were prodigies in warfare and solving problems in their own countries. They had unbelievable ideas of warfare
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