the first year of the Peloponnesian war provides an excellent vision of the things that made the warriors and citizens of Athens strive to achieve honor or Arete. Pericles speaks of valor‚ ancestry‚ parenthood and many more honorable facets of the Athenian society and it’s implication within it’s society and societies beyond‚ “ [F]or Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation…[R]ather the admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours”. (Thucydides
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Pericles Notes - Introduction - More than 30 years of leadership marked Pericles as one of the most important figures in Athenian and Greek History. From 461BC to 430BC‚ he oversaw the expansion of Athenian democracy‚ the consolidation of the empire‚ the growing prosperity of Athens‚ the creation of social welfare‚ and the blossoming of Athenian culture. Background - Family Connections - Pericles was born about 494BC into a wealthy‚ noble family. His mother‚ Agariste‚ was an Alcmaeonid
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is in the hands‚ not of a few‚ but of the whole peoples [Doc. 4]”. Any citizen of Athens was allowed into the Athenian Assembly‚ in which members may speak of anything they wish (provided they could handle and control a crowd). But‚ when they say ‘citizens’‚ they mean free men at least 18 years of age whose parents were also citizens [Doc. 8]. These citizens made up a sixth of the Athenian population‚ well around 50‚000 people (who were mainly landowning farmers) [Doc. 2]. I digress. Back to the subject
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major forms of government existed‚ democracy and oligarchy. The city-states of Athens and Sparta are the best representatives of democracy and oligarchy‚ respectively. The focus of the times was directed towards military capabilities‚ while the Athenians were more interested in comfort and culture. It was the oligarchy in Sparta that put a war-like attitude as its first priority and best met the needs of Ancient Greece. These factors empowered Sparta and led to Sparta Vs Athens In Ancient Greece
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“written law” | Thesmos | That which is laid down‚ law‚ ordinance (Draco’s word) | Graphe | Public suit; permits a third person to bring suit on behalf of another in certain circumstances; also means “writing” | Dike Exoules | Procedure where Athenian law provided a means by which defendant (i.e. a defendant whom a jury found liable for damages) would have to pay an extra fine to the State if he failed to pay the prosecutor. | Eisangelia | Providing charge/accusation for tyranny; “things that
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of governance was soon to be changed into a more democratic one‚ by a man whom they would come to respect in time. Solon was the son Execestides‚ a charitable man with great social influence and one who was believed to be descended from an ancient Athenian king named Codrus. Solon grew up to be a virtuous and thoughtful man‚ his values and a sense of justice greatly influenced the way he crafted the laws of Athens and in the way he ruled. At the beginning of his rule Solon came under great pressure
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seemed a reversal of the proper‚ rational order of society” (Athenian Democracy). They did not see this as equal rights but rather as the poor and uneducated having control over the rich and powerful. The people of those times saw it as sort of a modern stock company: “democracy is like a company where all shareholders have an equal say regardless of the scale of their holding; one share or ten thousand‚ it makes no difference. (Athenian Democracy)” Although there was a large controversy on who deserved
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people heavily influence the government’s decisions. The Athenian government was a democracy: everyone was equal under the law and “no man is kept out of public office by the obscurity
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explains why Athens must continue to support the war‚ and tells why Athens must live up to the fallen soldiers of the Peloponnesian war. Pericles’ Funeral Oration tells us multiple things‚ the Funeral Oration gives historians a glimpse into what Athenians might have been feeling at the time. In a time of war a country’s moral‚ and spirits are down. In the text Pericles’ says “ What I want to do is‚ in the first place‚ to discuss the spirit in which we faced our trails and also our constitution and
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Jurisprudence- legal philosophy: is the study and theory of law Hope to gain a deeper understanding of law‚ natural law‚ civil law‚ and law of nations Positivism: is the study of philosophy of science based on the view that in the social as well as natural sciences data derived from sensory experience‚ and logical and mathematical treatments of data that come from all authoritative knowledge Natural law is a system of law that is determined by nature Volksgeist: Gottfried Herder used
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