Athens Vs. Sparta Throughout the ancient world there were two dominating empires. (S) The Athenian City (polis) and the Spartan empire. These two cities were both powerful and famous but significantly different. However‚ the city of Athens was by far a much more influential and powerful city-state in comparison to Sparta. Although both the city-states had their own strengths such as their government‚ social structure and their military tactics‚ Athens was a pivotal city that still to this day effects
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I am Lycon‚ I was born in Athens in 460 BCE into a family of sophisticated middle class individuals. I don’t like to think of myself as the best‚ but the Athenian community consider my family to be one of the more fortunate families in society. I have had a great deal of experience with that reprobate of a man that we call Socrates. I am here today with my fellow accusers‚ Meletus and Anytus‚ to prove that Socrates is guilty. I feel that Athens would be a much better place if Socrates were put
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all knowing knowledge and splendid skill to their children. This stabilizes the senate to only contain smart and wise people. This helps encourage the senate’s flow of great thoughts. This helps stabilizes the senate’s sense of justice. While the Athenians let the the committee that oversaw the assembly‚ be decided by a lottery from a general citizenry‚ according to Document E. In lotteries‚ power might possibly fall into the hands of people that are careless or contain deep hatred about their state
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their region. Due to the mountains in Greece‚ a unified empire could not be formed‚ therefore many city-states or polis’ were created. The isolation from the rest of Greece caused each city-state to form their own character‚ goals‚ laws and customs. This is evident when you compare Athens and Sparta. The Spartan culture focuses on military training from the young age‚ while the Athenians encourages individualism and a focus in the arts. However the creation of city –states‚ as opposed to one unified
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fertile valleys‚ with many farms. Athens became rich because Attica also had valuable sources of various types of material‚ which allowed them to trade with other city-states (Ancient Greece:Athens‚ source 5). As the ancestor of modern democracy‚ Athenian lower and middle classes had a quite well social status‚ which shows the equal of human rights. The education in Athens was well-designed and advanced‚ that most of their people were able to have education till primary school and they would
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Aristophanes (c.447-c.380 BC) was an ancient Athenian playwright and his plays are the extant example of Attic Old Comedy. He wrote during the Golden Age of Athens (c. 5th Century BC)‚ a period of political hegemony‚ and survived the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) among other events that shaped the social and political messages behind his plays. Regarded by many as the Father of Comedy‚ Aristophanes used a range of humor devices in his plays‚ such as Wasps (422 BC)‚ Frogs (405 BC)‚ to provide socio-political
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how Themistocles tricked Sparta as a whole; when Athens came under attack by Persian forces and had large portions of its walls destroyed‚ Sparta insisted it keep its walls unrepaired as a sort of memorial. Themistocles‚ however‚ instructed the Athenians to repair the wall and then left for Sparta to stall for time‚ only admitting the deceit once the
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the Greek polis. Electra’s actions actually contradict everything we said in class. Euripides portrays her with a more masculine role so that is the opposite of what Greek Woman were supposed to. Keeping in mind the practical and ideal representations of women in Athenian society‚ this thesis will explore Electra and the ways in which she disrupted the maleordered society by playing both masculine roles and rebellious feminine roles which are far from the ideal expected by Athenian men. The
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social‚ public and economic life. David Cohen says that Athenian women participated in many activities such as working in fields‚ acting as nurse and many other activities. Women were considered week in front of men‚ role’s of men were given more importance than roles of women. The role of women may differ depending upon the class of the women or the region of Greece she belong. It is believed that Spartan women enjoyed more freedom than Athenian women. Women also participated in religious festivals
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their geographical isolation‚ had determined that Greek colonization of the Mediterranean would be an extension of isolated city-states. The Greek polis did not permit the building of a Greek empire‚ and the strict barriers to the extension of citizenship prevented any one city-state from becoming dominant. As we have seen from Greek history‚ the Athenians were on the way to creating an empire through their domination of the Delian League‚ but this trend was reversed in the Peloponnesian Wars. The
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