The role of women in Ancient Greece all depended on the city where one lived. In Sparta‚ women were more valued and respected by men‚ so the men were willing to give them more rights and opportunities to make their own decisions. In Athens‚ men had a more traditional view on women and believed that they shouldn’t belong in society; so therefore‚ men primarily monitored the women actions. Sparta lies in the Peloponnesus‚ in the south. The Spartans set up a brutal and strict system of control. Assemblies
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send him to his death just a few years before he would have died naturally? He was charged with not believing in the gods worshipped by the city‚ introducing new divinities and for corrupting the youth. Socrates was a freethinker who went around Athens probing his fellow Athenians with questions and dialectal interrogations about religion and politics. He held contemporary views‚ that when he expressed them‚ provoked his listeners to anger. In 423 B.C.‚ Socrates produced a play called Clouds‚
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stood. The East Pediment’s statues depicted an armor-clad Athena recently born from the head of Zeus with other mythological figures looking on. The West Pediment’s statues depicted Athena winning a contest against Poseidon and becoming the patron of Athens. The exterior frieze below the pediments had sculptures in low relief that showed the Greeks winning legendary battles. The interior frieze that lined the cella showed a procession that was part of a yearly Athenian festival. This frieze was made
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The development of the Greek polis--whether a military oligarchy in Sparta or democracy in Athens--allowed citizens to participate in political issues. This concept of the "rule by the people‚" mainly in Athens‚ gave the citizens a sense of freedom and harmony. Greeks applied the label "polis" to all of the states‚ regardless of their political distinctions‚ because each was a koinonia‚ a community. After this period‚ the concept of the polis began to change. The regulation of power changed‚ along
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on conflicts. According to the historian Thucydides‚ the greatest conflict was the Peloponnesian war between the Athenians and Spartans‚ along with each of their allies. In the opinion of Thucydides‚ the Peloponnesian war was due to the growth of Athens and the fear‚ the growth caused in the Spartans and their allies (Thucydides‚ Book I‚ chapter I). Accounts of events by Thucydides‚ for Francis Cornford‚ are not merely historic‚ but rather works of art. The History of the Peloponnesian War according
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World 500-440 BC Account for the democratic reforms of Athens during this period. Athens was greatly affected by the Persian Wars and the aftermath of those wars. Significant changes were made to the internal government of Athens. The changes that took place between 500 and 440 BC were part of the democratisation process‚ but they must also be seen as responses to the Persian Wars and as consequences of the growing imperialism of Athens. It is also important to understand the interrelationship
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The Acropolis of Athens has stood as a monument of triumph to the people of Athens for centuries past. The temples within its walls were used to worship Greek gods like Athena and Poseidon. Rising over three hundred feet above the city of Athens‚ it can clearly be seen why it is called the Acropolis‚ which loosely translated means top of city. It isn’t the only acropolis in Greece‚ but it is revered more than the others because of its almost flawless planning in where each building is placed. It
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It is a dream about peace‚ conceived at a time when Athens was going through the most desperate crisis she had known since the Persian War. All that most Athenians could see was that the war was going on as usual and there seemed to be no way out of it other than the unthinkable option of capitulation. But comedy specializes in doing the impossible‚ and in Lysistrata fantasy supplies a way out. Even in fantasy‚ though‚ it is recognised that Athens cannot end the war on its own: in the play women of
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life. In Athens‚ this meant the exclusion of women‚ slaves‚ and foreign residents‚ or roughly 85% of the total population of Attica” (Spielvogel 6). What this is showing is that Athens is a male dominant society‚ where women children slaves as well as foreign residents are excluded from public life and almost all public aspects of life including their government. As seen by the exclusion of women‚ slaves‚ and foreign residents‚ in public life‚ Pericles is incorrect in saying that Athens is a democracy
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Athens and Sparta Athens and Sparta were the two largest Greek city-states of the Ancient world. They were the biggest of rivals‚ two towering cities at their peak‚ the most influential cultural‚ military‚ and trade powers of western civilization in the first millennium B.C. They are sharply contrasting yet strikingly similar‚ setting the stage for the Peloponnesian War. Their differences were the effect of geographical isolation but they began with the same base of ideas on which to build.
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