In its early days‚ Sparta was social‚ and had contact with other city-states. Until‚ they made some drastic changes. They became warlike‚ and were almost undefeatable in land battle. Eventually‚ they built a fleet as well. Today‚ Sparta is well known for being the strongest‚ and most warlike of the ancient Greek city-states. Founded in the 10th century B.C.‚ Sparta was originally a social city-state‚ its people traded with other city-states‚ and craftsmen produced fine vases and metal workings. “The
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Thesis: Athens and the Mauryans differed in their political centralization and sponsorship of religion and were similar in having to defend themselves against the Persians. Topic Sentence: Athens and the Mauryans differed in their type of political control it had over people. Athens‚ as the most powerful city-state‚ was able to force other city-states into the Delian League often against their will whereas the Mauryan were organized into one single entity. Athens created a system‚ where the
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WOMEN IN CLASSICAL ATHENS IN THE SHADOW OF NORTH-WEST EUROPE OR IN THE LIGHT FROM ISTANBUL Being a woman in classical Athens cannot have been much fun‚ if one can rely on the majority of the accounts of women’s position in the Greek city-state. The Athenian democracy‚ traditionally held in high esteem in many other ways‚ was a democracy of the minority. Women‚ foreigners and slaves had no influence or true civil rights. They lived in the shadow of the Parthenon and the Acropolis. Sarah
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reference to Source Q and other sources‚ explain the role of writing and literature in Spartan society during this period Pre-Lycurgan Sparta has evidence of being a thriving centre for writing and literature but with the introduction of the great Rhetra the focus shifted to a utilitarian militaristic view although writing and literature did not disappear totally. Sparta contains evidence of being a literate society through Greek writers documentations and inscriptions found in temples even after the
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The Warriors of Ancient Sparta Sparta‚ also known as Lacedaemon‚ was an ancient Greek city-state located primarily in the present-day region of southern Greece called Laconia. Life was very different in ancient Sparta than it was in the rest of ancient Greek city-states. The Spartans were proud‚ fierce‚ capable warriors. No great works of art came out of Sparta. But the Spartans‚ both men and women‚ were tough‚ and the Greeks admired strength. The population of Sparta consisted of three main groups:
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treated women like the lesser of the two sexes. Why was Sparta the first to give women rights? In this article‚ we will compare Athens to Sparta. Sparta‚ however‚ was the first to give women a sufficient amount of their own rights. But why did Sparta finally decide to give women rights? Researchers say that it was their giant win over their rival city-state Messenia. Athens did not have a giant slave population 3 times the size of them‚ but with Sparta having that big of a slave population‚ it caused them
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481) The Sicilian military campaign of Athens proved to be one of the most disastrous military campaigns in ancient times. The loss of thousands of soldiers and sailors‚ hundreds of vessels and vast amounts of money from the treasury reduced tremendously the Athenian ability to wage war; however‚ even in spite of such a loss‚ Athens was still able to prolong the war for nine more years until the Spartans defeated Athens in 404 B.C. The downfall of Athens came as a result of Spartan military operations
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The Philosophy (School Of Athens) is a fresco located in the Stanza della Segnatura of the Vatican Palace in Rome‚ Italy‚ that dates back to sometime between 1509 and 1511‚ created by Raphael. Within the fresco‚ there are various classical elements that can be noted‚ such as the coffered ceilings. All of the philosophers or otherwise influential thinkers of the Classical Era are all congregated within a classical lyceum. A lyceum‚ or gymnasium‚ can otherwise be described as a school. For example
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Athens “Golden Age of Athens” Achievements of: -Golden Age of Athens took place in 5th century BC (480-430 BCE) -Golden Age took place after Peloponnesian wars (Athens verse Sparta) and before the Persian wars -Achievements: Greeks excelled in philosophy history (Herodotus and Thucydides) Drama (Sophocles and Aeschylus) Sculpture (Balance between realism and idealism) Arts Architecture (Parthenon 447-432 BCE) Aristotle on government‚ ethics and epistemology: -Aristotle was a pupil of Plato
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Political Thinking POL200Y1 September-17-2008 Thucydides as historian and theorist Athens and Sparta were the superpower of Greece Athens and Sparta led victory for Greece against Persian Athens are sea power and Sparta is on land After that Athens began to take power/empire over Greece He didn’t record exactly what happened but recreated them - moments He included his large/general judgements about human nature About human nature Democracy as a form of political regime
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