Lysistrata Characters: Lysistrata - Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. Lysistrata gathers the women of Sparta and Athens together to solve these social ills and finds success and power in her quest. Lysistrata is the least feminine of the women from either Athens or Sparta‚ and her masculinity helps her gain respect among the men. Cleonice- is the next-door neighbor of Lysistrata and is the first to show up at Lysistrata’s meeting
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In the first article‚ Herodotus argues that custom is king. Herodotus wanted to make a point that‚ even when given a better custom‚ the people will always prefer their own over anything offered or different. He tried to argue this by stating the fact their King‚ Cambyses‚ was insane because he was mocking and insulting the religious practices of other cultures. He proceeded to tell a story about Darius after he took the kingdom. The story involved two groups of people and their moral view on cannibalism
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The Spartan Phalanx is a powerful painting created by John Becker depicting the 2011 Michigan State football players as warriors and as Spartans. In its description‚ John Becker explains that he wanted to create a picture showing the Michigan State football players as a phalanx in Greek marching formation. Long ago‚ the Greeks used that attack formation to strike fear into their opponents and to show off their organization and stature. I think that Becker was able to create that image by contrasting
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There were three social classes in Sparta and four in Athens. Spartan classes were the Spartiates‚ perioeci‚ and helots. The Spartiates were native Spartans with political rights and served in the army. The perioeci were foreigners who carried out most of the trade in Sparta. Helots were slaves who came from the lands that the Spartans had conquered (Sparta.net). These helots were generally treated better than other Greek slaves; they kept a portion of the crops they farmed‚ lived as a family‚ could
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What was it like to grow up in ancient Sparta? Growing Up Spartan Growing up in Sparta was not easy. The first thing you had to do was to survive the beginning of your life. The most important thing for all Spartan children was to grow up to be a good soldier‚ so the city’s leaders inspected every baby soon after birth. If a baby wasn’t healthy and strong‚ they would take it up into the mountains‚ and they would leave it there to die. Both boys and girls trained as soldiers. Their
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I believe that the Legalist idea of government is Sparta because to the Legalists‚ strength not goodness was a ruler’s greatest virtue. Many feudal rulers chose Legalism as the most effective way to keep order. So in my opinion Sparta was a more Legalist idea of government because of that they were very harsh on their people for many reasons. One form of it was that as Sparta was a warrior society‚ so from an early age‚ boys trained for a lifetime in the military. Officials of the government examined
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Athens and Sparta In Ancient Greece‚ two competitive cities formed with similar beliefs but completely different lifestyles. Although‚ both Athens and Sparta shared similar religious views and permitted slavery‚ their social standards were different. Athens valued education tremendously‚ giving men a full schooling while Sparta didn’t prioritize education since they valued their military training more. Sparta held a higher social rank of women than Athens since women were free citizens
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Global Culture (A block) Peter Qiu John Baker 10/27/2016 Rough Draft Athens was the largest city in Greece‚ located at the Attica peninsula. The name Athens was come from the Goddess of Athena‚ who is the protector of Athens. Between the mountains were 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
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What are the three definitions of "demos"? The word “demos” had three different definitions during the archaic period. They were used to define either 1) the division of land into smaller sections 2) a classification of Athenian citizens‚ and 3) a group of troublesome individuals. 1) In 570 BC‚ Cleisthene developed a reformation of politics and social standings in Athens by dividing Athens and areas of the Attic peninsula into ten smaller sections of land which was referred to as
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here is a reason Sparta is still taught in schools today.Sparta was a Greek city state that sits on the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a military based city state. The Spartan strengths outweigh the weaknesses because they had an advanced military‚ women were respected‚ and they trained their soldiers at a young age.To begin with‚ Sparta had an advanced military.In Document C‚ the text states “Spartan krypteia [crip-TEE-a]‚ a kind of secret police or special-operation unit.”The krypteia was a group
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