The success of the Delian league can be seen in peace enjoyed by members of the league. This is seen in the protection offered by Athens from invasion of the Persian army. The Persians army were deadly as at that time‚ while many Greek- city state saw the Athenians soldier as the only army that can combat the Persian forces‚ for this reason they all ran to Athens‚ there was a coalition‚ hence the Delian league was formed and they were enjoying the coalition. The coalition which was popularly called
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Persia’s status as a superpower provided King Darius I no uncertainty to begin a reply to the lonian led the offense‚ and try a full takeover with defenses of a Greek force led by Athens‚ short of Spartans (due to their tardiness). This led to the first failed Persian invasion attempt in 490 BEC. Quickly after‚ there was still another loss attempt in 480 BCE led by emperor Xerxes‚ successor‚ and son of King Darius I. Assure this
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government and military was a lot more than that‚ and this document can teach you more. The Greek government was different from our present government and so was their military. The ancient Greek democracy was very different from the US’s democracy. Athens is the best-documented and most studied polis in ancient Greece. A polis was different on its attention on participation. A polis is normally translated as city-state‚ but was more of a “citizen-state” in which Greeks ruled themselves directly. “Their
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possibilities and contradictions. It is marked by the fact that the title of the play spells out the lead character of the play‚ a female. Furthermore‚ it portrays the women of Athens as teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War. This was fantastical‚ of course in the Athens of 411 BC. The women didn’t have a vote. They had no say in the matters of the state. They could not walk out into the city streets without their husband or a slave moving around
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victory. With both of these great city-states located so close together in Hellas‚ there differences would ultimately lead to dissension. Throughout the course of this paper‚ I hope to explain the reasoning behind the dissension between Sparta and Athens‚ made war between these former allies inevitable. Whenever there is an argument or war there is always differences between both parties involved. In order to understand the causes of the Peloponnesian War‚ we must look at their differences. One of
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evidenced. However‚ if Athens was a democracy‚ to function stably and in keeping with its principles‚ this equality could not reasonably be confined to the political system. Socially‚ economically: these two further areas could determine whether demokratia meant so much to the Athenians that its values permeated the polis as a
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It can be an outlet for social angst. At the time Lysistrata was written‚ Athens‚ a superpower of their time‚ had just lost a battle with Sparta. This probably shattered the conceptions of Athenians. And as a result‚ Aristophanes used a ribald comedy about the less-than-citizen women of Sparta and Athens. Athens had been part of the Delian league set up as an alliance to fight the other superpower of the time‚ Persia. Athens had gained many ships by impressment and by taxes‚ so they had a large naval
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“The Restoration of the Athenian Empire” Our walls are crumbling and our fleet is minute. We here in Athens are unable to collect tribute from other city-states and are often in threat of being attacked. Our fleet is defenseless and weak. The Democratic fraction‚ propose that we spend our time and hard earned money on the rebuilding of our walls and fleet. That way Athens can dangerously collect tributes from other Greek city-states. The Democrats also would like to commence in hazardous military
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true. Pericles goes on and on about how great the Athens city-state had become a strong democratic government. “He also talks about how they accept everyone into their city-state and give them the same rights as the Athens people regardless if they are foreigners”. “Pericles even compares his city-state to that of the Spartans; while using slanderous and defaming words to describe their culture”. Pericles believes from reading his Oration that the Athens are better people because of their equally of
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States as a democracy‚ yet if one were to ask a citizen of Athens in XXX bc how they would classify the American government structure‚ I seriously doubt that they would agree. Athens on the other hand was a democracy‚ and a successful one for a short time. However‚ no country or state wants to be successful for just a short time‚ the longing is to rule sovereign for centuries upon centuries as a great and powerful nation. Unfortunately for Athens democratic state‚ this didn’t happen‚ somehow they digressed
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