POLITICAL DIFFERENCES OF SPARTA AND ATHENS Athens and Sparta were two of the most powerful and well known cities among all the Greek nations. Most would find it easier to find more similarities among these two groups of mighty people. But there are some differences between these two power houses. For instance the way that these cities were governed and their political procedures and functions were quite different from each other. One major difference between the two cities was
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Ancient Athens was the first civilization to use democracy. They had a direct democracy which means all citizens voted on laws. There was no leadership position but there was a council‚ Citizens Assembly and courts. The council was made up of five hundred people‚ chosen randomly‚ who proposed laws and served for one year. The citizens assembly was made up of all citizens who voted on laws. The courts were five hundred to two thousand five hundred citizen jurors. To be a citizen in ancient Athens you
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size and duration. The Greece that Poe praised was primarily Athens during its golden age in the 5th century BC. The English poet John Milton called Athens "the eye of Greece‚ mother of arts and eloquence." Athens was the city-state in which the arts‚ philosophy‚ and democracy flourished. At least it was the city that attracted those who wanted to work‚ speak‚ and think in an environment of freedom. In the rarefied atmosphere of Athens were born ideas about human nature and political society that
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• Moses and God’s people. Moses was a man of a perfect faith and obedience. He loved God and he expressed it by loving His people unconditionally. Accordingly‚ Moses’ mind‚ words‚ and actions were coordinately working together to put to life God’s word and instructions for God’s people to understand and strictly follow the way he was modeling it. The Bible states that Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action (Acts 7:22); nonetheless‚ he honored God’s
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500 BCE: Rome or Athens? Who had more citizenship? In 500 BCE Rome and Athens invented citizenship. However‚ Rome was a little more generous with giving citizenship than Athens. Rome handed out citizenship more often than Athens‚ Rome also had more order in the Senate because they had about 300 people in the senate while Athens had about 40‚000 people taking part in the assembly. Rome also had more allies than Athens because they gave out citizenship to their conquered empires. In Rome‚ officials
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Pericles uses the speech of the Funeral Oration to promote Athens. He believed in his people and through this speech he was able to get the people to be proud to be Athenians. Athenians were very proud of their city and its customs. They had a great deal of respect for the warrior class and believed they were top members of their society. Warriors were classified as heroes. The funeral oration was to respect the ones who had died in battle or after battle to build this city into what it had become
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The Athenians valued philosophy‚ equality‚ and art. They weren’t afraid to challenge society views‚ which at the time many believed in mythology. Plato was the first to come close to Christianity beliefs by recognizing that invisible things in nature had an order and purpose. Plato inspired Aristotle to conclude that there has to be someone conducting that order‚ what we know as God. They weren’t as dedicated to a strong army as they were to education. During the Peloponnesian War the Pericles persuaded
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What work of art combines precision‚ detail‚ and philosophical ideas all in one painting? Raphael’s painting of “the school of Athens” does all that with his depiction of many of the greatest thinkers and philosophers such as Aristotle‚ Plato‚ Socrates‚ Epicurus‚ and many more. The painting was painted between 1509 and 1511 during the High Renaissance art period‚ a period in which artist are creating works with more balance and are characterized to be having a burst of creativity‚ and is a fresco
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The attitudes in Greek philosophy towards Athens and Sparta‚ as well as sympathies and actions comparable to those of Plato‚ can also be seen in the Twentieth Century. Henry Kissinger‚ President Nixon’s foreign policy adviser and later Secretary of State‚ is supposed to have remarked once‚ privately‚ that the United States was liable to lose the Cold War to the Soviet Union in the same way and for the same reasons that Athens lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta. While America‚ presumably‚ was enervated
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work‚ Stanza Della Segnatura has been influenced by Michelangelo’s work in Sistine Chapel. It is one of Raphels’s very famous and renowned works. One of the themes of Stanza Della Segnatura‚ the ‘School of Athens’‚ has been given the most importance than the work as a whole. School of Athens is the depiction of Raphael’s moods which reflects his beliefs and this is communicated by the artist’s placement of figures in the work‚ such as Plato and Aristotle standing right at the center in this case
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