(Modern): Cosmopolitan Isolated and laid back. Culture (Ancient): Forward looking Laid back Military: not as military based‚ as military service was optional mandatory military service Outlook (Ancient): Democratic Oligarchic Ancestry: Ionian Descent Descendants of the Dorian invaders Latitude: 37 58’ 37 4’ Longitude: N 23 43’ E N 22 26’ E Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)The historical period of ancient Greece is unique in world history as the first period attested directly in proper
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and Persia over almost half a century. The Persian Wars started from two conflicts that occurred between 490 and 479 B.C.E and set against the Persian Empire against the Greek city-states. The conflict began after Athens and Eretria helped the Ionians in their revolution against Persia. The first Persian War was the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. The Persians sailed down the coast of Greece and landed at the bay of Marathon‚ about 40 miles north from Athens. The Athenian army was led by General
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Three Muses invented the sounds in a Lyre‚ a musical instrument. Four Muses invented the four known dialects in the language Attica‚ Ionian‚ Aeolian and Dorian. Five muses invented the five human senses. Seven muses invented the seven chords of the lyre‚ the celestial zones‚ planets and the seven sounds of the Greek
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emergence of modern Greek literature (11th - 15th century) 1.1 Acritic songs 1.2 Romances 1.3 Tales set in the classical world 2 Cretan literature (15th-17th centuries) 3 Enlightenment era (17th century-1821) 4 19th century literature (1821-1880) 4.1 Ionian or Heptanese School of Literature 4.2 Historiography 4.3 Folklore 4.4 Romantic or First Athenian School of poetry 5 Late 19th - Early 20th century literature (1880-1930) 5.1 E. Roidis‚ G. Vizyinos 5.2 1880s Generation or New Athenian School 5.3 C
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the battle when Napoleon humiliated Prussian’s Frederick Williams’ army at Jena near Nuremburg‚ and the Battle of Friedland where he defeated the Russian army. Since Russia lost‚ they signed the treaty of Tilsit on july 1807 (559). Russia lost the Ionian Islands in the Aegean Sea‚ and Prussia lost western Germany and a bit of Poland. Russia was also forced to “accept the territorial settlements in western europe”. France in return promised an alliance with Russia to defend and aid from the Ottoman
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Part I. INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS Definition. What is Philosophy? There are a number of definitions of philosophy given by many thinkers and they vary according to their interests and orientations. Generally‚ philosophy is regarded as perhaps the most obstruse and abstract of all subjects that seems apart from ordinary life. Although quiet a number of people may think of it as a being remote from every normal interest‚ it may be inferred that all of us have some philosophical views‚ whether we are
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in 490 BC and lead to the rise of the city of Athens and the fall of the Persian Empire. The cause of the battle was the The Ionian Revolt which happened in 499-493 BC‚ the story is that Histiaeus didn’t like his long exile beyond the Tigris and wanted to go back to Ionia. He sent a message to Aristagoras on the head of a slave to tell him to start a rebellion. The Ionians got help from the Athenians but they saw the revolt was going to fail so left after they had burnt down Sardis according to Herodotus
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about instruments used in hymns or songs. 3. Who were troubadours? What was their music like? Troubadours were traveling poet-musicians who traveled‚ singing and performing for the nobility. Their music was usually of them and an instrument. 4. Ionian‚ Dorian‚ Phyrgian‚ Lydian‚ Mixolydian‚ Aeolian & Locrian. Dorian mode in C begins and ends on D. 5. What is polyphonic music? How does it differ from monophonic music? Polyphonic- uses 2 or more independent melodies‚ Monophonic- uses 1 melody Critical
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the war between the Persians and Greeks dates back nearly 15 years beforehand in 494 BC‚ at the Ionian revolt. During this time and age‚ the Persian Empire is a huge world power and have conquered a majority of the ancient world. Ionia is a small area of land off the coast of present day Turkey‚ near Greece. It had already been conquered by the Persian Empire‚ and was populated by Greeks. The Ionians revolted against the Persian rule and called for assistance from Greece. Out of the many polis’ in
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blazing the territorial capital of Persia‚ Sardis. Be that as it may‚ they were constrained to pull back as a result of their overwhelming misfortunes. In view of this‚ Ruler Darius I‚ the Persian lord‚ pledged to blaze these two Greek locales. When the Ionian rebellion finished‚ Lord Darius started his arrangements in vanquishing Greece. He started his plot in 490 BC and effectively vanquished Eretria. He then sent his troops to Athens who arrived in a straight close to the Marathon‚ a town in Athens.
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