more than ever. Although the way Rome fought Carthage was different from how America invaded Iraq‚ there were still some similarities. One similarity between the early and modern soldiers is that they would both wear armor. During the times of Pericles and Julius Caesar‚ the average soldier would wear iron armor and a helmet to protect him from being pierced by a blade.
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tells that Socrates acknowledges that there were two women besides his mother that influenced this believe and works. One of these two women was a witch and priestess from Mantinea who taught him about love. The other women was a mistress of a Pericles who taught him the art of rhetoric. Socrates lived during a time that gods did not create the world but were created by man. The people during his era had to worship‚ sacrifice their lives‚ and honor them with praises because they were afraid
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Western Civilization February 18‚ 2010 Essay Question 1 According to our lecture notes and Frontline’s “From Jesus to Christ” there exist similarities between Christianity and Mithraism‚ the Essenes‚ Pharisees and Sadducees. For example in comparison with the Mithraism‚ Christianity also believes that Jesus (Messiah) was born from a virgin mother and that shepherds attended his birth. Both Mithraism and Christianity believed that there was a hell and a heaven and that good versus evil existed
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‚ was set up similar to a republic. Document 3 describes the democratic form of government that was used to rule Greece. One of the reasons Greece was so successful was the system of government in place favored fairness and equal opportunity. Pericles was the greatest Athenian democratic ruler. This proved to be an intellectual achievement because it shows that the rulers of Greece at this time were able to form a system of government that was able to effectively rule the people. As seen in document
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Athenian domination” (Rawlings‚ 1997‚ p. 6). This was brought to a head when the Athenians moved the treasury from Delos to Athens. Plutarch described the reaction of the members of the Delian League as though they were being controlled by a tyranny‚ as Pericles did not feel a need to account for the funds to the league members (Plutarch‚ 75 A.C.E.‚ para 36-37). As unrest ensued‚ Athens would use its control of the Delian League to suppress revolts of members that wished to secede from the alliance. Eventually
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the area of Government. Government is a system of control citizens‚ societies and states. It is important to have a government so you can control society as well as your armed forces for protection. As seen in document 3‚ which is a excerpt from Pericles’ funeral oration‚ the ancient greeks were one of the first to have a democracy. Though the Athenians had a democracy it was limited and direct. This means that only males from the Aristocracy could vote and that there was a lottery to determine
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From Ancient civilizations to the reformation there has been a lot of significant changes and ideas. The most significant people‚ events‚ human achievements‚ and time periods are Augustus‚ The plague‚ Religion and the Golden Ages‚ Augustus was the most strong and prominent ruler of the Roman empire. The Bubonic plague killed millions of people during the middle ages. Religion has been apart of the world since the beginning with polytheism and later monotheism. The Golden ages has had a huge impact
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Can virtue be taught? This is the main question discussed and argued over by Plato in the Protagoras and in the last section of the Meno. In these readings Plato gives different arguments that favor both sides positively and negatively. In the evidence I found in analyzing the Protagoras and the end of the Meno one thing was clear. The answer to this question according to the arguments seen in the readings tended to lean towards the negative. By negative I mean that Plato seems to believe that virtue
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PLATO’S LIFE ➢ Plato was born in Athens in 428/27 BCE‚ one year after death of Pericles. ➢ His father traced his lineage to the old kings of Athens and before them to the god Posiedon. ➢ His‚ mother Perictione‚ was the sister of Chramides and the cousin of Critias. ➢ In such a family atmosphere‚ Plato learned much about public life and developed at an early age a sense of responsibility for public political service. ➢ Around 387 BCE‚ when he was about 40 yrs. Old
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