Athens is the most famous and most powerful city in Ancient Greece with many types of law and rulers. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ATHENS is democracy‚ and it’s actually true‚ Athenians did invent the democracy and it’s still been using in many countries today‚ including Australia‚ America‚ the United Kingdom and Germany. Athens was founded a long way back‚ in 800 BC when the dark age ended in 860BC‚ and was ended when Alexander the Great in 360BC. The Athenian government
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almost took down the entire Spartan Empire during the Second Messenian War. After their almost defeat‚ the Spartans decided to turn their empire into basically a military school. The people they conquered‚ had to abide by Spartan laws and rules. The Athens were ruled by a council of only nobles. They did not have any written laws‚ they only had the nobles that presided over the land and made all the rules. Unfortunately‚ the nobles did not always agree which caused arguments between them.
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Athens “Golden Age of Athens” Achievements of: -Golden Age of Athens took place in 5th century BC (480-430 BCE) -Golden Age took place after Peloponnesian wars (Athens verse Sparta) and before the Persian wars -Achievements: Greeks excelled in philosophy history (Herodotus and Thucydides) Drama (Sophocles and Aeschylus) Sculpture (Balance between realism and idealism) Arts Architecture (Parthenon 447-432 BCE) Aristotle on government‚ ethics and epistemology: -Aristotle was a pupil of Plato
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destructive battle between Athens and Sparta‚ along with their respective allies. The assertion that Athens could not effectively handle the Peloponnesian War is accurate for several reasons. There are multiple arguments to support this claim. With considerable financial resources and a strong naval force‚ Athens went into the war prepared. But a string of tactical and strategic missteps undermined their position. The Sicilian Expedition (415–413 BCE)‚ in which Athens sent a sizable navy to subjugate
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create a new form of government. After rule of tyrants of the aristocratic class and a struggle for power‚ Cleisthenes sided with the common people of Athens and brought the first democracy to existence. From then‚ democracy developed and flourished. As Athens was building the foundation of government‚ they had to live with the threat of war from Sparta‚ their greatest rival‚ and the Persian Empire. But since democracy had already taken route‚ it was soon to prove that in the long run‚ it could defeat
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The roles for women in both Sparta and Athens had similarities and difference‚ but Sparta’s women had more rights than women in Athens. Women in Athens had little to no rights; they could not own land‚ vote‚ and their primary role were to be the housekeepers. If a women’s spouse passed away she could not keep the land‚ unless she married someone else before they took the land away. Women in Athens were not allowed to partake in decisions concerning the government in Athens or enter into any contracts
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MEANING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Defined as the study of the state in all its elements‚ aspects and relationships e.g. government and its organs‚ institutions through which the state functions. Is also a systematic analysis to discover not only about the state but as well as political attitudes‚ controversial issues concerning state operation‚ powers and functions Greek The word politics has its origins in Ancient Greece. All of the cities in Ancient Greece‚ such as Athens‚ Sparta‚ and Corinth
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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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has been said that Sparta had two separate histories‚ its own and that of its image abroad...Considering how much was written about Sparta in antiquity‚ it is remarkable how confused‚ contradictory and incomplete the picture is. Partly this is because the mirage is constantly cutting across the reality‚ distorting it and often concealing it altogether; and partly because the Spartans themselves were so completely silent.With respect to our knowledge of the helots in ancient Sparta‚ how accurate do
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During the Greco-Persian Wars‚ Athens and Sparta fought side-by-side as a team to defeat the Persians. However‚ after they defeated the Persians‚ Athens gained even more power‚ which led to conflicts between the prior allies. As a result‚ these two powerful city-states fought one another in the Peloponnesian War. During the late 5th century BCE‚ Thucydides‚ a historian of this time period‚ described the events of the Peloponnesian War in his book History of the Peloponnesian War (5.84-116). In this
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