Athenian resources and strategy. Athens based their ability to gather funds from the Delian League as an important part to financing for the war. Naval expeditions could be expensive and Athens would run into problems because they could not afford it. The expedition to Sicily would restrict Athens and their funds and at the battle of Aegospotami with the defeat from Sparta they could no longer afford to rebuild and so the war would come to an end. Athen will use their strong fortification and their
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and beliefs that affect a person‚ group‚ or culture’s way of thinking. Ancient Greece was filled with different ideologies throughout the years; almost every polis with a different and unique set of values. Sparta had its strict militarism and aristocracy‚ suppressing people’s free thought. Athens had a mostly open‚ democratic‚ system‚ allowing more room for individual interpretations. And the empire of Alexander the Great that‚ despite having an absolute ruler‚ supported a diversity of ideas and allowed
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Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered‚ the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history’s most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle‚ a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the
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years of war between Athens and Sparta. The Peloponnesian War‚ one the largest conflicts in the Greek City State era. When Thucydides wrote about the war between Athens and Sparta he says: “beginning at the moment that it broke out‚ and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.” According to Thucydides‚ the Peloponnesian War of the end of the fifth century BCE arose when Sparta start afraid of the rising power of Athens. Sparta decided to wage a
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society of no other than Sparta. (2nd SLIDE TURN) We can see here the representation of the stereotypical ideal of a Spartan. But what grants this nation this profound ideal of strength‚ who are they? And more importantly what truly is Sparta? To understand the depths of time one must start from the beginning. The Greek mythology behind Sparta told that the founder of the city was Lacedaemon‚ a son of Zeus‚ who gave his name to the region and his wife’s name to the city. Sparta‚ also known as Lacedaemon
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Introduction The History of the Peloponnesian War is a detailed account chronicling the conflict between two rival states‚ Athens and Sparta. Tension between the clashing states began in 431 B.C.‚ which led to an ancient war between Athens and Sparta‚ ending with the defeat of Athens 27 years later. This was a war between the greatest land power (the Spartans) and the great naval power of the Athenians. Writing in real-time‚ Thucydides applied logic and reason when explaining the causes and reasons
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activities as a citizen. Greece was divided in city-states and two of them developed a high level in education: Sparta and Athens. The nature of the city-states varied greatly‚ and this was also true of the education they considered appropriate. Both daily life and education were very different in Sparta and Athens or in the other ancient Greek city-states. Sparta. The goal of education in Sparta‚ an authoritarian‚ military city-state‚ was to produce soldier-citizens. “The purpose of education was to
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Ancient Greece had one of the greatest militaries of all time. All throughout Greece there were different city-states. Each city-state had a different style of war. In Athens‚ they had the largest navy in Greece and fought battles on water. Sparta dedicated all their men to military and were all soldiers. The Greek civilization began around 2800 BC and started in the bronze age. The Greek military was the most important part of Greek Civilization because it protected Greece against others‚ with good
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Lysistrata Characters: Lysistrata - Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. Lysistrata gathers the women of Sparta and Athens together to solve these social ills and finds success and power in her quest. Lysistrata is the least feminine of the women from either Athens or Sparta‚ and her masculinity helps her gain respect among the men. Cleonice- is the next-door neighbor of Lysistrata and is the first to show up at Lysistrata’s meeting
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women in Athens and Sparta‚ “If the Family could afford one‚ Slaves did any duty outside the home‚ such as fetching water or shopping at the markets.” This in the eyes of the men keep their wife’s and children safe from harm and violation. Which was very important in Athens due to their
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