Today I shall be arguing and elaborating upon the thesis that the battle at Thermopylae was instrumental in insuring the victory at Plataea against the Persian army as it allowed for Greece to build up its army’s in preparation for the upcoming battle. I shall attempt to prove this statement by discussing various aspects of the battle of Thermopylae and the battle of Plataea such as battle tactics‚ size of the Greek and Persian armies and the overall intent and outcome of both battles. The primary
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this are found as early as the Myceneans‚ who were constantly at war with others. Conflict continues in later civilizations‚ such as the battles of Marathon‚ Thermopylae‚ and Platea‚ all part of the Persian Wars. A very famous war between Athens and Sparta is the Peloponnesian War. The Peloponnesian War weakened Greek city-states‚ causing them to be vulnerable to the attacks by King Phillip II of Macedonia. King Phillip was able to conquer the city-states one by one‚ as they could not come together
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What was it like to grow up in ancient Sparta? Growing Up Spartan Growing up in Sparta was not easy. The first thing you had to do was to survive the beginning of your life. The most important thing for all Spartan children was to grow up to be a good soldier‚ so the city’s leaders inspected every baby soon after birth. If a baby wasn’t healthy and strong‚ they would take it up into the mountains‚ and they would leave it there to die. Both boys and girls trained as soldiers. Their
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Athens and Sparta. Athens had a very strict attitude toward women. Athenian women were not to be heard from and rarely seen. The women of Athens were viewed as inferior to men and their sole responsibilities were to produce offspring and care for the household (Herff n.d.). Women in Athens could not be citizens similarly to the slaves and outsiders of the community (McKay 2009). Spartan women on the other hand‚ though still viewed as lessor to men‚ had more rights. The women of Sparta enjoyed freedoms
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shows how Greek morality and politics were practiced in defining situations‚ alongside with displaying the chronology of the expedition. Xenophon wrote this story following being exiled from Athens after he fought under King Agesilaus II and Sparta against Athens at Coronea‚ alongside many other contributing factors. The Spartans then gave him land near Olympia where he wrote this account of the Persian Expedition; also known as the Anabasis and March of the Ten Thousand. With this given information
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Lecture Notes on Greek Civilization Greece part of the Balkan Peninsula maritime country in Southeastern Europe bounded in the north by Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Macedonia‚ in the south by the Mediterranean Sea‚ in the west by the Ionian Sea and in the east by the Aegean Sea known as the first “Western” civilization; reached the peak of its advancement in the 5th century BCE had no unified government and consisted of city states 4 Major Greek Tribes: 1. Acheans 2. Ionians 3. Dorians 4
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The Spartiate was considered a fierce and brutal warrior‚ excellent in physique‚ un-yielding in dedication‚ unmatched in combat‚ and constantly wiling to die for Sparta. This ideal warrior was created almost forcefully through the "physical‚ social and moral education" system‚ the agoge. Spartan education began soon after birth‚ where babies were inspected by Ephors and cast onto the slopes of Mt Taygetus if the Spartan health standards were not met. Boys were raised by their mothers until the age
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the Sea of Marmara and the south coast of the Black Sea. Their western colonization included the coasts of Albania‚ Sicily‚ southeastern Italy‚ the south coast of France‚ Corsica and Spain. The two most distinct city-states of Greece were Athens and Sparta. During this massive colonization period‚ one poet would forever change the way the Greeks lived their lives. The poet’s name was Homer. Around 750 B.C. Homer’s two works‚ the Illyad and the Odyssey‚ were becoming widely popular among the Greeks
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Every male Spartan had to pass through the Spartan education system - the agoge. This began at the age of seven and was completed at by the age of thirty when the Spartan would become a full Spartiate and receive the right to vote. The fact that a Spartan spent so much of his life in the agoge meant that there was a long time for the state imposed system to force him to have the same views. Plutarch tells us that the particularly intelligent young men in the agoge were chosen to be part of the
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The Three Major City-States In the Archaic Age(700-500 B.C.E.)‚ all of the city-states that existed in that period were different from each other. By examining three leading city-states of Greek civilization‚ Sparta ‚ Corinth and Athens ‚ the diversity of the Archaic Greece could be understood. The best way to understand this diversity is to approach these three city-states in three different aspects of societies. Examining them by politically‚ economically and culturally would be appropriate
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