His reason for wanting to try these men was because they failed to retrieve the bodies of men after they lost a battle with the Sparta. It was illegal to propose such a thing as this. The generals were executed anyhow. Three years later the leaders of the Athens government forced Socrates to arrest and terminate Leon who was from the city of Salamis. The reason for this man’s
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occurred through the Peloponnesian War and Vietnam War. When I first look at the Peloponnesian War‚ I see a very troubling precedent. There were two sides that were just able to drive out the Persians from Greece‚ but both had equal parts of it. Sparta was able to dominate the land‚ while the Athenians were more dominant on the sea. With teamwork and effort they would have been unstoppable to stop‚ and they may still be running to this day from my perspective. However‚ when things seem to be working
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Persian Wars Persians wars were sequences of conflicts contested between Persia and ancient Greece‚ where the two were both ancient civilizations. The Greeks were successions of sovereign city states‚ and the most influential cities were Sparta and Athens. Athens had numerous celebrated philosophers and thinkers along having the privilege of being the first world’s democratic government. The people of Athens mostly depended on trade to obtain resources to be used to run the government. On the other
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Lysistrata and Myrrhine plotted a tease on Kinesias to display female dominance on men where Myrrhine did succeed drawing all the thirst from Kinesias yet ended up escaping from him. The strike of women generated massive bothersome to both Athens and Sparta men which brought immediate effects to two sides calling together a meeting to discuss on reclaiming their sex life. However‚ if Lysistrata had not ordered a sex strike at the beginning and where‚ instead‚ had demanded women to forfeit something else
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throughout history women have faced many challenges such as fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men and not being able to own property.Women were long considered weaker than men.Even in times like these some women were given a little more freedom than others. For example in class we learned that spartan women were more dominant in society compared to other women in Greece. Knowing this information it made me think how life was like for spartan women? What they did in their spare time
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forge a strong society. Any infant found to be inferior to Spartan standards was left to die of exposure. Beginning at age seven until early adulthood all male Spartan citizens with the exception of the heirs apparent to one of the two thrones of Sparta participated in a rigorous training and education program known as the Agoge. This training was broken up into
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In the 7th Century BC a new era of warfare strategy evolved. Before this new strategy‚ foot soldiers (known as hoplites) engaged in battle in the form of one mob for each army which on the command of their generals runs at each other and proceeds to hack blindly at the enemy with little to no direction other then to kill the enemy in front of them. This proved to be very messy and the tide of battle depended mostly on emotion and size of an army. In the name of strategy and organization‚ the phalanx
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Pheidippides a runner for the Athenians sent message to Sparta help them fight the large Persian force. In response the Spartans said they will not help until their religious festival is over which was when the moon was full (in 10 days). Herodotus states (6.110) that Miltiades was the general that gained the
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Before Philip of Macedon stepped in to unify Greece‚ Greece was broken up into territories and provinces. Also‚ before King Philip II came into power‚ Macedonia was unstable and was full of rural clans‚ which were all loosely tied under a hereditary empire. Philip inherited the unstable kingdom‚ from his brother‚ on the verge of a fall‚ and made it the most power state of its time. His military innovations revolutionized warfare‚ which was passed onto his son Alexander the Great who created the army
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that was a hiccup‚ his son Xerxes I led the invasions against the greek mainland. The size of Xerxes` forces were ginormous and he believed that the Greek forces would surrender after learning the size of their forces. The Greeks seeked help from Sparta which resulted in their Spartan leader who would lead the Greeks to victory. The spartans exemplified major courage as their men directed by Leonidas and many other greeks held off Xerxes` army at Thermopylae. Xerxes was amazed that the spartans didn’t
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