Herodotus was a Greek historian whose work encompassed Western civilization involving conflicts between Greece and the Persian Empire. There were many differences between the Greeks and the Persians. For instance‚ the Greeks struggled to find freedom during 480 B.C – 400 B.C. They were determined to train their soldiers‚ especially Spartan warriors‚ to be brave‚ courageous‚ and strong for defensive purposes from Persian invasion. On the other hand‚ the Persians differed from the Greeks because
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that is blind to itself * Pericles become enamored by his success and his ability and it grew inside himself a rising quest for power and control that was now in charge hidden from himself which was driving him towards this war with Sparta and driving Athens in a disastrous direction 4: Oedipus is intelligent‚ quick-witted‚ bold‚ daring‚ quick to act‚ able * All qualities that Pericles ascribes to Athenians of his day in the funeral speech * They being Oedipus great results
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Many years ago‚ approximately 2500 years‚ there lived a group of people called the Spartans. A Spartan is a person from the Greek city of Sparta or the ancient Greek state of the same name (Connolly‚ pg 39). These people are part of the ancient Western Civilization and they are composed of the strongest most victorious warriors/soldiers of all time. Things were different back in those days but the Spartans had a vivid understanding that only the strongest survived. This allowed them to be the best
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The Ancient Greek city-states of the 5th century BCE took on one of the most powerful and dangerous empires of the ancient world in a struggle to maintain independence from the Persians. The Persians represented the opposite in ideals of everything that is Greek and threatened the end of political sovereignty‚ higher thinking‚ and innovation. Overcoming the Persians was a critical accomplishment by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian wars of the 5th century and can be attributed to their superior strategizing
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ATHENS In Athens the popular viewpoint of the time was that the state and its government were set up to benefit the individual citizen. The training of boys‚ both physical and mental‚ should be for citizenship and for living‚ not just for warfare. Such education involved the cultivation of the mind even more than the body‚ and had as its goals the attainment of character‚ taste‚ and‚ above all‚ sophrosyne‚ or patience‚ moderation‚ and good behavior in word‚ thought‚ and daily actions. In Athens
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ENGLISH HL World Literature Paper 1 The influence of the Id of the characters in “Lysistrata” and “Candide” on their ego and super ego Freud theorized that the psyche was sectioned into 3 segments; the id‚ the ego and the super ego. According to his theory‚ Freud believes that the id wants whatever feels good at the time with no regard for the reality of the situation (Id‚ Ego‚ Superego np). For example‚ “a child is hungry‚ the id wants food‚ therefore the child cries” (Id‚ Ego‚ Superego
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1. What does 19th-century poet‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ mean by “We are all Greeks”? What were the two ancient Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean Sea? What myths or characteristics are these two ancient civilizations known for? He means that modern individuals- profoundly influenced by the Hellenic ideals of reason‚ beauty‚ and the good life on earth. Two bronze age civilization of the Aegean sea were the mycenaeans and the maritime. They were known for being prosperous and seafaring. 2. Who is
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In the Ancient Gallery in the Chazen Museum of Art‚ there is a bell krater from Attica‚ Greece that was made around 460-450 BCE. It is a ceramic vase that is in excellent condition with the exception of a few chips on the red-figure decoration. The Bell Krater (figure 1‚ figure 2) stands under two feet tall and is just over one foot in width. Overall‚ the scene and design style on this krater is mostly consistent throughout the entire body of the vase‚ but there are a few formal elements that separate
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a royal family. After proving to be a bad general he was exiled and spent twenty years in Thrace. During his time in exile Thucydides took advantage of his time and wrote ‘The Peloponnesian War’‚ which is an account of the war between Athens and Sparta 431 – 404BC. His history is divided into eight books; books 1-4 deal with the first ten years of the Peloponnesian War and the peace of Nicias (431-21). The conflicted years between 421 and 413 are dealt with in the remainder of the work‚ books
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