its importance and power. Sparta’s Allies Earlier‚ Sparta had been the military leader of the Greek world. Sparta had a set of loose alliances by means of individual treaties that extended to the Peloponnese‚ excepting Argos and Achaea. The Spartan alliances are referred to as the Peloponnesian League. Sparta Insults Athens When Athens decided to invade Thasos‚ Sparta would have come to the aid of the north Aegean island‚ had Sparta not suffered a timely natural disaster. Athens‚ still bound
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What do sources reveal about the lives of woman in Sparta? Sources reveal that the lives of woman in Sparta‚ that they were treated differently to spartiate men‚ they were not allowed to do majority if things that the Spartan men did‚ such as hunting‚ working‚ and most leisure activities such as watching cockfighting or boar fighting. Woman were to stay at home and do home duties such as cooking‚ cleaning and ultimately look after the children. Women were expected to raise children and to make
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I. In Greece the polis of Sparta was the number one military authority for the people and for the time period. There was nothing that the Spartans could not do when it came to war. From the time that Spartan men were born‚ they were evaluated for their future services to the Spartan society. Each baby was sent to have the ten‚ ten‚ one test done on them as explained in the novel‚ The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. This test was to check and make sure that there were no deformities. If there
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true origin of what exactly started the war. “The war started‚” according to Thucydides‚ “because of the growth of Athens alarmed Sparta” (Hunt 100). Although‚ Sparta was the first to attack; Athens contributed the cause for the attack from Sparta. Athens is the one to blame for the Peloponnesian War due to the fact that Athens was growing in power which scared Sparta and Athens mistreating Sparta’s allies‚ Pericles ignoring the ultimatum due to Sparta’s “refusal” to settle the dispute of the treaty
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result in the inevitable fall of one of the most notorious nations of all time. Sparta was a place‚ a people like no other. The way in which they managed their daily affairs lead to restriction of rights. The Spartan Idealism and Spartan Law aided in the collapse of Sparta. " Sparta stood for the complete antithesis to Athens‚ with here brilliant culture‚ freedom-loving but fickle democracy and cult of the individual. Sparta was a model of stability‚ order and discipline or of reaction‚ regimentation
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Controversy between Athens and Sparta has led many to fall victim to falsified information and assumptions‚ resulting in utmost bias. When individuals visit Sparta‚ they soon realize these “cold-blooded barbarians” have reasoning behind their actions. Most people judge Sparta for our unfair treatment of helots‚ even though we treat them equally and better than the Athenian slaves. Athenian propaganda displays us as horrible demons for having helots incorporated into our society. Helots‚ or serfs
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Grant Godfrey Film Appreciation 11/27/09 Glory or Death A Film Analysis of “300” Most people have heard the story of King Leonidas and the bold three hundred; but for the people that have never heard of the three hundred Spartans until the movie came out‚ it definitely opened their eyes after viewing the film. Some do not understand why this story is one of the most amazing ones in Greek history‚ mostly the people who do not know much about it. It is an inspirational story that tells us many
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besiege Potidaea‚ it threatened the position of Corinth. Sparta also feared that Athens was becoming too powerful but tried to prevent war.” (Peloponnesian War - Livius. (2018)) Sparta initial intentions were to avoid war with the possibility of peace‚ if Athens would have revoked the measures against Megara‚ one of Sparta’s allies‚ by solving this or any conflicts by arbitration which once had been the agreed upon process that Sparta and Athens had used to solve conflicts. The Athenian leader
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They were expected to fight for Sparta without any justification or mercy. IV. Allowed to marry at age 30 2 A.) Due to their commitment to the battlefield they would not be around much for the raising of their children or nourishment to the wives. 1.) Stealthy visits‚ meaning the soldiers would be extremely low key to even visit or be with their wives for one night. a.) Much dedication was based on fighting for their families and protecting mother Sparta. B.) They would be allowed to
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During the fifth century B.C.E.‚ Persia was a thriving empire that controlled a vast territory. In 499 B.C.E.‚ Greece helped Ionia‚ a province of Persia‚ rebel against the king of Persia‚ King Darius I. Darius vowed to crush Greece for it’s role in the rebellion. Throughout the fifth century‚ Persia repeatedly attacked Greece. After the third Persian invasion in 479‚ Greece decided to put an end to the attacks. In 478‚ the Delian League was created; it was an alliance of poleis‚ or Greek city-states
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