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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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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Comparing Pericles’ Funeral Oration to Sogoyewapha ’s Appeal to the Preservation Culture After the Peloponnesian War‚ Pericles delivered an oration to celebrate the soldiers who had died in battle. Similarly‚ Sogoyewapha’s oration delivered at the council of chiefs of the Six Nations to celebrate their religion. Both orations give an understanding of the inner workings of government in ancient Athens and in the aboriginal nation. The approach that will be applied to analyze the orations will be
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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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