Why Is Athens More Important Than Sparta

Athens and Sparta were two of the most prominent city-states in Ancient Greece. Athens was distinguished as the center of wisdom and learning and Athenians were interested mostly in arts, music, and intellectual pursuits; however, Sparta was recognized for its military strength. The lives of the Spartans were dominated by the military, considered harsh, and focused on the physical development and assembling of adequate warriors who were capable of implementing the tactics needed to be used during their battles. Although Athens and Sparta were both the two most powerful and famous city-states in Ancient Greece, Athens is by far more impressive than Sparta. During the Golden age of Greece, which was also known as the “Age of Pericles”(480-408 BCE) Athens flourished as a center of not only education but also, art, culture and democracy. Throughout this time of prosperity, success, and profitability, the Athenians set the foundation for most of the ideologies today, such as democracy, Literature, medicine, and mathematics.
Hippocrates was an ancient Greek
He was considered one of the most superb figures in the history of medicine. “Hippocrates and his colleagues believed that illness was caused by an imbalance of bodily fluids or by external factors like sun, air, and climate” (Time Life Books, Neil Kagan, What Life Was Like at the Dawn of Democracy).
Herodotus invented the field of study that we know today as ‘history’. Roman writer Cicero called him ‘The Father of History’ because of his famous work The Histories while others sometimes called him the ‘Father of Lies’, also discrediting his works. Herodotus traveled to many places in Egypt, Africa, and Asia Minor. During these excavations he wrote down his observations, and experiences that helped to equip the following generations with thorough accounts of important historical events