The Greek World 500-440 BC Account for the democratic reforms of Athens during this period. Athens was greatly affected by the Persian Wars and the aftermath of those wars. Significant changes were made to the internal government of Athens. The changes that took place between 500 and 440 BC were part of the democratisation process‚ but they must also be seen as responses to the Persian Wars and as consequences of the growing imperialism of Athens. It is also important to understand the interrelationship
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Aulularia is a comedic play written by Titus Maccius Plautus during a time when Athens was one of‚ if not the most powerful city-states in all of Europe. For this great society‚ historians use literary works to research and understand what the period was like. Aulularia is great play that can help historians investigate how slaves were‚ through Plautus’ humor you can catch how marriage and pro-creation is done and viewed in Ancient Athens. Titus Maccius Plautus‚ born sometime around 254 B.C.E.
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How Great Were Their Differences? The Ancient Athenian and China dynasties were vastly different because of their population and form of government. The government of Athens was democracy with a diminutive population that could be ran by some people in the population‚ whereas in Han China was a bureaucracy with a greater population that was ran by non-elective government officials‚ citizens had no say in government. (Document 2) The Ancient Athenian population was made up of fifty hundred free male
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Victor Salvado English R1A: Performing Revenge The Justice of Athena In the Greek trilogy of revenge The Oresteia‚ Aeschylus actively utilizes literary symbols to suggest significant parallels between the representative system of justice reflected in the play and the prevalent democratic attitudes of 5th century Greek society. The goddess Athena is instrumental in drawing these parallels‚ as it is she who establishes the unbiased court system in which Orestes is tried. However‚ Aeschylus
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presents the life of Alcibiades as a contrast between inspired military excellence and disappointing moral failure. Although he was a brilliant and accomplished military strategist‚ Alcibiades’ lack of moral fortitude‚ and his provocation of the Athenians into reckless action led to his downfall‚ and that of Athens. Although Alcibiades was a man of prodigious gifts who could have led Athens to military dominance‚ he gave in to base self-interest and lack of self-control that caused him to alienate
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Πόλις The Polis "The polis was a complex hierarchical society built around the notion of citizenship. It was made up of hundreds or even thousands of independent peasant households All citizens had a share in the polis..." (Morris) Originally‚ the polis referred to a defensible area to which farmers of a particular area could retreat in the event of an attack. This defensible hill became known as an acropolis. The Acropolis in Athens is one example. Over time‚ towns
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Classical Age of Greece 479-336 B.C.E. Athens was and still is known as the original culture to create the ideal of democracy and was the first democracy in the ancient world. (Pomeroy‚ 2012)(Levack‚ Muir‚ & Veldman‚ 2011). However; Ancient Athenians were not an equal society‚ they reserved citizenship for only a select group within the population. Male citizens once reaching the age of 18 and who were “free born” were the only citizens of Athens allowed to participant in the cities political
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or were forced out of office. Greece was ruled by archons‚ who were elected annually. Athenian democracy was made up of three important institutions. The first was the ekklesia‚ the boule‚ and the dikasteria. The ekklesia made decisions about war and foreign policy‚ wrote and revised laws and approved or condemned the conduct of public officials. The boule was a group of 500 men‚ 50 from each of ten Athenian tribes‚ who served on the Council for one year. The boule met every day and basically dictated
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education‚ having a job‚ voting‚ holding elective office and a lot more. With the women’s rights movement and the 19th amendment‚ women have gone far to earn their rights. Another reason how the role of women improved is because back then in an Athenian marriage‚ the husband was always the more dominant one and the wife just agreed to everything to what her husband said or at least pretended to agree. Even before the marriage‚ the women did not have any say in anything. Her father and groom arranged
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would often conflate monarchy with tyranny. The Athenians were subjected to the invasions of Darius and Xerxes of Persia‚ so it would make sense that they would hold animosity against these tyrants and their type of rule. Athens did have a monarchy at one point in history‚ however‚ before the democracy that they were so famous for. This monarchy was short lived‚ however‚ and soon after Athens was developed it evolved into an oligarchy. (Athenian
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