Freedom in Greece: The rise and Fall of Delphi Delphi was one of the few institutions of the Greek world considered an authority throughout the Greek polis. A temple dedicated to Apollo‚ a god of light‚ truth‚ and divination. Its location was near a Mt. Parnassus and had a female priestess who answered the questions of the petitioner. The Oracle of Delphi being in a unique position was regarded as an arbiter for the Greeks it assisted in decisions such as war‚ colonization‚ and advice. How Delphi
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Strategy involves a collection of decisions. The most obvious decision occurs when the proper authority chooses a course of action. A host of other decisions however surround that choice: how to interpret and predict the decisions of others‚ how to disseminate and implement the plan‚ how to evaluate its progress and adapt to emerging contexts‚ and so on. The strategists who address these subsidiary decisions may lack final approval authority but their influence is still significant. Their deepest
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Comparing Sparta and Athens Make a copy of this document and complete the information requested below. Sparta: Sparta was a polis that valued physical courage‚ strength and bravery in war. The Spartans gave their complete loyalty to the polis. Seven year old Spartan boys left their homes to train as soldiers in military camps. Spartan men lived and trained together. When a man married‚ he would continue to live with his fellow soldiers until he was about 30 years old. Both men and women
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democracy in ancient history. He was wrongfully convicted‚ yet unwilling to avoid his unjust execution. He is at once the most Athenian‚ citizenly‚ patriotic‚ and other-regarding of philosophers—and yet the most critical and self-regarding of Athenians. In exploring that contradiction‚ between “Socrates the loyal Athenian citizen” and “Socrates the philosophical critic of Athenian society‚” Aristotle’s Politics comes to mind: “the good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good
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Throughout Greek history‚ there have been many interesting city-states. Two very important poleis are Athens and Sparta. After studying these poleis it is clear that Athens is the better polis because of its government‚ education‚ and society. The government in Athens was better then Sparta’s government. After laws were written down and enforced‚ power was divided equally in Athens government. In Sparta "the ephors had unlimited power to act as guardians of the state‚ and they used that power freely
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and Socrates had his own opinions which he was just educating other pupils on. That is also a huge difference in our time periods‚ in our years someone would never be put to death for speaking about his or her religion or way of thinking. In the Athenian court system they let the citizens’ vote. Which shows some similarities with our modern court system because we do have a jury but we mainly just let the jury and the judge decide. They may be put in prison for harassing others but never condemned
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and descended”. Aphrodite’s divine station albeit places her above the mortal speaker. Still‚ there is the implication here is that the rules of love and war are not too different that a cursory glance shows. Philia is the love that permeates the Athenian democracy’s ideology as
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first few steps of Greece‚ as time passed greeks started to colonized to become an empire. Polis/city-states were
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include the satirical female representation‚ Lysistrata’s masculine embodiment of peace‚ the neglect of the polis‚ the anti-patriarchal and anti-war stratagems as well as the desired and final result of the strike. Whilst often seen through modern interpretations as a feminist drama‚ such a notion of feminism emerged in the mid-twentieth century and therefore does not aptly appropriate Athenian culture. The twentieth century notion of feminism encompasses the central belief that the sexes should have
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------------------------------------------------- NAME: KEY HIS101 Section: _________ ------------------------------------------------- Chapters 1 and 2 Study Guide DUE DATE: 1. Punishments for crimes under the Code of Hammurabi were more severe for the lower classes. P10 2. The Hebrew Bible focuses on the basic theme of the necessity of the Hebrews to obey their God P37 3. The greatest international sea traders of the ancient Near
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