village. A polis sometimes controlled very small territories. However‚ among all of the “Polies” in Greece‚ there were two poweful city states named Athens and Sparta. These two city states were powerful and influential among other Greek city states or poleis1. This written assignment will address these questions about Athens and Sparta: How did people in Athens and Sparta obtain the right to participate in public life and make decisions affecting the community? Who held public office? What rules governed
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Pericles uses the speech of the Funeral Oration to promote Athens. He believed in his people and through this speech he was able to get the people to be proud to be Athenians. Athenians were very proud of their city and its customs. They had a great deal of respect for the warrior class and believed they were top members of their society. Warriors were classified as heroes. The funeral oration was to respect the ones who had died in battle or after battle to build this city into what it had become
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The population of Athens was made up of four distinct groups: Male citizens‚ foreigners‚ slaves and women. For the purpose of this paper my intent is to show the different roles of men‚ women and slaves and what their significance was in the life of Athens during the 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).
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Athens and Sparta were two of the most powerful and well known cities among all the Greek nations. Both Athens and Sparta had many similarities and differences whether it is culturally or politically. For instance the way that these cities were governed and their political procedures and functions are similar yet much different from each other. There were many differences and similarities between Athens and Sparta both culturally politically. One major difference between the two major cities was
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science? Unfortunately‚ the extant data‚ which showed dates and place of Plato’s definitely were sweep away by wind of history‚ but majority of historians and sources indicate what it was in period between 429 to 423 BC in Athens. As well as we know‚ Athens was city-state in Ancient Greece‚ also many historians calling it “Heart of Greece” or “Cradle of knowledge”. We can conclude that place of born play an important role at formation of Plato’s personality‚ along with his family was rich
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Classical Nashville: Athens of the South provides readers who are classically defunct in the areas of classical architecture‚ and also those knowledgeable on the subject of classical architecture‚ a vigorous and enlightening journey into the origins of classical architecture in Nashville. Classical Nashville does not merely offer an insight into the architectural makeup of the city. Far from it‚ Classical Nashville stems back to the earliest beginnings of Nashville‚ before it was a wild frontier
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Athenians on the Parthenon Frieze? Thucydides describes the Athens as being superior to the other states while the Parthenon Frieze describes them as a whole and united and the figures they respected. Thucydides mainly talks about the warriors and the men of Athens while the Parthenon Frieze depicts people of all status. Thucydides makes the Athens seem arrogant and has the Athens believe that they are above all the other states. When the Athens go to all the states and provide their justification of
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Applications Spartans v. Athens The Spartans and Athens had a really different life than each other. The Spartans treated their women equally to men. The Spartan women had almost the same right that Spartan men had. “Spartan women had the right to vote just like man had the right also.”(CITATION) Women were allowed to vote the same as the man were allowed to vote. They had more freedom then the Athen women. The Athens would treat their women unequally compare to man. “Athen women didn’t had the right
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We have a winter and summer Olympics. The original Olympics were banned in 396 A.D by BC Roman emperor Theodosius. It was brought back to the world in 1896 by Pierre De Coubertin‚ the first modern Olympics would take place in Athens. They are many differences and similarities between the modern Olympics and the ancient Olympics. Some differences are the ancient Olympics had only 10 sporting events and today there is around 300. The ancient Olympics only lasted around 5 days and
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Was Sparta a better place than Athens? Spartans is known for its military training while Athens lives in world of luxury. Each state has its own good or bad and you can’t say something is better at everything than another one. First of all‚ children are mistreated in Sparta like going to military training at the age of seven and killing “weak” babies. Who said they didn’t have the potential to become the next Plato. In order to have a pure race Spartans started to kill the babies who look “weak”
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