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 grew around these defensible areas‚ and developed into the polis. The poleis were situated well inland to avoid raids by sea. With time‚ the agora‚ or marketplace‚ began to appear within the polis. The agora was not
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all if it weren’t for their ancestors‚ Athens would not be. He then goes into describing their democracy and why it is the best for all to follow. In their democracy‚ as in any democracy‚ the laws cover all not just certain groups of people. There is equality for all‚ even a person with a deformity or poor can serve in a public position. This normally does not happen in a non-democracy government. Pericles goes into depth regarding how the Athens culture has always been like an open door
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official from their voting district (the "deme") that they are NOT slaves and come from Athenian parents. Thus‚ they had to be native born citizens in order to enroll. Secondly‚ Demos means "People" because it directly symbolizes the people of Athens
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which Thucydides wrote his history such as; the war‚ politics and the plague. Thucydides (c.460-395BC) was born in Athens into what is believed to be a royal family. After proving to be a bad general he was exiled and spent twenty years in Thrace. During his time in exile Thucydides took advantage of his time and wrote ‘The Peloponnesian War’‚ which is an account of the war between Athens and Sparta 431 – 404BC. His history is divided into eight books; books 1-4 deal with the first ten years of the
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send him to his death just a few years before he would have died naturally? He was charged with not believing in the gods worshipped by the city‚ introducing new divinities and for corrupting the youth. Socrates was a freethinker who went around Athens probing his fellow Athenians with questions and dialectal interrogations about religion and politics. He held contemporary views‚ that when he expressed them‚ provoked his listeners to anger. In 423 B.C.‚ Socrates produced a play called Clouds‚
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Classical Music versus Pop Music Classical music and popular music are both genres of music that have been in existence for a long time and listened to by the entire populace. Classical music is more complex and appeals to the older population while pop music appeals to the younger population. There are benefits associated with classical music and it is of general opinion that it requires more attention to details than pop music because of its complexity. It is a known fact that music
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on conflicts. According to the historian Thucydides‚ the greatest conflict was the Peloponnesian war between the Athenians and Spartans‚ along with each of their allies. In the opinion of Thucydides‚ the Peloponnesian war was due to the growth of Athens and the fear‚ the growth caused in the Spartans and their allies (Thucydides‚ Book I‚ chapter I). Accounts of events by Thucydides‚ for Francis Cornford‚ are not merely historic‚ but rather works of art. The History of the Peloponnesian War according
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The Persians were a brutish people‚ who wanted nothing more than to conquer and ruin the Greek way of life. The Persians played the Greek city-states against one another in order to inhibit success against their attacks. The Ionian Greeks were conquered by these barbarians‚ and their way of life was threatened. The Greek’s freedom was perishing‚ while the power of the Persian’s continued to expand. The Persians were a tolerant empire with strong leaders and some autonomy though they restricted
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Introduction This study will compare and contrast the behavioral theory of classical conditioning and the cognitive theory of social cognitive. Both are theories that have been well investigated to produce an outcome of effective learning. This study will examine the conditions of learning from both theories and ague their differences as well as their similarities. Evidence will be present on both sides to support this thesis claims on conditions‚ similarities and differences. This study will focus
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and thinkers have graced Athens but none probably have described Athens as vividly as Pericles did with his funeral speech delivered in honor of the martyrs of the Peloponnesian War. This speech was given almost a year after the Peloponnesian War started and its purpose was to inspire both the citizens and the army of Athens. In his speech Pericles describes Athens as a flawless state when compared with its contemporaries. Pericles highlighted the achievements of Athens in almost every sphere ranging
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