After around 600 B.C., the Greeks started fabricating sanctuaries to respect their
After around 600 B.C., the Greeks started fabricating sanctuaries to respect their
The Roman Empire was a better empire than the Athenian Empire. Charistrics of a good government include; allowing many people be citizens, which is good because the government would have more people supporting and expanding the government; giving citizens many rights, which is also good because it gives citizens rights so they can make the government stronger, and by having a senate because it ensures the decisions and laws are correct. The first reason the Roman Empire had a better government than the Athenian government is because of the Roman Senate. The Roman Senate was made up of 300 men who inherited their spots.…
1. Does Pericles claim that Athens is a generous city? Pericles suggests that Athens is a generous city. In his speech he tells of how much grander Athens is because of its generosity.…
Pericles was an influential greek statesman, public speaker, and general of athens during the golden age. Pericles as a child was very quiet and introverted and devoted most of his time to his studies . He also received an exceptional education in music from Damon and math in under theoretical physicist Zeno of Elea. Pericle’s Legacy also included many achievements. Pericles was an introvert and took his studies very seriously.…
it was an offensive and defensive alliance against the Persians.13 The alliance had to pay a tribute every year to Athens.14 Athens received the funds and put them into a “treasury. ”15 Every nation paid into the treasury.16 The funding was supposed to go toward the Athenian fleet, built and manned by the people of Athens, but paid for by the allies.17 In 454 B.C. Pericles took the funds that had been stored up over a course of twenty years and put them into what he believed was the Athenian’s right to the enjoyment of the empire.18…
In the book Persepolis on page 102 there are two very detailed panels. Both pictures depict two similar yet very different scenarios. The first panel, shows a very moving and powerful image. You can see each child getting blown up, with the keys around their necks. The keys are supposed to be the key to paradise which makes the picture very dramatic because the children are being blown up.…
The Funeral Oration of Pericles is a document which contains a funeral speech made by Pericles, a prominent Athenian politician. This speech was dictated, edited and transcribed by Thucydides, an Athenian historian and soldier in his written work, History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was given at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) and Thucydides fought in the war and lived and therefore wrote his works during the time of Pericles. The speech was made to boost the morale of the Athenian people and its military who needed to continue to fight. It discusses the attributes of Athenian culture and society that are superior to their neighbor’s, including government, independence, and family, social and recreational…
Athenian Attitudes Toward the Authority of State Through the Eyes of Plato and Sophocles The first evidence of democracy, a government in which the citizens have say in the rulings, was discovered in Ancient Athens. However, when we study Athenian history, we focus on the democratic system of government and tend to overlook the Athenian citizen’s points of view. Through close examination of the writings of Sophocles and Plato, one can discover that the Athenian’s respect towards the governing power, changed during the Classical Athens period. Although the Ancient Athenian government seemed to have control over its people, Antigone of Sophocles and Crito of Plato reveal that from 441 BCE to 360 BCE, the citizens began to lose respect for the…
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi tells the story of Marjane’s life as she grows up in Iran during the Iranian revolution. In the beginning, Marjane is young and naive, not fully understanding the impact of the war. Throughout the graphic novel, she experiences a series of major life events, including moving to Austria and losing her beloved Uncle Anoosh. By the end of the graphic novel, however, these events have strengthened her, creating a strong, independent woman who knows the hardships of life and the cost of freedom but is still ready to take risks for her freedom. Satrapi shows Marjane’s coming-of-age and the development of her identity as someone who is willing to take risks and make sacrifices to find freedom through parallelism…
Sophocles was born 497/496 BC. He was a wealthy manufacture of amour. In 442 he served as a treasurer responsible for receiving and manage tribute money from Athens’ subject allies in the Delian League. Sophocles studied theatre arts in school. He gave up performing because of his relatively weak voice.…
Athens, Sparta, and Thebes all failed to create a lasting “Greek Empire.” While each polis had its own strengths and weaknesses, the poleis all failed for similar reasons. The poleis failed mainly due to almost constant power struggles, arrogance, and involvement in conflicts they should not have been involved in. Athens, Sparta, and Thebes all failed in spite of various strengths and due to various weaknesses. Athens’ strengths included its large size, large trireme navy, wealth, and democratic government.…
For our final presentation, Dan Dan and I picked love as the main topic. The main reason why we picked this love as our topic is because love is one of the main thing that we read in the books for this semester and also we find love in our life everyday, so we can also make connection with our life. With the main topic, love, we split it into 3 parts which is the 3 different types of love we found in the readings, which are family love, love between friends and also love between 2 people which is also call lover or couple. And in this presentation the main topic ‘m focusing on is the love between family and lover. With these two topic I made connections with the two readings I’ve like the most in this semester - Persepolis and Antigone.…
Be that as it may, it would only make sense that these actions done by Satrapi did show her individuality. “I put my 1983 Nikes on...and my denim jacket with the michael jackson button, and of course, my headscarf” (Satrapi 131) was the outfit of choice Marji left her house in. Knowing the strict committees were prowling the streets and the Islamic army was up and down the sidewalks, she was determined to go and buy cassette tapes of michael jackson and Kim Wilde, both very western as well as forbidden artists at this time. Satrapi chose to make herself a target by going out alone decked out in very “west” choices, she knew they were frowned upon by nearly every adult working for the government…
Sparta and Athens were both successful City States in Ancient Greece. Although they both were located in the same country, they both had conflicting views on several issues and they were different in the way they operated. The Athenians cared more about learning and the arts, while the Spartans were focused on military training and following orders. The two city states had different governments and social make-ups. Although the challenging city-states of Sparta and Athens were individually different as well as governmentally diverse, they both managed to become dominating powers in Ancient Greece.…
Agnodice of Athens as known as Agnodike, was born in the 4th century BCE Athens, Greece. The school she went to was Western philosophy which was founded by Plato in 387 BC. She had a very wealthy family born into an interest of a physician. Agnodice is known for becoming the first gynaecologists in Athens after being the first female physician in Athens. She has now become a symbolic figure for doctors in nowadays.…
Have you ever told a story about events that happened to you, but then someone else tells the same story with minor different details? This is because everyone has a perspective, and maybe one person saw someone throw spaghetti at a light while another person saw the same person throw an entire lunch at a light. However, both of these are still a valid perspective, even if one of the truths might have been stretched a little. In the book, Persepolis, Marjane lives in Iran during the 1970s, and she took part in the Iranian Revolution that was going on. The perspective of Marjane Satrapi as a child influences the historical accuracy of imperialism, nationalism, and gender roles of her autobiography, Persepolis.…