Athens Essay

The way to eliminate some of the corruptness between the IOC and the countries is to have the Olympic Games held at the same location every time. An ideal location would be Athens, Greece. Argument 1 (finances) All the way back in 1896, the Olympic Games began its first competition between athletes in Athens, Greece. Athens is the best location for the Olympic Games to be held continuously due to several factors including the historical background, renovated facilities, and cost budgets.…

superior to the Greek army. Our men are well-trained and prepared to fight. I strongly believe we should fight Athens as not only are they weaker (especially on land), but their thirst for power would destroy Greece. If they controlled Greece they would have to much military and economic power. If we allow them to win Athens will bankrupt Greece and squander of Greece’s resources! Athens will destroy Greece and our great city if we do not stop them! The Peloponnesian League is better prepared…

the Persian wars Athens cultivated a sense of pride, euphoria, and chauvinism among the community. In fact, the largest polis was Athens. The well-known pride of the Greek citizens flourished into achievements such as drama, democracy, art, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, poetry, sports, and sciences. For example, the Olympic…

Set atop the city of Athens sits an enigmatic piece of Athenian history. The Parthenon has long held one of the most historically perplexing friezes in ancient Greece. Temples were a common form of worship in ancient Greek society and often held many art pieces in honor of the god or goddess that the temple was dedicated to. These artifacts left behind from ancient societies hold key insight into what society was like and what was culturally important in ancient Greece. Joan B. Connelly may hold…

Artwork from Greece, especially Athens was depicted as the significance and achievements of humans. Furthermore, much of the Greek art was to honor the gods, in which the gods were created in the persona of humans. In similar contrast, the artwork from the period of the Panathenaic games, illustrated Athena and some sort of athletic event. Between the beginning of the sixth and by the end of the fourth centuries B.C., new techniques were starting to be used to decorate the fine pottery.…

Erechtheion, on the Acropolis, Athens, 421-05 BC I have chosen to do my essay on the Erechtheion, on the Acropolis. The reason I had chosen the Acropolis temple is because of the beautiful statues represented on the south side of the temple. I also enjoyed reading the history and what the temple represents to the Greeks. Doing some research throughout the module 4 pages 14 and 15 there is a lot of information located on the web. I found that the temple was built in honor of Athena and also…

Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remebered particulary for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in arachaic Athens. Cleisthenes was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting in on a deocratic footing. For these accomplisments, historians refer to him as "the father of Athenian democracy." Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He…

the Parthenon. This was a problem because Athens was democratic, meaning that if the majority of people didn’t want the Parthenon to be built, it wouldn’t be able to be built. The cost alone was not the only main factor in not everyone liking the Parthenon, it was the fact that the some of the funds were coming from the Delian League, a group of Greek city states under the rule of Athens, set on destroying Persia, their enemy. The city states under Athens rule paid tribute to them for…

In this present democratic society, political debates over policy are at the forefront of the collective conscious of the American people, particularly at this stage in the election cycle. Those of us living in the postmodern age, however, tend to fall into the highly fallacious mindset wherein democracy is thought of as being an invention of the recent age, and an idea about which we can learn very little by appealing to the ancient world which is so rife with stories of empires and conquests.…

"central place to practiced political, social and religious activates" (Spielvogel 59). The city-states of Sparta and Athens were considered rivals in Ancient Greece. They are physically close in proximity to one another. However, there are many unique differences between these two cities. Sparta is a region that is located in an area known as Laconia. Both Sparta and Athens are two of the main city-states found in Greece. They both spoke diverse dialects and had a different political…