Athens Essay

The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The man who came up with the idea was a French man named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who suggested the idea in 1894. His original idea was to unveil the modern Games in 1900 in his native Paris, but delegates from 34 countries were so enthralled with the concept that they convinced him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the first host. One main difference between the Ancient time games…

Athens women were responsible for taking care of the children, house, and making clothes. Spartan women were taught how to read and write as well as skills to help them in battle. They had much more freedom then women living in Athens. Slavery played a big role in ancient Greece. If you had reasonable wealth you would get slaves to carry out the house chores help…

Body Paragraph #2 (Author): • Xenophon was an Athenian citizen (Gish and Ambler 2009, 181). Given the tension between Sparta and Athens, and the Athenian preference for Democracy, one would expect the bias to tilt towards Xenophon’s native polis of Athens. On the contrary, Xenophon writes quite a favourable account of Spartan daily and political life. • Xenophon also wrote about Sparta in his accounts of the Peloponnesian Wars, through which…

The Parthenon is one of the greatest temples ever built in ancient times. It is a masterful piece on engineering done by the Athenians at the peak of their power. It took the Greeks almost 15 years from start to finish to build this temple. The temple outlasted the Greeks by nearly 2000 years and has filled the many roles required by the people who have occupied it. It’s architecture is unmatched by any other building in the world. The origin of the word Parthenon is from the Greek word παρθενών…

position forward turning in the statues to its original proper place in the Parthenon . British Ambassador to Constantinople, Lord Thomas Elgin taken the Parthenon Marbles from Athens under Turkish occupation. Meaning, the Greek government had no say in the decision of Laura Thomas Elgin of removing the Parthenon Marbles from Athens. The reason why the British should return the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece is because it is the Greeks the ones who made it. And the British have taking it…

Ancient Greece on a large hill overlooking the city of Athens, as seen in Figure 1, was a temple built in honor of the Goddess Athena in hopes that she would protect the city and its residents. In the years 280-279 B.C., the Acropolis is sacked and ruined by the Persians during the Persian Wars. When Pericles comes to power in 461 B.C., he rebuilds the Acropolis in order to commemorate Athens’ victory over Persia, as well as to send a message of Athens’ power and dominance to other Greek…

the Greek government loosened its budget once again as it entered the euro currency. The games were just one of several areas where public spending was unchecked and funded by unsustainable borrowing. Although the hosting of the 2004 Olympics in Athens represented a unique opportunity for the expansion and improvement of Greece’s tourism industry, the obvious lack of coordination between commercial providers and public governing bodies inhibited the development of a joint strategic approach to…

Sex and politics is the main topic in the anti-war comedy, The Lysistrata, written by “The father of comedy,” Aristophanes, which first staged in 411 BCE. One may argue that this play is based on feminism, and although it may seem that way, women are actually victims of prejudice who play under the role of using their sexuality to get what they want. Thus, this play accounts of one woman’s mission, Lysistrata, to end the Peloponnesian war by convincing all the women of Greece to stop engaging in…

The Apology, a trial is depicted to convict Socrates, a man who simply wanted to seek and define the truth, for corrupting the youth of Athens, and harming the relations among citizens by causing disrespect through his practice of philosophy. The trial seeks to uncover the truth of Socrates’ actions, or rather, if his actions were a harm to the society of Athens. In regards to the city, the prosecution had some strong arguments, and many weak ones that Socrates goes on to discredit time and time…

Classical Greek was an important period. There were many creative and architectural advances that happened in Athens. Greek sculptures and architectect had abstract characteristics and reflected ideas of humanism and rationalism. One of the most significant architectural piece of Greek culture is the Parthenon. The Parthenon was created by Iktinos and Kallikrates in 440 BCE. The building was created with columns and was symmetrical. The Parthenon was smaller than former civilizations…