Acropolis

Archaic Greece was a period in time which innovation, development, and revolution changed the course of physical, geographical cities and political ideology. The “polis” or city state was a vital part to the development and change of politics and fundamental ideology . Each polis had different laws from Athens to Sparta and each Polis had different aspects that made them unique and distinguished them from each other. Sparta was a very exclusive and rigid polis with an emphasis on battle, blood,…

Through the texts Antigone and Lysistrata the reader sees women making waves in their government and turning social standards upside down. The male reaction to woman shows the connection between gender roles and sexuality with the time period. The protagonists Antigone and Lysistrata in their respective texts show the reaction of a society seeing a woman thinking for herself for the first time. In Antigone and Lysistrata women are oppressed, due to men fearing their own roles in the government,…

Plato is obviously mythical, this might be Plato trying to make the original story more interesting. According to Plato, there was a temple of Poseidon in Atlantis. This can be true considering there is the Temple of Athena Nike, a temple on the Acropolis of Athens, built around 420BC,where the citizens worshiped the goddess in hope of a prosperous outcome in war. Since there can be temple for Athena, why can’t there be a temple for Poisedon? It can be built for the…

Greek traditions and beliefs still have a huge impact on our civilization in many ways, whether it be from architecture or from the stories written about their gods in that time period, it is obvious that they still impact us. Many of the gods and goddesses in that time period helped structure some beliefs that we still hold dear to us to this very day. One very important goddess from their beliefs is Athena. She is known as for representing many different qualities that the people in her cult…

The ancient Greek polis of Athens was a economic, military, and cultural superpower during the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. With a domain that controlled the cities of Naxos, Carystus in Euboea, and Miletus in Ionia at it’s peak. Their rival, Sparta, a military juggernaut supposedly built on strict military conduct and no comforts. The aim of this essay is to determine just how different and how similar these two poleis are, and to establish how atypical Athens is when compared…

In Ancient Mesopotamia, the concept of law was governed by what is known as the Law Code of Hammurabi. This code was established by Hammurabi of Babylon, after taking control of most of Mesopotamia circa 1792-1750 BCE. This law can best be described by its main principle of “Lex Talionis”, a legal principle of having the punishment fit the crime. It was believed that prior to its introduction, Babylon suffered from disorder and chaos. Its people were governed by little more than their rulers…

The contemporary perspective of democracy is that all citizens should have the right to participate in elections and control the structure of the government and who holds office. For example, numerous people consider America undemocratic because Trump won the presidential election losing by two million votes, and that the voice of the people was not accurately represented because the final decision was put into the hands of the electoral voters. One of the earliest forms of democracy evolved in…

Classical and Greek Mythology Allusions Pandora’s Box Who? Zeus, Pandora, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Hephaistos What? Zeus was mad at Prometheus and because people tricked him. Zeus eventually got back at the people by telling Hephaistos to make a beautiful woman whom he names Pandora. Zeus sent Pandora to earth. Zeus thought Epimetheus should marry Pandora. Zeus sent Pandora with a small box with a lock on it. She couldn’t open the box because Epimetheus had the key. Pandora really wanted to…

Based on the conflict between Artemis and Aphrodite in Hippolytus, the conclusion which can be drawn is that the Greeks perceived their gods to be selfish, amoral, vengeful and petty, pursuing their own goals in disregard of the moral and responsible path and killing humans to attack the deities which favored said humans; the conflict between Demeter and the rest of the Olympian gods in Hymn to Demeter reinforces the notion that the gods did not care for mortals when solving conflicts between…

1. The Ekklesia makes reference to the Athenian assembly, with Ekklesia literally meaning ‘assembly’. The assembly consisted of all the adult male citizens in Athens. It was these men that governed by making the laws of the time. Unlike Spartan democracy, any citizen was allowed the opportunity to propose a new laws or wanted debates, however they were not allowed to vote. The quorum, which refers to the minimum number of members of a specific deliberate assembly, consisted of 6000 men, whom…