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Socrates' credo “An unexamined life is not worth living” sparks an intense and prolific discussion, just as Socrates intended. In the discussion of this credo, the thinker does just what the credo addresses: without studying, analyzing, or critically reflecting upon one's life, it is not worth living. Life is not about making all the right decisions in a progression to the idealized or perfect life. It is rather a procession to honor the experiences one is a part of or engages in, one's own…

rectangular shaped forum. “Its size was 250 by 170 meters (820 by 560 feet)” says just fun facts. It was common for all roman cities to have a Forum. Forum is a Latin word meaning open space or market place. The Roman Forum was very similar to the Greek Agora…

The archeology of different areas from the ancient Greek world informs us about different aspects of the ancient Greeks lives as well as ancient greek culture. The archeology of burials inform us about ancient greek culture, rituals, and ceremonies in relation to the death of warriors, leaders, the elite and so on. On the other hand, the archeology of the Greek house and city in contrast to burials informs us about identities in relation to society and culture, activities that took place in…

Today is the day! The group and I have at last touched base in an unknown ancient city located in Turkey to start inspecting the site I discovered a couple of weeks back. My objective of this trip is to figure out how this ancient civilization used to live. This city has numerous captivating locales that will lead me to my disclosures of this ancient human progress. A couple of essential locales in this city that I will be investigating are The Theater, the Bouleuterion, The Temple of Aphrodite,…

Historical Background Situated on the side of Mount Parnassus in central Greece, Delphi was a religious, panhellenic sanctuary known as the belly-button of the ancient world. This location was discovered, according to myth, when Zeus sent two eagles to fly from separate directions towards each other. They met at Delphi, then determined to be the navel of the earth. The site of Delphi was inhabited by Iron Age cults, and material evidence of 9th century bronze figurines has been recovered.…

Urban refers to the built up space of a central city and its suburbs. It has a lack of agricultural area and is distinctly non-rural. Urban geography has four subfields that will be discussed in this summary. The first is the history of urbanization. Next, is intraurban geography, followed by interurban geography. The final subfield is urban planning and policy. Why do people live in cities and when did they start? Before urbanization, people where clustered in agricultural villages and were…

Palmyra is a city located in the ancient Aramic city and it is the central of Syria. It is located in an oasis 245km east of the Mediterranean Sea and 210 km west of the Euphrates River, it is located in the center of Syrian Steppe (cited). Palmyra is at the northeastern slope of Jebel at-Muntar of the Palmyrene mountain chain at an altitude of 600m (cited). Dasmascus its 235km from Palmyra and Homs its 210lm from it, and 210km from Deiz. This mean that Palmyra is very close to the other cities…

idol to his peers during his time, people look back on his contribution to Athens and find it quite legendary. Throughout his philosopher days socrates was not liked too well because he would cause ruckus at the agora. Socrates would always plant new thoughts into the people at the agora minds, making them rethink some things they thought were once simple. Socrates mind puzzling thoughts were constantly frowned upon by the adults of Athens because they were…

Athens is not democratic. Athens is thought to be the first government to use democracy. We are going to examine what doesn't make Athens a democracy, and examine all of the facts that support this opinion. We will discuss the population, the Athenian constitution, and the opinions of experts. The opinions of experts are some of the most trustworthy sources available. One source is from Professor Hansen, a professor of philology and classics at the University of Copenhagen, and is considered a…