Aristocracy

As artists were frequently trying to attempt to impress the elite in hopes of finding or impressing a patron, the lower and middle classes were typically unaffected by the Renaissance culture. The invention of the printing press, by Johann Gutenberg, allowed for the possibility of educating the impoverished and illiterate, as it was much easier to mass produce books, rather than having to handwrite each copy. Before its invention, only the extremely wealthy could afford to have large libraries,…

was certainly a strict social order with the Helots, or slaves and serfs, serving as the lowest rung and largest demographic, the spartan soldiers, the aristocracy, the Ephors, and finally the kings being the most powerful. Spartan soldiers were trained from the age of seven to the age of 20, when they entered active military service. The aristocracy was born out of the end of the Messenian wars, when veterans were given parcels of land with Helots that farmed it (Brand, 4). The Ephors were…

the Victorian era. The double entendre included in title, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, accents Oscar Wilde's witticism and word-play, as he mocks Victorian values by trivialising the aspects of marriage, aristocracy, and society. Throughout this play, Wilde employs many puns and includes verbal irony as he teases and mocks Victorian assumptions on the nature and purpose…

In book eight of Plato’s Republic, he describes the five different types of constitutions: the first and best being the aristocracy, also known as the kallipolis, followed by the timocracy, third is the oligarchy, fourth is the democracy and finally the last and worst of the cities is the tyranny. The cities, and therefore the corresponding types of the soul degenerate because of the character of the ruler as Plato tells us at the beginning of book eight: “And do you realize that of necessity…

have arrived in the the tale end of Athens golden age in the 5th century BCE. There is so much culcher from it philosophers to its citizen army. After talking to the locals I can narrow down Athens government into three stages. First there was Aristocracy, this government was arranged that only a few wealthy family had all the power and the rest had no political say in how the city state was rain. This carried on for a few centuries however the poorer class revolted kicking out he the wealthy…

be a part of. Amateur musicians who engage in music as a pastime rather than as a profession. As more people made more money, the middle class started to seek the same luxuries as the aristocracy. Composers started to take the middle class tastes into consideration and wrote many pieces that made fun of the aristocracy. Although this time was a cultural revelation it also was a period of violent political and social turmoil. The changes in society affected a countless number of people including…

background of aristocracy and strong…

On June 11, 1776 Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin sat in a drafty room signing one of the most important documents in American history. The Declaration of Independence is a formal statement that expressed the desire for the thirteen colonies to be free of the king of Great Britain, stating the reasons and the desire for self-autonomy. In it they appealed to the Supreme Judge of the World, and stated that the United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent…

Thrasymachus’ fondness for tyranny is expanded upon further by Rachel Barney, who goes on to explain that Thrasymachus’ society is tyrannical as a result of him equating justice with the advantage of the rulers. The rulers in Thrasymachus’ society are motivated by the accumulation of the “good,” which serves an economic function in the form of both money and power. The “good” is described as having a zero-sum nature, as the procurement of more “goods,” comes at the expense of the amount of…

The ideal of Athens centers on its community, one of the most important is Liberty, Democracy, Education and Law. This society had several values based on believes that the aristocracy that is different and superior from the rest of the habitants was the aristocracy with more privileges and could have more power of decision among the others. Citizens could gather and form an assembly to participate in decisions for the whole community. Athens is a city encountered in Greece, and one of their…