Athens, Ohio

After heroic roles in the defeat of the Persians (480-479 B.C.), for the next half-century, Athens and Sparta assumed preeminence among the city-states, and their rivalry slowly led to the long-expected showdown. Thucydides, a contemporary historian, believed that the war broke out because of Spartan fear of the rising power of Athens, whose empire and capital increasingly isolated less imaginative and less adventurous rivals. Both were unusually powerful, atypical–and antithetical–Greek states…

I live in Astoria, Queens. It is a middle-class culturally diverse neighborhood. Astoria is considered to be a Greek neighborhood, but nowadays you can see people from around the world. Astoria has a fast commute to Manhattan and prices are much cheaper. So more and more young people are moving there every year. Nevertheless, the neighborhood is safe and family oriented. It has public and some private schools, and kindergartens. There is a ton of great places to go for dining, shopping, or…

polis ? -Jentina Gregory Athens the “city hall of wisdom” is the place where the first seed of democracy was sown . The democratisation of Athens coincides with the flourishing of “Tragedy” as a major genre in Athens In this paper my point of focus is the relation between the “Greek Tragedy and Athenian Democracy” and to note how far these two are interdependent on each other . Greek Tragedies took its subject matter from real socio political events of Athens along with the…

Athena Lemnia, a modern copy of Athena Lemnia’s reconstruction, currently resides in a niche in Carpenter Library of Bryn Mawr College. It used to exhibit in Thomas Great Hall and it was moved to carpenter Library in 1997. and before The statue is made of plaster and slightly over life-size. Its dimension is 228.6 cm x 106.68 cm x 68.58 cm (Height x Width x Depth). The statue was made by August Gerber and was painted black to resemble bronze texture of the original. The original sculpture it…

When Alexander the great ruled Greece, he developed a culture that was called Hellenism. Alexander the great spread the culture throughout the surrounding area’s by expanding his empire. At the young age of just twenty years old, Alexander became the leader of the great kingdom called Macedonia. Alexander’s empire was huge but very fragile. Every place alexander invaded and took over was named after him, simply being called “Alexandria.” (History.com) (Hand book to life in ancient Greece)…

multiplicity of city-states, we see distinct variations across societies. The place this distinction is most easily seen is when comparing Athens and Sparta. Despite being sister cities, and working together to twice fend off Persian invaders in the Greco-Persian wars, Athens and Sparta always seemed to be rivals. Despite sharing new ways of governance, Athens and Sparta differed in how they went about it. Greece is the first place where citizens were allowed to rule themselves, although it…

Hellenic Era the Athens rose as one of the greatest mainland powers in Greece. As they rose they decided to change their government from monarchy to aristocracy. Little did the Athenian society know that one change would be a turning point for the west’s view on government from then on. The creation of the Council of Areopaugus was the starting point for this change the council was for elders of noble families exclusively to rule the Athens. As trade began to increase in Athens a change to…

political structures enabled the possibility to create and establish rulers who led their nations with different political systems. In Athens Greece, a popular form of political system emerged. This system is commonly referred to as democracy. This began with a man named Pericles. He was a well known Athenian leader who is commonly referred to as the “first citizen” of Athens. Pericles believed that he was the man of the people. He initiated the construction of building projects and also led…

more politically-centered as well as praises for Athens. While he had decent military tactics, he was opinionated, which shows through in his famous speech. Based on Pericles’s opinions about use of wealth, class equality, and gender distinction in Athenian history, it can be proven that he was bending the truth in his famous funeral oration speech. Following the Peloponnesian war, in Pericles’s funeral oration he was obviously lying about Athens’ use of wealth. “Wealth we employ more for use…

During Greece’s Golden Age, Athens became a powerful center for new ideas. They developed democracy, a new form of government, which gave power to the people. Each Athenian had a different perspective on democracy, ranging from highly supporting and recommending it to preferring other types of government. Plato, Aristotle, and Megabyzos were early Athenian philosophers. They had easy ways to spread their ideas. Each had a strong viewpoint on democracy. After seeing and experiencing the…