Athens

the courts of ancient Athens and ancient Rome to make a litigant seem immoral or moral for the jury to side in a particular direction, and how it was very…

Athens had about 6,500 people at all times making rules and judging. Athens was a different type of city-states because, it was a democracy, you could get a good education, Athens wan’t always to themself, and family tyes were stronger in Athens. First of all, in Athens it’s freer than other city-states because it was a democracy. The article Athens and Sparta by Mr. Duckworth states, “ Athens is a democracy which means ruled by the people.” if people can choose their rules it is pretty free.…

Ancient Athens Argumentative Essay Democracy is the government that everyone gets a say in everything. Ancient Athens was supposedly one of the few truly democratic societies. The question is, were they truly democratic. There are people on both sides of the issue. We can't go and ask them so we depend on historians to tell us more about them. The historians are the ones who can make a difference. Historians need to realize that ancient Athens was not truly democratic because of the percent of…

Midterm: The Sparta and Athens The ancient Greek city, first thought should be Spartan and Athens. The two city-states have always been very contrary to the impression that Sparta is the authoritarian oligarchy, known for land military forces, and Athens is open-minded democracy, Athens is not the kind of brave feeling, but Is good at philosophy, literature, art, mathematics, cultural capital, but also the sea Pa people. More importantly, after the second Greco-Persian Wars (480 to 479 BC), the…

votes were worth more. Themistocles was the executive charge until he is banished in 472 B.C. The line of succession moves on and Cimon is now elected and very popular for years but is then ousted in 461 B.C. and that is where the friendship between Athens and Sparta comes to an end. Power is now moved…

Athens and Sparta are the two most well known poleis of ancient Greece and each was known for the structure of its society. In this essay I will discuss how people in those societies obtained the right to participate in public life and make community decisions, identify who held public office, and how public office holders were elected. How those two societies were similar and how they differed will also be discussed throughout this essay. Both Athens and Sparta had a societal structure based…

Ancient Athens: the beginning of democracy, even the kind we have today. People, only Greek citizens, (men who have completed military training and were landowners,) could vote in this government. They had control of the government. Athens was the “trial” or “beta” state of democracy. It was even a “fragile experiment.” The government was just starting out! Athenians fought for their precious democracy in the Greco-Persian War. Some citizens chose to fight against the Persians in this war; if…

the government of Ancient Athens. This comparison is not one-hundred percent because Athens was a true Democracy and America is a Constitutional Republic. We will look at these two governments and how they are alike and different. Ancient Greece at one time was ruled by a select few. So new leaders decided the government would by one-hundred percent run by the citizens. First were archons. These citizens where elected officials who served as the Chief Magistrates of Athens. Then the Council of…

Although Athens had a geographical advantage with mountains acting as a natural barrier and easy access to the sea, they were battle tested by the Persians. The Persian Wars tested Greek poleis’ on their ability to preserve their independence over other city-states. After the battle of Platea, Athens decided to form the Delian League of cities to continue to resist the Persians, ultimately liberating Ionia and its Greek settlements from Persian control. Athens was in desperate need of leader who…

The people of Athens and Sparta participated in public life in very different ways due to the differences in their social structures. Each had very different histories and events that led to two distinct versions of democracy within Greece in which different classes of people were able to participate at certain levels. “Sparta was a warrior society…and only warriors participated in political life” (Brand, 1). Their was certainly a strict social order with the Helots, or slaves and serfs,…