Classical Athens

themselves and had different ideas as how they treated the people within their own city. For example, the Sparta was ruled by two hereditary kings in conjunction with elected board of advisors. Corinth was governed by a mercantile oligarchy, and Athens by constitutional democracy. Whereas the Persian encompassed disparate cultures and people. The Persians allowed defeated kings to continue to ruling their kingdom under the condition that they swear allegiance to the Persian Empire and pay…

after a tyranny, a form of government where one person held all of the power. After experiencing a system where the power was held by one person, the Athenian people wanted a government based on equality and shared responsibility. Democracy in ancient Athens was fair because poor and wealthy citizens were treated as equals. Athenian democracy was fair because everyone was treated equally before the law. Thucydides, who wrote about Athenian…

In Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta were bitter rivals. Athens’ power relied mainly on its navy while Sparta relied mainly on land power. The warriors of Sparta were the most powerful land army of the time. This rivalry both on land and at sea led to the Peloponnesian Wars in 431 BC. Brutal warfare ensued for twenty-seven years, eventually leading to the downfall of Athens. There are many theories as to the reason for Athens demise. One such theory would be the mysterious plague that ravaged…

Sparta or Athens? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beginning a life in either Athens or Sparta have pros and cons. Athenians enjoyed luxuries and foods from all over their empire, but did not have equal freedom. In Sparta there was freedom for both genders, but there was bad food and children were abused. There are many reasons why one could be better than the other. If you choose to live in Sparta, you…

two cities that causes the later unravel of Greece. Athens and Sparta were both known for their culture and military achievements. Both cities had involvement with other Hellenic states, rose to power through alliances, reforms, and victorious wars against the Persian armies. With both states at their highest peak had their own way of governing and laws it was impossible to unite them under one law. Sparta was more of a closed government and Athens was more of an open society. Trying to combine…

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata satirizes the fruitlessness of the Peloponnesian war and the roles of women which is conveyed by the premise that something as simple as abstinence by women can bring an end to a dragged-out war. It can be inferred that this is an anti-war satire from the conversations between the women after Lysistrata asks “don’t you miss the men, the fathers of your children all the time?” where the women talk about not being able to see the fathers of their children for months at a…

Greek democracy was able to coexist with military needs and divisions in social classes by providing people with jobs and allowing people to have a say in things. First, due to the democracy, the lower society classed people were able to get a job in the military. It used to be that only the rich people who could maintain a horse would be able to join, but with the new democracy, the less richer people would be able to buy the sword, the armour, and the sheild. Now, if you were poorer than those…

STRUCTURES OF ATHENS AND SPARTA 1 Comparing The Governmental Structures of Athens And Sparta During The Archaic And Classical Periods (ca 800-323BCE) Kwasi O. Angus University of The People GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURES OF ATHENS AND SPARTA…

Technological and Cultural Advancement in Athens and Sparta Culture, defined as collective manifestations of human intellectual achievement and arts (dictionary), is fundamental to technological growth. The interests of a civilizations society will determine which direction they will progress as a whole. Likewise, civilizations with dissimilar interests that exist in the same time period can progress at different rates despite living in similar conditions. Athens and Sparta, both city-states in…

society, we are affected by history from the past, which could be anything from World War II to the times of ancient Israel and the Savior’s ministry. The Parthenon is the former temple to the Goddess Athena and an ancient architectural structure from classical Greece. This relic has had that unseen impact on our society. Willey Reveley, an 18th century English architect, said that the Parthenon exhibited a “masculine boldness and dignity… the grandeur of whose effect… can scarcely be understood…