Corinth

This expedition seemed doomed because they started with three different strategies, and three different generals. The Athenians named three generals to lead the expedition. They named Alcibiades, Nicias and Lamchus as their leaders. Nicias, who had tried to convince the people of Attica not to go to Sicily, suggested that they sail towards Sicily and force a settlement between Segesta and Selinus; then after that return home. Lamachus, suggested that they could attack their real enemy,…

During the Peloponnesian war, Athens and their rival, Sparta, competed against one another in an effort to establish their dominance of Greece, forming alliances and colonies with imperialistic motives. Large alliances that were formed before the Peloponnesian war were an important factor in what escalated it. Sparta formed the Peloponnesian League while Athens created what is now referred to as the Athenian Empire. The Spartans won the long Peloponnesian war against Athens in 405, after the…

In Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta were 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. This war lasted 27 years and was the cause of the fall of Athens. The two main factors that caused Athens to lose the war were the failure to capture Sicily in 415 BC and the mysterious plague that ravaged Athens in 430…

The Athenians and the Spartans were two very different city states of Greece in which they had many different attributes that make their city state unique. For example, the Spartans which were located on the Peloponnesus in the southern part of Greece began in 600 B.C. and lasted till 371 B.C. Sparta was a militaristic state in which they provided limited state education. On the other hand, the Athens represented a democratic government and society in which education was offered and was…

Could you imagine, if boys were running around at night stealing , and a civilization where there is only fighting? When there are four times as many slaves\ helots than there are Spartans. Well, that is Sparta. Sparta is a small city- state that was located in Greece. They were established around 500 B.C.E. Spartans were the most powerful army in Greece. A state- controlled education, or agoge occupied a central place in the Spartan system. Education in Sparta: Did the strengths outweigh the…

Spartans were proud people. They pride themselves in being the most military focused city-state. They practiced and mastered almost every military practice known in that time. Sparta valued military strength over the many city-states of Greece, and they succeeded in doing so. The army of Sparta was almost always outnumbered, but they were so tough, that they managed to push through and emerge victorious in most battles. The strengths outweigh the weaknesses because they had an advanced…

In the city of Corinth, a woman named Medea was abandoned by her husband and banished from the city along with her two children by King Creon. Furious in rage, Medea plotted to seek revenge on them at all costs. She acts reasonable with Jason and gives him clothing gifts in return to bring peace between them. When Jason’s new wife put on her new clothes, she was in flames burning out alive. When Creon saw her daughter burning out, he jumped onto her killing himself. To make things worse for…

The Railroad Crossing in Corinth, MS has been immensely significant historically, and helped Corinth grow as a whole over a long period of time. The Crossroads were the intersection in Corinth of a main North/South line and a vital East/West line (the spine of the confederacy). There were many ways the Crossroads reflected this significance through history but were most obviously significant while the Civil War was going on. It was very helpful during the Civil War. The Confederacy used the…

Sisyphus was the King of Corinth that was damned to an eternity of repetitiveness in moving a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down the hill just to repeat the process. The gods thought this was an appropriate punishment due to his chronic defiance of the gods’ wishes by defying their wishes and literally locking death in chains. Due to this unique punishment, Camus has termed Sisyphus the absurd hero and claims that his punishment is symbolic of the human condition of strife and…

Greco-Roman City: Team Project Corinth, a city that has a history of two rich cultures that had great influence on the history of the world. Christopher Gornold-Smith (2013) called it, “Corinth a city between two cities with a decade between them” (Gornold-Smith, 2013). Corinth was destroyed in 146 B.C. by the Roman army. Corinth made the decision to join several of the Greek states to fight against Rome, and the Roman army defeated them and burned Corinth to the ground. All the valuables…