Greece

Sometimes they sold beautiful little bottles of perfume, or big storage jars full of wine”(“Ancient Greek Pottery”). Art in Ancient greece changed throughout the years from the travelers that came and went that inspired all the work that was created. The most popular time period for art was the classical time period (“Greek Art”). Art was a form of expression in ancient greece and represent…

The Parthenon is the largest temple in Greece (Cite 2). It was built to accommodate the Chryselephantine statue of Athena by Pheidias (Cite 1). There was originally a temple built to replace an old temple that got destroyed (Cite 4). Pericles, ordered that it should be made for Athena (Cite 5). Power is also another important thing to the Greeks. The Greeks wanted to show how much power they had, and how important Athens was to them. In Ancient Greece, people would go into the Parthenon to…

Greece and Athens are well known for many reasons. The opulent structures, the detailed sculptures, or the compact cites that convey a busy urban living. All of these contribute to the awe-inspiring city. Athens is the site of many historical buildings such as The Agora, which was, in the beginning, a marketplace, but later on also contained temples and civic buildings. Another notable structure constructed in that time is the Akropolis; an ancient citadel which was composed of multiple…

BC the Persian war started. After the Ionians won the Ionian War against the Persians (with lots of help from the Greeks) in 499 BC, the Persians and their King Darius wanted to conquer Greece more than anything. The Persians also wanted to expand their area as well. This war happened in many different places. Greece, Egypt, Thrace, Cyprus, Aegean Islands, Anatolia, and more. There were many different people that helped Persia with this war. The most important person of all was a man named…

OF PERSIA OVER GREECE IN WESTERN CULTURE USAACE SFC Eric A. Curfman 15ZSLC 17-002 SFC Maradol History repeatedly tells us that ancient Greece is the cradle of modern democracy, and is one of the most influential cultures to modern western civilization (Borbor, 2008). Hollywood has popularized Sparta as great defenders of freedom and democracy, two pillars of our own way of life, while portraying Persia as a tyrannical empire bent on the destruction and assimilation of Greece. A closer…

tyranny democracy in started in Greece and Rome. Regardless, Rome was motivated and developed many of their political principles from the Greeks. In any case, there were a few contrasts between the two. Rome is halfway situated on a plain flanked by mountains toward the east and the ocean toward the west. This arrangement made Rome create as one substantial city-state that ingested moving populaces and trespassers from the north and south. The political structures of Greece and Rome depended on…

After Greece became embroiled in the Persian Wars, they forcefully subjugated their former allies. Bad decisions to continue wars, as well as serious infighting, caused the rapid fall of Athens’ democracy. Weakened from constant, unnecessary wars and infighting, Greece was easy prey and eventually entered under the rule of the Macedonians (Brand, n.d.). This was the beginning of a monarchy. After becoming a monarchy under the rule of King Alexander the Great of Macedon, Greece saw rule under…

begun due to the Spartans feeling threatened by Athens' increasing power. As a polis now known for its strength and military prowess, Sparta would naturally feel the need to assert their dominance over Athens to uphold their perceived greatness in Greece. The fact that states were willing to ally with Sparta despite Athens’ newfound power attest to Greece’s belief that Sparta was a powerful polis. Moreover, Sparta encouraged allying cities to the political oligarchy in favour of the widespread…

War was like entertainment in Greece as people were always at war with one another, trying to gain land. The mountainous terrain, in comparison to Korea, never stopped the Greeks from farming. However, because of how difficult it was for them to grow crops, they often traded goods for other crops in other locations like Italy or Spain. Money was always running through the streets of Greece in the ancient times, due to farming or entertainment. Civilians in Greece were always doing something and…

Europe’s own Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece was an extremely influential civilization that lasted from 750 – 146 B.C.E. (“Time Periods”). Settled on the mountainous Balkan Peninsula, this civilization was the birthplace of large advancements in governmental, healthcare, philosophical, and especially artistic ideas that have lasted through generations, affecting us to this very day. Theatre is one of the many Greek creations that is still revered in our society today. Ancient Greece was a…