History of Greece

The three definitions of Demos The first reference to the demos in our reading this week was in relation to the reforms introduced to Athens by Cleisthenes. In a move to restructure Athenian politics, Cleisthenes split Athens into ten tribes. These ten tribes were made up of the people in subdivisions of land he carefully carved out in Athens. He made sure that the original factions were split randomly and scattered amongst the different subdivisions of land. In this instance, demos referred…

“Art completes what nature can not finish.”- Aristotle. Greek art influenced the entire ancient world and a little bit of our world today. Greek art is not only split up by form, but also by era: Classic, Classical, and Classicism. Ancient Greece began what is known as modern day literature, art, music, drama, and other kinds of arts. Greek literature was developed as a national expression with little influence until the Hellenistic period and had a formative effect on succeeding European…

In ancient Greece, there were many places that were powerful in their own right. Athens and Sparta were two such city-states, but their ways of life were highly different. Athens was one of the world’s first well-known democratic cities, while Sparta was a place of militant oligarchy. Athens’s political system consisted of three levels of government. At the bottom of the bureaucratic hierarchy was the Ekklesia, the assembly of the people. The Ekklesia was made up of only males of Athenian…

wheat and other grains this art piece would have played an important role in showing the gods or kings how successful they were. The sole purpose of this art piece was to please the gods through food offerings. We learned in class that the people of Greece and other cultures always wanted to make their gods happy so nothing bad would happen to them (Lash). Therefore, using techniques such as offerings would have pleased them. Grain crops can be made into flour, and these can be made into many…

In the 5th century, a Greek city state named Sparta came and rivaled Athens. Sparta rivaled Athens because they have strength, discipline and obedience with their army, which sometimes is not a very good thing. (Background Essay). Many Greek settlements had to fight to survive, which Sparta did. I believe that the weakness outweighed the strengths. How did Sparta do this, how did they manage fighting for rivalry? One reason how they did this was with a strong, obedient army. Sparta had a…

during this time. During this time sculptures had an increase in scale and size. The Greeks used many different types of materials in their sculptures including marble, stone, and limestone, most likely because these materials were very abundant in Greece. There were other materials that could be used to create sculptures with such as, clay but because of clay being very brittle few of them have survived. Greek sculptures tell us a story about Gods, Heroes, Events, Mythical Creatures and Greek…

agricultural economy to support their warriors. My first point of view is that Sparta provided their army whenever required. The article states that Sparta was even considered a protector of Greece. Being the protector of Greece means that you have trained so much you have earned the title to support Greece, or Sparta that many other cities’ warriors couldn't. The text also states that Spartans emphasize only on expanding their power and gaining control over other kingdoms and cities’. This…

The Delian League, a military coalition composed of Greek states, was formed to combat against any further retaliation from the Persians after the end of the Persian Wars. Over time, however, the League strayed away from its initial objective. Under the leadership of Athens, the Delian League slowly evolved into what modern scholarships describes as the “Athenian Empire”. Soon after the League’s formation, Athens began to gain more control of the League through military might through examples…

In his play, “Persians,” Aeschylus depicts the Persian defeat at the Battle of Salamis as a result of the Persians’ confidence in their own numbers that caused them to underestimate the Greeks and their military skills and the hubris of Xerxes that arises from viewing himself equal to a god, which contributes to the Persian god bringing about the downfall of the army at the Battle of Salamis. Herodotus also shows the superiority of Persian military numbers and how the overconfidence in those…

I I chose this book because and this historical area because I personally really like Ancient Greece. I have lived in 3 different continents and have traveled the world which consequently gave me a very broad perspective on different cultures and styles and Greek architecture is by far my favorite. It is very unique and has definitely carried over from ancient time to this day. This book by K.J. Dover is on homosexuality which also is a very big part of todays society and culture. We have come…