History of the Peloponnesian War

In the Pericles’ Funeral Oration, he first explains the people before them. How they paved a path for the road that they are on now. “But what was the road by which we reached our position, what the form of government under which our greatness grew, what the national habits out of which it sprang...”. He is portraying the value of honor during this point of the speech. Pericles wants his people to believe they are fighting for the best city in the world. He does this by transitioning from…

How Athens Is To Blame For The End Of The Golden Age Before the Peloponnesian War, Athens was already powerful within itself. However, their gain of more power and more territory alarmed the Spartans. This is what is the basis of this war. Athens undeniable thirst for more power. This thirst for power is what ultimately led to their downfall. All Sparta wanted was to ease restrictions on city-states that were allied with Sparta. But Athens refused, sitting not well with the hot headed Spartans…

The Greco-Persian Wars was a serious conflict between the huge empire, Persia, and the city-states of Greek. The direct cause of this war is the Ionian revolt. When Darius the Great (the ruler of Persia) came into power in 522 BC. Many cities were under the Persian control. Ionia was one of the cities. In 499 BC, Ionians started a rebel against the Persians. The Ionians had an early success. However, the army and the navy of the Persian were too powerful. The counterattack of the army and the…

In the next chapter of the book, Herodotus focuses on the Persian war against Scythians and becomes fascinated with their unique warfare. The Scythians were the people of Indo- European origin who invaded Media, revolted against Darius and threatened to disrupt the Persian trade network along the Black sea. Darius commanded his army to prepare for war from all sides of his kingdom though his brother Artabanus warned him of attracting Scythians because of the difficulty of finding them (Herodotus…

Athens, Greece, was considered a cultural, political, and philosophical hub of the known world during the Classical Period of Greece, which stemmed from 508 BC-322 BC. Several notable Philosophers rose to fame and notoriety in this time period, including Socrates, one of the founders of modern western philosophy. Socrates was born in 470 BC and would go on to have several notable students, including Plato, who was born in 428 BC. Socrates frequently found himself to be a lightning rod for…

Some of the Spartan soldiers questioned their King, King Agesilaus why there were no fortification walls around the city state. The king simply pointed to his soldiers and said, “These are Sparta’s walls”. Sparta is regarded as one of the most militaristic societies during the time of the Ancient Greeks. Between the 5th to 7th century, this city-state was considered the strongest military force. There was also a very unusual political system that included modernly a monarchy, an oligarchy, an…

western Anatolia there were people called the Lydians that were under the reign of King Croesus used the advantage that the downfall of Media gave them in order to push east who then clashed with Persian forces. A lot of our understanding of Persian history is completely dependent on the fact that contemporary Greek and classical writers, their main point is the relations between the Greek states and,…

Alexander took over greece because of the instability that war had caused. This is cause the country had been split up into city-states and was very multi-cultural. There were many different point of views within the culture which caused conflict. Greece for one had a lot of enemies like rome and macedonia. After ruler Epaminondas had fallen greek makes peace and created a short term league for safeguarding. Which actually brought more confusion to the country. Many rulers and officials formed…

poor soil land Terrain and many other things. Moreover the Greeks War new civilizations built off of Old civilizations like the Phoenicians in which Athens used their system of Pole to create their civilization. Furthermore with the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire the two civilizations begin to collide with each other and with Persia being the aggressor in their quest for Greek Conquest which had provoked the Persian Wars and as the two begin to fight the resistance against Persia is…

Eleutheria: Freedom “Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.” Western Civilization’s basic social norms and values traced back to Ancient Greece, were ultimately threatened by the overwhelming numbers and wrath of the Persian army. The Persians were distinctly divergent from the Ancient Greeks in the sense that their culture did not agree with the concepts of Western Civilization. An interesting fact talked about by…