History of the Peloponnesian War

wouldn’t know that they had city-states, and they did not like each other. They had many wars with other empires, but mainly the one with themselves. The effects of war are sometimes very dangerous. In Ancient Greece, it got pretty serious. The effects of their wars were, after the Persian war they had defeated a strong enemy, the civil war made Athens way weaker than when they started, and after their own civil war, they left themselves vulnerable for Phillip II to invade and take them down…

a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician—”the first citizen” of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides. Pericles grew up in one of Athens leading families, his father Xanthippus who was a hero of the Persian war, and his Mother Agariste belonged to the culturally powerful Alcmaeonidae family. Pericles is known as the reason why the Acropolis and The Parthenon…

courageous like the Spartans, but instead the army is full of volunteers who are just a equally strong if not stronger, just as brave if not more brave, and all of this comes naturally to them. Since Athenians didn’t spend their lives training for war they did other things to occupy…

In around 450 B.C., the Athenian general Pericles attempted to combine his influence by utilizing open cash, the duty paid to Athens by its associates in the Delian League coalition, to bolster the city-state's craftsmen and scholars. Above all else, Pericles paid artisans to fabricate sanctuaries and other open structures in the city of Athens. He contemplated that along these lines he could win the doling so as to back of the Athenian individuals out a lot of development occupations; in the…

Background of The Greek Civil War The Greek Civil war may have been the most uneventful war in Greece history but it was very much the bloodiest. The war was a two-stage process from 1943-1949, in mostly northern Greece. The main reason for fighting was that the communist party of Greece (the KKE) wanted to spread communism into Greece. The Greek Government and anti-communist groups, however, were very against this idea and wanted to preserve the country from communism. The Greek Government…

The people of Athens and Sparta participated in public life in very different ways due to the differences in their social structures. Each had very different histories and events that led to two distinct versions of democracy within Greece in which different classes of people were able to participate at certain levels. “Sparta was a warrior society…and only warriors participated in political life” (Brand, 1). Their was certainly a strict social order with the Helots, or slaves and serfs,…

In Sparta deeds were more important than words, which is the explanation that Cartledge gives. This gives us the reasoning of why the history or evidence for Spartan’s history is difficult to come across or find. Until the early fourth century BC all Greeks made “heroic warriors”, but the Spartans were the one who actually trained for war. The organized their life from childhood around the means of being battle ready. One of the reason Cartledge give for their drive for military might was…

As tradition dictated in Athens during the 5th century B.C.E., a funerary ritual was held to honor those who were killed during the first of the Peloponnesian wars. Pericles, the leader of Athens at the time, was chosen by the state to give a speech in honor of those lost in battle. Reading the oration of Pericles we realize it is not just a eulogy but is in fact more than that. This leads one to ask, what is the purpose of this speech that Pericles gave to his nation? In addition to paying…

things such as he was the reason Cimon got kicked out of Athens, he led the golden age and was there to go through the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. During the golden age western culture…

Peloponnesian War In life their will always be fights. In fights their will always be two sides or more, and within those two sides there will be disputing and arguing before they decide to try and destroy each other. In many wars it has been noticed that we could have been able to stop it before it happened. Typically, one side is more to blame than the other by wanting too much power or not settling down. In the Peloponnesian War I believe Athens is more to blame for starting the war than…