Peloponnese

Though few details are known about the life of Xenophon, his hatred toward Athens and Athenian democracy is one of the primary themes communicated throughout the body of Xenophon’s work. Born into an aristocratic family within a democratic society that placed commoners in an equal political position to the wealthy, Xenophon was part of a class of people who were “greatly dissatisfied…with the operation of democracy.” Even if he had not been born into an aristocratic social class that showed…

was believed to be the inventor of the hoplite Phalanax which massively helped the Argives, as they were called, in warfare to gain control of the cities of Argolis and to rival the Spartans in power. They challanged Sparta for dominance of the Peloponnese and defeated them in the battle of Hysiae in 669 BC and twice afterwards but things have changed over the years. They have fought many wars and sided with different city-states until joining the Achaean league in 229 BC and later being taken…

The Peloponnesian War started when Sparta the leader of the Peloponnesian league and the largest land power in the region started to become concerned with the rise of Athens powers. Athens was a power in their own right; they were the largest sea power and was the leader of the Delian league. Neither Sparta nor Athens could afford to accept supremacy from the other country. Power can be a dangerous thing, those who have it don’t like letting it go, and those who don’t have it will do anything…

This ancient city-state abuses their children, at an attempt to make a strong military force. It is located on the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece. Sparta’s main focus, is the military, and they force all men to commit to the military until the age of 60. With this focus, the city-state only lasted 300 years. The weakness of Sparta did outweigh the strengths. There were more weaknesses in the way that they lacked education, boys are taken away from their families at a young age, and…

troubling periods amongst their men. In the case of Alexander, his kinsmen were far from home, and were questioning why they persisted to fight under, and with, Alexander. Pericles’s people doubted anything they might accomplish about the war in Peloponnese. Throughout their speeches, they possessed the aptitude to persuade. However, Persuasion is the weapon of the orator as the sword is the weapon of the warrior,…

In the year 600 BCE to 600 CE a new civilization emerged. This new civilization was Ancient Greece which is present day Peloponnese Peninsula. Ancient Greece was made up of city-states, a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories. These city-states developed governments and organized their citizens according to a constitution, a set of laws. Around the fifth century BC Athens developed democracy, a system of government ruled by the population. Ancient Athens wasn't…

years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The ancient Olympic games went for five days in summer ever four years. Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games, is in the western part of the Peloponnese which, according to Greek myth, is the island of "Pelops. Olympia functioned as a meeting place for worship and other religious and political practices as early as the 10th century B.C. The central part of Olympia was ruled by the majestic…

From Greek to English, the word “kouros” translates into young man. Such is the purpose of the Kouroi movement at the start of the Archaic Period in Greece, to represent young, strong men in funerary art. A man in his grave would not want to be remembered or represented as an old man, as told by Minnermus of Colophon in his poetry, where he stated, “But once old age with its sorrows advances upon us, it makes a man feeble and ugly alike” (Minnermus). These human sized statues were very much…

By 600 BCE Sparta had conquered her neighbors in the southern half of the Peloponnese. The vanquished people, called Helots, were required to do all of the agricultural work on land owned by the victors, making Sparta self-sufficient in food and ruler of a slave population seven or eight times as large. Not needing to import anything allowed Sparta to isolate herself from the culture of the rest of the world; fearing revolt by such a large number of slaves forced the country to become an armed…

On October 28, 1940, Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy, gave Greece an ultimatum. Italy wanted Greece, who was neutral in this war, to allow Italian troops to occupy certain parts of the country. Mussolini wanted to impress Hitler. “Hitler always faces me with a fait accompli. This time I am going to pay him back in his own coin. He will find out from the papers that I have occupied Greece.” (Mussolini ¶ 5)Italy invaded before Greece had a chance to answer, but Greece was able to…