Peloponnesian War

First off, I believe that Athens did not have the right resources and the right strategy due to lack of planning and a lack of willingness to adjust. Maybe if they had planned accordingly and made sure that they would be properly financed then it would not have been such a catastrophe disaster. The second reason I believe for the Athenian failure was the recall of Alcibiades. He was a man of his people and very charismatic. The only reason the Athenian people put up with Alcibiades behavior…

An individual living in Greece in the 5th century B.C.E would be better off as a citizen of Athens than as a citizen of Sparta. (better transition)During this time, Athens was swimming in cash. Where did they get all this money from? Athens got all of it from the Delian League. At first the league was created so that if Persia chose to ever attack again Greece would be ready. City-states apart of the Delian League would have to give contributions. This would typically be either money, men,…

Compare and Contrast: Pericles and Lycurgus Throughout history there have been leaders who greatly impacted their civilization. Pericles and Lycurgus’ leadership abilities, compared and contrasted as the two corresponded in the leading of their city-states of Athens and Sparta. As well as their impact on them politically and socially. When comparing Pericles and Lycurgus, the two leaders from rivaling city-states, related in multiple ways. To begin, both leaders impacted their city-states…

The City of Corinth In Acts 18:1 Luke provides an itinerary for Paul by writing "after these things (the events of Chapter 17) he left Athens, and went to Corinth." (All Scripture references are New American Standard Bible unless other wise noted). The cities of Athens and Corinth were only 50 miles apart but quite different. Athens was a city of culture and learning, Corinth was known for its commerce and profligacy. Corinth was located just south of the narrow isthmus which joined the…

Xenophon’s native polis of Athens. On the contrary, Xenophon’s Polity of the Spartans is quite a favourable account of Spartan daily and political life. Xenophon went as far as to ignore some mistakes of Sparta in Polity of the Spartans. Athens was war-torn when Xenophon was born, which essentially left him with no Athens to be loyal to. Xenophon was welcomed in Sparta and given a home. He enjoyed the friendship and patronage of King Agesilaus II of Sparta; he went so far as to write the…

speakers was pathos. There was a large number of speakers who were against the Delian League who decided to try to sway the audience by using emotions and values. For example, one character was a middle class, pregnant, Greek, women whose husband left for war. She unfortunately, due to her lack in education, has no skills to support her herself. She asked for pity from the audience, stating she could never support her family by paying to be part of the Delian League. This was a great way to…

In this present democratic society, political debates over policy are at the forefront of the collective conscious of the American people, particularly at this stage in the election cycle. Those of us living in the postmodern age, however, tend to fall into the highly fallacious mindset wherein democracy is thought of as being an invention of the recent age, and an idea about which we can learn very little by appealing to the ancient world which is so rife with stories of empires and conquests.…

strategic error? His arguments, while valid and logical, are not sufficient to win over the assembly to undo their vote of war. Not only does Thucydides have incomplete information about these events, but Thucydides’ prior knowledge of Nicias’s failure colors the way he reconstructs Nicias’s ineffective arguments against war. Nicias attempts to dissuade the assembly from a war it has already approved by discussing the lack of a compelling reason to aid the Egesteans, the challenge of conquering…

Pericles became the most influential politician and general in Athens from the late 450s until his death in c.430-29. He was from the prominent noble Alkmeonidae family which gave him status and privilege and he was closely involved at a young age, in the democratic reforms of Ephialtes (In which the power of the Areopagus was weakened and then transferred to the demos) Pericles had been the leader of the democratic faction of Athenian politics since 462 BCE and his leadership meant that Athens…

In Herodotus’ The History, Herodotus states the purpose of his writing as giving a report to the reason for why the Greeks and Persians went to war. After briefly reporting an account from Persian scholars, Herodotus notes that he neither believes or disbelieves the account. Instead, he rather finds fault with the man that he thinks first wronged the Greeks, Croesus of Lydia. Croesus, after succeeding his father in the rulership of Lydia, subdued and ruled the Greek city-states of Western Asia…