Pericles

Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remebered particulary for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in arachaic Athens. Cleisthenes was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting in on a deocratic footing. For these accomplisments, historians refer to him as "the father of Athenian democracy." Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He…

The form of government chosen by each city-state in Greece played a large role in the character and treatment of its citizens, as well as their treatment of other city-states. The oligarchy style of government used in Sparta and the democracy style of government used in Athens both have strengths and weaknesses that helped form the culture of each of these two city-states. The Spartans chose an oligarchy style of government that was ruled by a small group of men called the Council of Elders.…

He then began to look at the play Venice Preserved. He provides a brief summary of the play and then goes on to say “Clearly the plot is constructed to exploit conflicting loyalties, rival claims”. At first the play seems like a model of ambivalence even containing on each side symmetrical betrayals. Rabkin proceeds to present many similarities in this work to Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth yet these allusions appear to be misleading. Venice Preserved is more significantly modelled on…

forsake a life of luxury and leisure so that he could study philosophy. Around 463 BC he decided to move to Athens, which was fast becoming the intellectual center of the time, while he was there he became friends with a politician by the name of Pericles and he became friends with the playwright Euripides. Anaxagoras was the first person to put forth the molecular theory of matter, “he believed that matter was infinitely divisible” (Anaxagoras of Clazomenae). Anaxagoras was also the first…

Ancient Greece and the Ancient Grecian people were a prominent and intellectually advanced civilization at a time in history where Gods and Goddesses ruled their empire, and human sophistication was at its peak. Having studied gravely into the “science” aspect of the Ancient Greek Civilization and Classical Greek civilization there is much to be said about ethical logic, substantial reality, and what is morally acceptable in any certain association may change as time succeeds on into the future.…

William Shakespeare was said to be born on April 23, 1564, also known as St. George’s Day (Ackroyd 3). Shakespeare was baptized two days later on April 26, 1564 in Holy Trinity Church (Life par. 2). He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove maker (Life par. 2). Shakespeare was very lucky to survive; nine percent of children died within a week of being born and eleven percent died within being a month old (Ackroyd 4). Shakespeare is known to have…

The balance between the law of the state and natural, or divine law is a topic that has been scrutinized for thousands of years. Antigone by Sophocles and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. share similar standpoints on the controversial matter that has baffled philosophers. Sophocles uses Antigone to assert his opinion, as she disobeys Creon’s law and buries her brother, Polyneices. Similarly, King structures his plan of nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience…

playwrights specifically fit into one of these three categories for the sole purpose of encompassing individual themes into an overall arching category. Some of Shakespeare’s historic playwrights include: King John, Richard II and Richard III, and Pericles. He wrote several comedic plays such as: As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That’s Ends Well, and Merchant of Venice. His playwrights categorized as tragedies are perhaps the most adapted into films like his comedies were.…

Genocide is the “’acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.’(Genocide Convention, 1948,) these acts included killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group and also deliberately inflicting conditions on a people such as ‘to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part.’”(Gellately and Kiernan, 2003) This crime and that of terrorism, which is the “use of terrorizing methods of governing or…

Creon and his power struggles with the Crown In Greek mythology, Antigone by Sophocles there were two leading characters Creon and Antigone. Creon was a king of Thebes, he was a tyrant who likes to enforce his laws on people. On the other and Antigone was the daughter and sister of Oedipus. A tragic hero is a character with noble and heroic qualities, who obligates an action and make a mistake which him/her downfall or destruction. In Antigone Creon demonstrated as a tragic hero in this play,…