Polis

activities that would be considered to be in the Oikos realm, rather now men have the freedom to expand upon their critical thinking and enter political discussion. However, Aristotle contradicts his account that the idea of fully participating the Polis sphere will not achieve the good life, rather it will limit him in the pursuit of happiness. He even defines citizens as people that partake an active role in public affairs. Why would Aristotle…

works were organized. The greatest achievements that the Greeks were proud of were the advances that they had in the philosophical and scientific thought. As the civilization of Greek evolved, there developments of city-states, that were known as Polis, that were popping up around the mainland of Greek. Their landscape helped in the development of these cities. Through their developed and independent and common governments, they built cultures, language, history, society and religion they…

Alexandria was one of the most prominent Hellenistic cities that embraced Hellenistic culture. Established and named by Alexander the Great himself, Alexandria is what has become “a Greek polis with citizenship limited to Greeks and Macedonians”(451, Ancient Greece). However, during the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Alexandria has been transformed into a flourishing Hellenistic city with new innovations. In order to preserve both Greek and Egyptian elements, Greek and Egyptian roots are…

1. H.R. 1013: Regulating Marijuana like Alcohol Act 2. The Regulating Marijuana like Alcohol Act is a bill that would change how marijuana would be viewed from a legal standpoint. The Attorney General would need to issue a final order that removes marijuana in any form from all schedules of controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act. (opencongress.org) Marijuana would be decriminalized at the federal level, leaving it up to states to regulate it in a way that is similar to the…

I. Introduction A. Attention Getter i. Informative 1. Greece, a beautiful country that bustles with commerce and culture. It is also a country full of faith. Greek Orthodox faith which is part of the great Western branch of Christianity. But it was not always this way. In this same territory, there was another world of which only fascinating fragments remain. Fragments that when joined, they tell extraordinary stories of a world ruled by powerful gods and heroes. A world in which the actions of…

makes sense with all the importance they placed on the natural body. According to Sayre “The physically fit male not only won accolades in athletic contests, he also represented the conditioning and strength of the military forces of a particular polis.” (qtd. in Sayre) This interest in the beauty of the human body led to the desire to create more realistic looking sculptures. Before humanism free standing sculpture was still very rigid and unnatural. The first kouros still resembled ancient…

Race, particularly whiteness, is a human construct with fluidity that has changed throughout time to denote the desired and powerful from the Otherized. Whiteness or Caucasian, as a classification of desired standing, gained popularity and support following its inclusion by German scientist, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the 1795, and has since been adapted to include and exclude different “racial” groups over time. The concept of race, and whiteness, is therefore a creation used to justify…

During the time of the Peloponnesian War, there was much turmoil in the city states of Greece. The two Greek main powers of the time, Athens and Sparta, were caught in a power struggle to be the main polis in control of the region. The turmoil sprung from the mutual distrust between the army centered Spartans and the naval centered Athenians: neither one wanted to lose to the other (Cartwright). Both powers were reaching to expand their empires in order to have a greater chance at defeating one…

greek education and was taught how to cut stone. It wasn’t until he was a little older that he began to pursue philosophy. He had a wife, Xanthippe, and three sons. During the fights at Delium, Amphipolis, and Potidaea, Socrates fought bravely for his polis. In fact, he is not much different than many of us here. Now he has taught many people in Athens about logic, male and female rights, and many other topics. Through his tutelage and logic on issues throughout this year, we have defended the…

The purpose of ancient Greek History during the time of Herodotus and Thucydides was a period of developing methods for the study of the past, documentation of wars, and creating historical and entertaining stories for the people. It was the time of initial inquiry of developing an understanding of the beginning of the story as well as the methods to gain this information. Roman historians of Polybius, Titus Livius Patavinus, Publius Tacitus, benefited from the previous establishment of…