Theatre of ancient Greece

3. Musicians and dancers: Fine arts like music and dance have reached glorious heights during the period of the Vijayanagara rulers. The wide spectrum of music and dance in the Vijayanagara period is attested by testimony of sculpture. An attempt has been made to give an account of different aspects of the musicians and dancers in the Vijayanagara temples of Rayalaseema. The temple walls, pillars, adhisthana, gopura and other component parts display different models of musicians and dancers.…

INTRODUCTION Sparta was one of the most influential warrior city-states in Greek society. They reached the height of power after defeating a rival city-state called the Athenians in the Peloponnesian war which was in 431-404 BC. On loyalty to the state, military service was essential in Sparta. Men were trained to be soldiers for life. Life in Sparta mainly revolved around being a warrior. GOVERNMENT The Spartan political system had two hereditary mighty monarch kings from two separate…

time of day,” – Hazel Wong (Abdel-Razzaq, 2015) Humans, Body and Building: The idea of harmony and proportion has been haunting the human mind since antiquity. The use of proportion and measurement to create a harmonious city scape can be seen in ancient cities like Athens, Rome, and Cordoba but where does this proportion come from? Nature of course, but it’s a specific part of nature that humans relate harmony and proportion to: the human body. Vitruvius was the first person to publish his…

According to Plutarch, ‘instead of greed or want, there was equality’ and ‘ease’ in Sparta, as opposed to the rest of Greece. This is beneficial to a reader’s understanding of Sparta as it explains the ideal of homoioi present in Sparta at the time. This meant ‘men of equals’ and is what Spartans referred to themselves as. Due to Lycurgus’s reforms, Spartans no longer had…

Clytemnestra murders her husband after welcoming him home with false hospitality, thus demonstrating sick manipulation and an utter lack of loyalty and fidelity. Though this lack of integrity turns out hazardous for Agamemnon, it does display to the men of Greece that mortal women, who are not as highly respected as goddesses, are just as powerful while only using their mortal abilities. In particular, another woman who demonstrates predatory and manipulative personality traits is Circe, who,…

Plato's The Apology During the 428 B.C. to 348 B.C., in Athens Greece, wise man maned, Plato lived during 428 B.C. to 348 B.C. During that time, In 399 B.C, there was a Apology of Socrates, which was a trial during which the philosopher Socrates , where he was charged with many charges, he was able to defended himself..The Apology recreates the speech that Socrates made during the trial. The term “apology” that was used in the Socrates and Plato, has a different meaning from it is now. In the…

In Debra Hamel’s Trying Neaira the ideas of Orlando Patterson’s triad of freedom can be examined through the Naira's trail. When quantifying the question was Athens “free” the answer is yes, but freedom is dependent on who you talk about in ancient Athens and the context. In Athens, freedom was limited, in what is commonly hailed as the birthplace of the concept, though men were almost always freer than their female counterparts. With women, slave courtesan women, like Neaira, seemed to have…

Essay # 3 (Final Essay) Throughout history many scholars, philosophers and rulers have proposed a multitude of “ideal” forms of governing. In the Republic, Plato has made his own form of it. His governing involves the instatement that philosophers ought to be the primary rulers in a city/state; the Callipolis. With this set up Plato, through Socrates in the work Republic, conducts a systematic questioning of being. As the Republic, itself is an attempt to answer a problem with human…

Athenian War Strategy: Peloponnesian War Thucydides described the 21 years long history of the Peloponnesian War (431-411BC), between an alliance of Spartans and Athenian, the powerful city state of ancient Greece (war formally ended in 404 BC). This war was the result Athenian rising power because ‘the rise of new power always create uncertainty and anxieties' . Athenian and her alliance dramatically increased their power after thirty years’ peace treaty. Both alliances "refused to give up…

Thucydides described the 21-year long history of the Peloponnesian War (431-411BC), between the alliances of Sparta and Athens, the two powerful city states of ancient Greece (war formally ended in 404 BC). This war was the result of the Athenian rise to power because ‘the rise of new power always creates uncertainty and anxieties.' Athens and her alliance dramatically increased their power after the thirty years’ peace treaty. Both alliances “refused to give up their position under the…