Thebes, Greece

rivers with the mountains separating the entire the land mass into areas with little escape and travel routes. Greece was different than the other european lands around it because of the rocky structure and the people needed to be stronger to survive in the hardships that came with the land versus the fertile lands and rivers in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and other land masses surrounding Greece allowed the people of those lands much more laid back style of living. The mountains made it much…

which was the powerful city state at the time. This civilization appeared during the late Bronze Age, were it started on the mainland under Cretan influence. Established cities of Pylos, Thebes, Athens, and Tiryns. They were seafaring people which meant they lived near the sea. One thing that they benefited to Greece was their art and culture. But what stood out the most, was their art of naturally forming flowing designs on pottery, fresco, and jewelry which was admired by their own people and…

history in areas near water with fertile land to grow crops. We first see Egyptians settling in the Nile River Valley as early as the 6th millennium BCE. This land was immensely fertile due to the very predictable flooding of the Nile (McGuire). Even in Greece where there were immense physical land barriers such as the Balkan Mountains, we see the most…

The Corinth War appears as one of the first conflicts that would further drive Sparta away from other members of Greece. Sparta and the Peloponnesian League faced Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos. Due to Athenian successes the Persians feared they would once again become too powerful so they pulled away and gave aid to the Spartans. This abrupt switch led to the King’s Peace in 387/6, which…

The Rising and Falling of the Greece Nowadays, people believed that Greek shaped the original culture of the Western civilization. It is also a junction for the Eastern and Western civilization. There are three significant periods of the Greeks: the Hellenic periods (2000-338 B.C.E), the Hellenistic period (336-323 B.C.E), and the period of the conquest by Roman (200-146 B.C.E).[ Page 54] During the periods, the people of Greece had the remarkable contribution on many careers, such as Science,…

Political Anatomy of Athens (Apr., 2007), Josephine Crawley Quinn looks at both sculpture types, Herms and Kouroi, relationship between them, roles of representations of male body in promoting and reinforcing the political ideals, democracy, in archaic Greece (Quinn, p. 83). The sculptures with different types and styles signified the different culture and political ideas of the certain region in that era. The article further discuss on connection between the herms and fifth-century Democratic…

city-states; each polis is unique from the rest as evidenced by Sparta and Athens. Sparta represented war, while Athens represented arts and democracy. Each poleis acted as states and were independent, had their own government, and trade system. Throughout Greece there were about a thousand poleis, but only a few are mentioned throughout history. The most…

would do risking his or her life. Even though Ismene and Antigone have different ways of seeing things, they still connect in how they are blood-related sisters. Although, they are not the only characters involved in the play; Creon, the ruler of Thebes is also involved with…

Creon has the rightful rule of the city of Thebes because he was born into a family of power and virtue. He also had the natural rule over Antigone because she was a woman and men were superior to women because Aristotle saw the women as less rational than the men. The law set forth by Creon to dishonor…

Values and Motives Affecting Fate From the beginning of Antigone, the sides are chosen. Creon, the new king, is motivated by his new position and feels he cannot let the people down. Antigone is motivated by her love for her family and the pain of the past. Both allow their values to run their actions despite laws being broken and family being killed. As all of this is taking place, the Chorus is there to guide the way. The Chorus acts as a director by showing the audience the scenes as they…