Thirty Tyrants

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    requires them to give him private instruction instead of bringing him to court (A-39).This demonstrates how the Athenian population used the law incorrectly despite living in a democratic society. The Athenians often associated Socrates with the tyrants Alcibiades and Critias. Alcibiades loved Socrates and horses…

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    behalf of the Greek city states of Ionia, which had decided to revolt against their Persian overlords. The rebels from Miletus, one of the largest of the city states, had Athenian soldiers among their ranks, when they overthrew their Persian-backed tyrant and burned down palace of the Persian Satrap of Ionia at Sardis. The Persians were furious about this, to the point where King Darius had a servant whisper daily to him “Remember the Athenians, sire”. However, Athenian-Persian relations were…

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    The theme for A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, is that there is importance of the actions you make and that everything has a purpose. Like the butterfly that Mr. Eckels stepped on. Also the dinosaur that they were shooting. When Mr. Eckels stepped on the butterfly it changed the future. Bradbury wrote this story to keep us wondering what will happen next and to be careful about what we do because everything has a purpose. In this short story they experience the past, present,…

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    et al. 2017, 121). The clearest examples of this style of prose are these two sentences: “O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny, but also the tyrant, stand forth!” (Paine [1776] 2008, para. 107). Everyone that would have heard or read this knew that Paine was referring to King George III as the tyrant. Also, they would have acknowledged that Great Britain’s form of government a monarchy was tyranny. Likewise, Paine is urging Americans to declare their independence…

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    Democracy: a brief overview. Stoa Publication. Retrieved on Nov., 23, 2017 from http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/article_democracy_overview?page=3 LeCaire, L. (2013). Tyranny and terror: the failure of Athenian democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants. EWU Masters Thesis Collection. Paper 179. Eastern Washington University. Retrieved Nov. 23, 2017 from http://dc.ewu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=theses Brand, Dr. P. J. (n.d.). Athens & Sparta: Democracy vs.…

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    Hitler was a man of great destruction, he thought it was his duty to completely delete the Jewish culture from the entire Earth. He believed that he was very misinterpreted and misunderstood. Adolf Hitler was one of the deadliest tyrants of our history and we do not want to have the destruction that had occurred during his reign. Adolf Hitler was born April 20th 1889 in Branau am Inn, a small town in present day Austria, he was born to Alois and Klara Hitler and the fourth of six children.…

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    Rome has gone from abolishing kings and hating those leaders who became tyrants, to now following the rules and orders of an emperor! However, the people see that the emperors during this time period of the Pax Romana are actually not so bad and accept their rule. Marcus Aurelius for example was one of the emperors during this…

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    Utopia Dystopia

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    father worked in the trade. This allowed the son to be happy in his line of work, and was not a dramatic process. Government in Utopia is represented as a democracy and there was little hierarchy apart from the elected. Once a year, every group of thirty households elects an official, former`ly called the syphogrant, later called the phylarch. On average there were two-hundred syphogrant, and over every ten syphogrants there is one called the tranibor, now known as the head phylarch. It was…

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    Socrates Vs Greek

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    “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing”. This statement is a quote from Socrates, a philosopher that had lasting effects in Greek history. It began with Peloponnesian Wars, which ended with the desecration of Athens’ main source of pride, their democracy. Ensuing the loss of their government system, Athenians felt intimidated by Socrates and his beliefs, which eventually led to his demise. Athens executed Socrates after the downfall of their democratic system following their…

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    Revenge for Masculinity “Away, morality!” demands Atreus. In dismissing morality as though it were a servant, Atreus acknowledges that his revenge scheme is unethical (Seneca 249) However, he disregards this and disregards moral justice. His revenge instead emerges as an expression of prideful rage that roots itself in a bruised and diminished masculinity’s attempt to assure itself of its strength. Self-value and rationality become irrelevant in this prideful attempt to reclaim masculinity as…

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