Thracians

The Festival of Dionysus was an ancient festival held in Athens, Greece in which three poets wrote three tragedies and one satyr play that were to be judged in a competition (“Great Dionysia”). All the plays by one poet were witnessed in one day, so the competition was held over a span of three days (Gaines and Westersund). The festival was held in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and revelry (“Great Dionysia”). 2. What is the role of the chorus? The chorus was a group that generally…

priorities. The city of Capua, a town southwest of Rome, close to Mt. Vesuvius, was home to a well-known and prestigious gladiator school. This was the spawning point of one of the largest slave riots in history, the Spartacus Rebellion. Spartacus was a Thracian, a group of indo-European tribes. He was enslaved and put into gladiator work. What gave Spartacus such an advantage against the rest of the gladiators, and later, the Legion, was his mercenary background with the Roman Legion. Spartacus…

The saying “A Picture’s worth a thousand words,” is quite a symbolic phrase. In history and archaeology, these words are seen and used in studying the past. As such, the same phrase can be said about objects. Any historical object or artifact provides a unique story that have been qualified through numerous amounts of research, archaeological digs, among other sources. However, objects provide a very challenging discourse. In the world of Ancient Greece, the application of coins proved to be…

Comparing the archaeological evidence that has been unearthed in the last 145 years in Turkey, Greece, and the Aegean to Homer’s Iliad will show that at some time in the Late Bronze Age a war or series of wars took place between Achaean forces and Troy. It was called the Trojan War. This war has defined the way people view ancient Greece. This story of mythological gods and heroic warriors has provided insight into the attitudes, customs, religion, and warfare of the ancient Greeks. The story of…

In the sections I was assigned of The Natural History, Pliny goes on to talk about the Helix and its characteristics, different types of Ivy and how they vary from one another, Smilax, and water plants and how people had different uses of them. For example, people used Reed to make arrows. This paper will provide a summary on what Pliny touched upon in passage 334, as well as problems that may arise with Pliny’s depiction of these plants. This paper will also touch on who Pliny was and whether…

This type of oceanic ridge is a characteristic of what is known as the oceanic spreading center that is responsible for seafloor spreading. (Geonature) The seas surrounding Greece are the Ionian Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Crete, the Thracian sea, and the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea are the most commonly…

In this paper I will be examining Virgil’s Aeneid. I will be examining the text’s structure by following specific taxonomical elements throughout it, identifying patterns and consistencies as those elements occur, and deriving a single possibility of meaning from the established patterns. Then I will interpret a single excerpt of the text that best exemplifies and proves the derived possibility. In this text, Virgil tells the story of how the Trojans became Romans not only by the will of the…

aspect or became involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia. In the Iliad, the word ares is used as a common noun synonymous with "battle." This ambivalence is expressed also in the Greeks' association of the god with the Thracians, whom they regarded as a barbarous and warlike people. Thrace was Ares' birthplace, his true home, and his refuge after the affair with Aphrodite was exposed to the general mockery of the other gods. A late-6th-century BC funerary inscription…

Almost nothing is thought about Spartacus. Numerous antiquarians trust he was a Thracian conceived in 109 BC, and may have been a fighter in the roman armed force. As a young man at twelve years old, he was sold into subjection by his mom. He filled in as a slave in a mine for a long time before he was purchased by Lentulus Batiatus. Spartacus was additionally prepared as a combatant at the gladiatorial school close Capua, which was possessed by Lentulus Batiatus. As he was being prepared as a…

then reissued treaties with the city-states that were in the Corinthian League (except Athens) and was given full control and military power to fight the Persian Empire and King Darius III. As Alexander was securing the north border against the Thracian Triballians, Thebes…