Thucydides

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form of government or institution by a conquering party would implement a change. While these were all considered different in name they seemed to serve the wealthy and influential. Even democracy was often considered controlled by individuals, as Thucydides said of Pericles’ control over the Demos in Athens (Blackwell, 2003, para. 4). As there appeared to be so much instability in the governments of Ancient Greek city-states it seems like the identification of any individual system was…

Sparta possessed a significant and portentous problem with its need to control the helots of both Laconia, and Messenia. Moreover, the very Spartan system was founded upon the need to establish a hegemonic and despotic hold onto the helot populations of the Peloponnesus. Sparta was very isolated from the rest Greece. Moreover, Sparta did not possess the colonies that other poleis possessed to alleviate population increases as well as environmental pressures. In effect, Sparta created a warrior…

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The role of religion in Spartan life was one of great importance. It influenced the entire society both politically and culturally as these two aspects were intertwined through the constitution, a religious document designed off the interpretations of Apollo’s will through an oracle. This was considered the god ideals of harmony, order and reason. The nature of this belief was polytheistic and so, pleasing the gods and goddesses of who they perceived as divine rulers who decided their fates, was…

After heroic roles in the defeat of the Persians (480-479 B.C.), for the next half-century, Athens and Sparta assumed preeminence among the city-states, and their rivalry slowly led to the long-expected showdown. Thucydides, a contemporary historian, believed that the war broke out because of Spartan fear of the rising power of Athens, whose empire and capital increasingly isolated less imaginative and less adventurous rivals. Both were unusually powerful, atypical–and antithetical–Greek states…

Athens on Trial In 399 BCE a grave mistake was made by Athens which will go down in history. It was the trial and execution of Socrates, a great and mysterious philosopher. Socrates was charged and found guilty for not worshiping the gods and corrupting the mind of the youth. Both off the charges are trumped up or not true at all because he believed i vn the Oracle of Delphi but did not agree with what it was saying and that he did not tell the kids to follow what he was doing, they did it on…

philosopher with Founding work in political philosophy. He was born in 1588, in Wiltshire, England and Became a highly gifted student who soon attended Oxford. Thomas Hobbes’s first Published work was a translation of the Greek historian Thucydides completed in 1629. He was then noted and still recognized to this day as the author of the greatest works of Political philosophy. The “Leviathan” was published in 1651. By now you may be asking yourself, what is the…

How Athens Is To Blame For The End Of The Golden Age Before the Peloponnesian War, Athens was already powerful within itself. However, their gain of more power and more territory alarmed the Spartans. This is what is the basis of this war. Athens undeniable thirst for more power. This thirst for power is what ultimately led to their downfall. All Sparta wanted was to ease restrictions on city-states that were allied with Sparta. But Athens refused, sitting not well with the hot headed Spartans…

As the Athenian historian Thucydides believed, specific types of events and political situations repeat themselves over time, and the Roman Empire was subject to this as well. Though differences exist, the United States is a modern representation of the Roman Empire. A key characteristic of an empire is continuous expansion, and is seen in both international powers. Reducing the power of the ordinary citizen is also a common factor in the empire and country. Despite these examples though, it may…