Xenophon

Regarding Lycurgus as a man Plutarch refers to Lycurgus as a man, along side Xenophon, “I do admire Lycurgus…consider him a remarkably wise man”…

Greek means ‘purpose’), the Design Argument is one of the oldest, most prevalent and most popular out of all the arguments for the existence of God that have been created throughout the years. Ever since it was first recorded in Greek philosophy by Xenophon in 390 BCE, various forms of the argument have been put forth by many different respected philosophers of their respective times from Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages to Richard Swinburne in the modern day. Comparatively, however, many…

vengeful response, the Mycenaeans united with other Greek kingdoms to lay siege to Troy. After a ten year war, the city was breached and sacked, but only with the use of a ruse in the form of a wooden horse. Ancient historians in the likes of Herodotus, Xenophon, Arrian, and Plutarch tried to locate Homeric Troy. Most archaeologists attribute the discovery of the site of Troy at Hissarlik, Turkey, to Heinrich Schliemann in the 19th century. Whereas the mythical events surrounding Troy lack…

essence of true love making it simple. The motive of true love is embodied in the work. As well as motives and themes, there is history in the composition between the love of Romeo and Juliet. Originally, the piece was composed by a Greek historian Xenophon…

capacity to think deeply, and his career of pursuing greater understanding and contemplating his perceptions began. Socrates rarely wrote anything, so what we know of him and his thoughts comes from the writings of his contemporaries, such as Plato, Xenophon, and…

Perhaps this came from a conception that the Greeks, boasting the likes of Homer, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Sokrates, were an erudite people. For this reason we can infer that the Romans did not think of the Greeks as barbarians. Moreover, it is believed that the first work of Latin literature was a translation of the Odyssey. Again, this shows…

and Western philosophy” as there were “numerous ancient writers, philosophers, historians, poets and playwrights” who “were also aware of the values, ideas and truths imbedded in Greenleaf’s concept of servant leadership” such as “Plato, Sophocles, Xenophon, Cicero”, all “in the time before Christ” (Valeri, 2007, p. 54-56). Most of which were quite public about their thoughts on rulers ruling “ruled first and foremost on behalf on his followers” (Valeri, 2007, p. 56). According to Valeri,…

Greek Famous People Ancient Greece influenced the modern world in many ways. Ancient Greece had some of the best minds ever. A lot of the scientific information we know today came from ancient Greece like our solar system revolves around the Sun, and the Earth is round. There also was a great deal of philosophers from ancient Greece that continue to influence the world thousands of years after their death. Archimedes One example of an ancient Greek scientist that has discovered a lot of…

The necessary evil committed by the human condition during the Peloponnesian war was unnecessary, at the growth of greed and power through the expansion of Athens Empire was heavily affected by the conflict in 431-404 BCE. The war between Sparta and Athens had begun with the escalated greed for control and power over the Greek world. Athens control over the Greek world seized to exist after the embellishment of their power, which the Spartans had done in their great effort to overthrow the great…

Introduction: This article provides a brief summary of existing articles H_2 Storage on single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes by Gerasimos E.Ioannatos,Xenophon E.Verykios. And Hydrogen storage in carbon nanotubes revisited written by Chang Liu,Yong Chen, Cheng-Zhang Wu,Shi-Tao Xu,Hui-Ming Cheng. These articles discusses the hydrogen storage aspect in single walled and multiwalled carbon nanotubes. The first article discusses the adsorption of hydrogen on SWCNT and MWCNT at certain…