Ancient Greece

The Greek basis was armoured infantry supported by light infantry, and very little cavalry.

Persia had a strong component of cavalry to support and combine with its lightly-armed infantry.

The Greeks had to try to fight in broken country to neutralise the enemy cavalry, and their infantry could outclass the Persian infantry.

Several tribes of ancient Israel, Rome, Greece, probably others.

she was the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.

her symbol was the owl. basically think of her like wonder woman.

They thought that their gods made the natural events happen when they had bottly functions.

The Athenian who created the sternest code of laws was Draco. Draco was an Athenian archon in 594 BCE and created legislation that focused on the punishment of crime. The penalties were very severe and cruel and it is said that the laws were written in blood.

The ancient Greek words for food are "τροφή" and "βρώσις". They both are feminine, so the full form is "η τροφή" and "η βρώσις". Another word they used was "ο, η, το εδώδιμος-η-ον", meaning "eatable".

In modern Greek the analogue words are "η τροφή" , "η βρώση", but also "το τρόφιμο" , "το φαγητό" and "το φαϊ".

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Greek avarice. The Achaeans (Greeks) went on a ten year looting expedition around the coast of Asia Minor. After an initial failed attempt on the richest city, Troy, they came back in the tenth year of pillaging for another crack at Troy, succeeding this time, stripping and destroying the city and selling its population into slavery.

They most valued the large territory they had taken over in the southern Peloponnese Peninsula and its population whom they had turned into serfs: this gave them their power, both economically and their army used the serfs as light infantry, taking seven of them to support each Spartan armoured warrior, and so making their army the largest in Greece.

According to Louis Untermeyer, these were some of the evils contained: War Crime Famine Pestilence Spite Cruelty Sickness Malice Envy WoeWickedness However, all versions of Pandora's Box have Hope.

In Greek mythology, Cerberus is a three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld. Offering a sop to Cerberus means giving him a treat or bribe to appease or distract him. This act is usually done to ensure safe passage into the underworld or to prevent Cerberus from attacking.

This war was a conflict in Ancient Greece fought between Athens and it's empire led by Sparta. It divided them as a country.

People living on an island, in this case Crete, often care little for war; they have more important things to do...like making a living on an island.

Very mixed-up and rather confusing. She had three husbands and one lover. Her first husband was her older brother, who died of a fatal wound. Her second husband was her younger brother, who died by drowning in a river because he was wearing gold armor. She then had a lover, Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome, who she had her first child with, who was called Caesarion. When Caesar was murdered in Rome, she then married Marc Antony, who was a Roman general. They had three children; a twin boy and girl, and a little boy. Unfortunately, the twin girl, named Cleopatra Selene, was the only child of the four to live to adulthood. When Octavius conquered Egypt, Marc Antony killed himself because he was ashamed of the military defeat an thought Cleopatra was dead. Later that same day, knowing her husband was dead, Cleopatra let herself be bitten by a poisonous snake and died as well. She was going to be a slave to Rome her whole life if she lived, and who wants that? To her, her life was over. Very dramatic and overall melancholy love life, if you ask me. I mean, come on, all of her husbands died, and then she commitied suicide. Poor Cleopatra.

The Acropolis

polis = city, acro = peak, highest etc.

Everything. They imitated everything that the Greeks did. For example, sculptures. Plus, they held the greeks captives as slaves in order to "use" their intelligence.

He tarried too long after the Greeks decided to withdraw from the pass at Thermopylae having been betrayed by the Trachinian, efialtis. Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, another 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans were all killed.. On the other hand, they stayed behind holding the pass to let the other 7,000 vastly outnumbered Greek defenders withdraw before the Persian cavalry could break through and cut them down. He gets a tick.

as far as I can remember a paricipants loin cloth came off and his father was a politician of high rank and the rest took theirs off as not to make him feel uncomfortable or make him feel insulted, if you can confirm or deny please email me, I cannot remember where I heard this, Thank you

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he underlying cause of the war was Sparta's fear of the growth of the power of Athens. This is Thucydides' own final judgment. The whole history of the rise and power of Athens in the 50 years preceding justifies this view, though the immediate occasion of the war concerned Corinth, Sparta's chief naval ally. Since the peace of 445 B.C. Pericles had consolidated Athenian resources, made Athens' navy incomparable, concluded in 433 B.C. a defensive alliance with the strong naval power Corcyra (Corinth's most bitter enemy), and renewed alliances with Rhegium and Leontini in the west. The very food supply of the Peloponnese from Sicily was endangered. In the Aegean Athens could always enforce a monopoly of seaborne trade. To this extent the Peloponnesian War was a trade war and on this ground chiefly Corinth appealed to Sparta to take up arms. The appeal was backed by Megara, nearly ruined by Pericles' economic boycott, and by Aegina a reluctant member of the Athenian Empire.

But if Sparta had not also been eager for war then peace would have lasted. Sparta was waiting an opportunity that came when Athens was temporarily embarrassed by the revolt of her subject-ally Potidaea in Chalcidice in the spring of 432 B.C. The rebel city held out until the winter of 430 B.C. and its blockade meant a constant drain upon Athenian military, and naval resources. Sparta seized the opportunity. Confident of speedy victory she refused an offer of arbitration made by Pericles. Instead, Sparta sent an ultimatum that would have practically destroyed Athenian power. Pericles urged the people to refuse and Sparta declared war.

Another Viewpoint:

Athens, having converted the anti-Persian alliance it led into an empire after peace was made with Persia, was overconfident and interfered in the affairs of other city-states outside its empire. Disputes over Potidaia and Corcyra came to a head when Athens imposed ruinous trade restrictions on Megara, a member of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. The League demanded these be lifted, Pericles persuaded Athens to be confident of its walls and war fleet and refuse, and war ensued.

Hesiod - a farmer and philosopher author late 8th Century BCE.

Homer - a bard who reduced the bardic stories to writing late 8th

Century BCE.

Aeschylus - a poet who wrote plays 5th Century BCE.

Sophocles - a poet who wrote plays after Aeschylus 5th Century BCE.

There is the story of the Trojan war, an extended piratical raid from Greece looting Asia Minor and the islands.

It was also the ending of those Mycenean Greeks, with a confused movement of the 'Sea Ppeoples' through the Eastern Mediterranean, leading to the 'Dark Age' from which theclassical Greek world emerged several centuries later.

He expanded Macedonia's influence to control Greece. He also planned to take over the Persian Empire, but his assassination prevented this and his son Alexander reaped the benefit.

The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held for held in honor of Zeus because they want some thing to do and to honor their gods. According to Greek Mythology, Hercules started the games in celebration of his defeating and killing King Augeas and his sons, because Augeas did not give Hercules his promised reward after Hercules had cleaned the king's stables. After the original games, they were repeated every four years.

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The rich male citizens, the ordinary male citizens with subsistence farms, the non-propertied class, resident aliens, women, slaves.

To work in the home and vegetable garden, to bear and raise children, to supervise any domestic slaves. They were kept in virtual purdah, getting our occasionally for a women's religious festival.

Other women were slaves, courtesans and prostitutes.