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Ancient Greece
The ancient greek civilization starts around 3200 BC with the Cycladic civilization [followed by the Minoan (2700 BC) and the Mycenean civilization (1600 BC)] and flourished from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD, especially in the 5th century BC with the city-states of Athens and Sparta.
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What is the ancient Sparta activities?
There were a lot of cultural activities associated with Ancient Sparta. Here are a few.
1. The "Agoge" was a form of education/military training which the Spartans followed and were famous for.
2. The "gymnopedia" was a major annual festival.
3. The "krypteia" was the organized and clandestine killing of random Helots by young members of the Spartan class. (Helots were Spartan slaves.)
4. The festival of Artemis Orthia was an annual festival honoring a prominent Spartan goddess.
5. Infant exposure was probably practiced elsewhere in Ancient Greece, but it was particularly unforgiving in Sparta.
6. The Spartans had a set of unique laws and Lycurgus was one of their famous early law givers.
7. The Spartans had a tradition of speaking in a brief and pointed fashion. Consequently, there are extensive collections of Spartan saying which have survived the centuries. (We also get the term "laconic" from that aspect of Spartan culture.)
The list could go on, but this is decent start.
How did Homer keep alive the memory of Mycenae?
Homer kept alive the memory of Mycenae by writing popular poetry about it. Just about all that was known in antiquity of about that nation was contained in Homer's writing.
A tragic hero who dies in the end is the main character in a?
A tragedy is the form of play in which the main character dies as a tragic hero. A tragedy always includes death and destruction in its content. Heroes are tragic, because they die or are destroyed. They all have fatal flaws that contribute to their deaths or destruction.
Is fishing the largest part of ancient Greek society?
Their primary substance was from the land - grain, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit. Fish were a supplementary source of protein.
What happened to Echo in the end?
Echo used to distract the Goddess Hera while her husband Zeus cheated on her whit other nymphs. When Hera discovered this, she was furius and punish Echo by taking away her voice, except in foolish repetition of another's shouted words. Echo were therefor only capable of repeating someone else's words.
At some point Echo sees a young man in the forest and follows him around. She wants to talk to him but off course can't speak first. Finally the young man (Narcissus) hears her footsteps and asks "who's there?" and Echo repeats "who's there?" - finally Echo shows herself to Narcissus, but the young man turns her down.
Heartbroken Echo spends the rest of her life alone in the glens pining away for the love she never knew, crying until all that is left of her is her voice.
Thus to this day we can sometimes still hear Echo repeating our voices, or so the tale says.
Did the Spartans win the war against the Persians and were they gay?
The Spartans were part of an alliance of southern Greek city-states which defeated the Persian invasion in 480-479 BCE.
Their males were married late after they had proved themselves as warriors. There was a firm sanction against pre-marital sex for women, so until males married, many formed sexual alliance with boys, but became married in due course and lived heterosexual lives thereafter. The boy when they grew up continued the same pattern.
This is a pattern of life still practised today (eg Sikhs) where there is a strong taboo against pre-marital sex, where adolescents substitute until legal heterosexual can be established.
Athenians or Spartans had hubris?
The Athenians , only because they came to grief during the Peloponnesian Wars by overestimating their powers to overwhelm Sparta .
Which came first Greece or Moses?
Even assuming that Moses was a historical figure that lived during the dates commonly suggested, roughly 1300 B.C.E., it depends on your definition of "Greece". The Minoan Civilization on Crete is usually considered a "Greek-ish" civilization. It shares much in common with what we think of as traditional Greek civilization, but has a number of distinct qualities. The Minoan Civilization was certainly older than Moses, existing from 2600-1450 B.C.E. Moses was contemporaneous with the Mycenaean civilization and specifically the accepted dates of the Trojan War. The Mycenaean Civilization was from 1600-1100 B.C.E.
However, the Ancient Greece that kids are usually taught about in High School, e.g. Classical Greece, with the city-states of Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Argos, where Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Pericles lived, came long after Moses, from roughly 700-300 B.C.E.
Is it possible to kill an immortal?
No. "Mort" means death, so anything with "mort" in the name is bad news. (for example, VoldeMORT) "
mor, mort
mortal, death
mortal, immortal, mortality, mortician, mortuary
" (I copied that from a page) Anything that is MORTal can die. I'm mortal, you're mortal, my cat is mortal, the bird cawing outside is mortal. If something is IMmortal, it can't die, because im-, il-, ir-, and in- mean the opposite of or "not". and IMMORTal is not mortal, so it can't die. There's pretty much always a counteractive way, though. Just do the opposite of what made them immortal.
How did the style of Phidias differ from that of Praxiteles?
Praxiteles' style was more life like in size and shape vs. Phidias' who's wasn't
Were Uranus and Mother Earth husband and wife?
Yes - at one stage of her many phases and activities but Gaia (mother earth) became tired of Uranus attacking their children and got the youngest son Cronus to do him in and replace him.
What law did the Athenians come up with?
The Athenians developed a range of laws, but one of the most significant was the legal code established by Draco in the 7th century BCE. Draco's laws were known for their severity, with the term "draconian" originating from his strict punishments. Later, the reformer Solon introduced more humane laws around 594 BCE, focusing on debt relief and social justice, which laid the groundwork for Athenian democracy and legal reforms. These developments were crucial in shaping the legal and political landscape of ancient Athens.
What Spartan league was formed to stop the advancements of Athenians democracy?
The Spartan-led Peloponnesian League was formed to oppose the Athenian empire interfering in dominating and pillaging other Greek city-states. Democracy had nothing to do with the 27-year war which ensued.
What would a mom from Sparta most likely say to her son that was headed off to war?
Come with your shield or on it.
What wars occured in ancient Greece?
Greece was comprised of over 2,000 independent city-states, which fought each other regularly on various pretexts and rivalries. Add in foreign invasions such as the Persians, Macedonians and Romans, there were always wars going on over a thousand years. It was much like today's world where each year brings a war of some sort - minor and major.
How did the scythians help the Persians?
They were not really helpmates of the Persians. They repelled a late 6th Century BCE invasion by Persia led by Darius I, who barely escaped wit help from some of the Ionian Greek city-states within his empire.
What was the marketplace in ancient Greece called Why did people go there?
Agora (= field). It was a place of trade, social meeting. In Athens, for me there were perfume shops where they went to gossip.
How did the development of writing affect Greek cultures?
It facilitated communication and record keeping.
