Classical Greek drama developed from the poetry of goat herds, which told the stories of tragic heroes. Ancient Athenian comedy was based on real people and current events, but later Roman comedy tended to use stock characters.
Ionian were one of the four main peoples of ancient Greek origin. They occupied mainly western Asia Minor as colonists from Athens, Eretria etc.
Did the Persians take over Greece after they won Thermopylae?
They occupied northern Greece and Athens, with some of those city-states going over to the Persian side. Then the Greek naval forces, having failed at Thermopylae, defeated the Persian navy in the strait of Salamis opposite Athens. This exposed the Persian sea supply route, and as the countryside could not support them in the coming winter, half their army had to go back to Asia, and the remainder withdrew to winter in Thessaly where there were grasslands for the cavalry horses. The following spring the Greek cities sent their armies to join together at Plataia where they defeated the Persians and their Greek allies. At the same time their naval forces destroyed the remainder of the Persian fleet at Mykale in Asia Minor.
Who were considered citizens in the democracy of Athens in ancient Greece?
Men who owned property and who had completed their military training.
What Athenian spoke out against the threat of Philip II and the Macedonians?
The famous orator Demosthenes (384-322 BC) spoke out against alliances with Philip II and with Philip's son, Alexander the Great. Athens was conquered, but retained some autonomy under Macedonian rule. Demosthenes exploited anti-Macedonian sentiments for most of his political career.
How did the culture in Athens differ from other greek city-states?
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What was Athens' first democracy like?
It was a limited democracy - the assembly was available to landowners, large and small. They voted in assembly and the council implemented their decisions.
Why were iron bars significant to ancient Greece?
In the emerging metals economy, iron was a valuable commodity, and iron rods were used as a currency - a rod was an obol, and a handful of obols (six) made up a drachma. A drachma was the daily wage of a tradesman; a labourer earned three obols. The iron bar was eventually replaced by copper and silver coins.
Why was Socrates sentenced to death?
for corrupting the youth of athens
For denying the official gods and corrupting the youth through his teachings.
if you mean Socrates it's because he went around being pompous and arrogant by claiming that All he knew was that he knew nothing. He would challenge all the learned men in the city and tried to get them to understand that they dont know anything. This made them all angry because claiming that no one knows anything is terribly annoying; He would also get people trapped in their answers in a way that they could not possible be "right". So instead of arguing any further, they figured its best to shut him up, permanently. He was put on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth, assumedly by instilling doubt in their mind about their own knowledge and the limits within. Modern society praises him since he tried to understand the roots of where we attain knowledge and to unequivocally question our beliefs. Concurrently however, modern society also finds it terribly annoying when someone takes all logic and reasoning presented in a debate and tosses it aside, focusing rather on our limitations in gaining, understanding and believing in that reasoning as the focal point of "our disagreement", rather than the issue itself. Why even bother to engage ourselves with that knowledge if the mere fact that we "know" it is in question. In terms of great philosophers, since his Socratic Method was the base for many other great philosophers' understand of knowledge, in between Confucius who made simple quandaries into convoluted riddles and that annoying teenager who keeps asking why no matter how you answer his question.
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What happened to the Greek city-states within 200 years after the death of Alexander the Great?
The Romans annexed mainland Greece, including the city-states in 146 BC.
What is an academy in Greek mythology?
An academy was no myth. It was an actual institution of learning. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, north of Athens,Greece.
When did the movie Greece come out?
The movie Grease was released on June 1, 1978. It is a romantic comedy that starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton John.
You mean the Parthenon? If you meant that, it is a structure that the ancient Greeks made in the Acropolis. You can see the remains and it still stands strong and proud. There also there used to be a statue of Athena that made out of gold but sadly as time passed by, theives stole pieces of the statue and nothing was left.
What are opinions on Agora Financial?
agora capital suggesting 3-D printing is the future change in our society are probably leaving out a significant variable " Raw Material Requirements " required to print and copy virtually anything. complex designs of modern day discoveries and develoments are built on the millions of engineering manyears of engineering design and manufacturing processes that include an innumerable variation of material coumpounds and variations of those ccomounds determined by complex manufacturing process, before using variale resonant wave emitters more complex than our world has yet to design that woud be required to point, scan, and print virtually anything. 3-D printing is just another significant manufacturing process for a limited number of materials using multi-axis positioning hardware software to lay down layers of materials heated from hard to liquidus stage to complete designs in the limitated materials that may be used on current 3-D printers.
While information is doubling every few years on the internet that used to take centuries, comparing this element of reality to manufacturing, historically, significant variables of the matrix are missing, the significant one follows
when clinton began free trade by taking down fair customs and duty making importers pay the same taxation american companies were/are forced to pay, the result was 42,000 engineering design manufacturing companies with more than 1400 employees were exported into virtual slave nations between 2001 and 2011 when the political spectrum activated a long planned free trade with china, the R & D Element of those companies are forever lost to time, consequentially most american designed goods are still being reproduced in slave country manufacturing companies that lack the debth of american R & D company sectors, which can be observed in the fact it takes 3 chinese workers to do the same job as 1 american worker, but the chinese worker gets 3.8 cents on the dollar to 1 american worker, making the labor costs 11.4 % of what it costs to make in america, when the american manufacturing infrastructure consisted of factories where white and blue collar teams worked in the best interest of the company, under the theme of ' A Fair Days Work for a Fair Days Pay " with at least as many blue collar workers rise to management and engineering design , R & D, sectors than those coming from the academic caste system, the near 100 million americs jobs lost to clintonian politics have resulted in the new america, where more than 80 % of american jobs are now paid near or below minimum wage and at least 1 in 4 american workers simply have no productive work to do as the resurrection of slavery to our shores by the trading clan do not allow us to make in america what america consumes---if we don't make the things we use exactly what is it that we are going to do, besides working in jobs that cannot be exported into virtual slave countries,which has drawn to a close our INDEPENDENCE, clintons replacment, obama is continuing to destroy our economic successes, and is increasing the end of our military capabilities required to defend our shores from invasion by the mass of near starving tyrannical nations massing together, to attack us when we are incapable of protecting our shores from invasion, for our food supply, because we do provide the world with 1/3rd of the food supply. the politicians who enrich themselves by enacting lobbie laws to enact insane laws like free trade are rich enougn to move onto international citizenry once we come under attack for our food supply, and could care less about the probable upcoming genocide of common america.
The next really big change in society will not be 3-D printing but the emergence of a one world power, the UN of NYC, where the world class mafia (FED) currently controlling our money supply and those of most modern societies, will restore Nobility to rule the world, their cartel of oligopolies supply us by telling us what to buy then selling it to us, their lower rungs of nobility, like the legal-medical-insurancefraud-extortion mafia, prisons of servitude, mass of social service organizations to supply to welfare voting clan " cargo society " with their; health, dental, food, entertainment, while encouraging black on white crime, unpunished in the inner cities where their welfare clan select security organizations who turn a blind eye to black on white/hispanic crime designed to support the criminality currently occupying most of the world by controlling the; money supplies, venues of information, broadcasting, publishing, academia, law, health, education and welfare, in their belief we are whatever we are told, taught, read, see and hear, creating their world of specially self chosen people while common people are allowed to be servants, slaves, hirelings, prisoners or worse, as we decend toward lower magnitudes of literacy, quality of life, while they increase the personal possessions and special positions of power or connections allowing their freedom at the expense of our freedoms, in " Their world of delusion " awaiting for time to bring changes they are incapable of dealing with, allowing us to see end time before them, the special citizens of a society of commercial criminality clubs that if you do not belong to you cannot join, currently underway, using the charade of politiical positions of power to destroy modern society for all but themselves, unfortunately, they are not wise men, and modern instrumentation that imperil their bizarre positions of power will be shunned, shutting down research and development of modernization in their world of self seekers of physical pleasures, rejoicing in the fact common people are denied anything but the chance to serve and some food and shabby accomidations in their society that has abandoned nature,(what would be the good in higher classes if lower classes had access to the same elements of highend society---in their demented vision of who they are) replacing it with; predation, genocide, denaturement of the world, awaiting the cyclic predictable upcoming ice age, they will not survive---unless anarchy, currently exponentially growing eliminate them from the picture of our world, restoring our creators human rights to arise each day in an effort to do the right things in life--- then things like 3-D printing over time may increase their access to resonante wave generators, optical resolution software/hardware capable of laying down layers of materials required to scan and print many more things than the limited materials currently used by 3-D printers
Was Pericles famous for tyrant of Athens?
Pericles was not a tyrant. Athens was a radical democracy and Pericles was variously a magistrate and general but had to justify his actions to the popular Assembly. He gained ascendency by arranging the banishment of his main political opponent Thucydides son of Melesias, but preferred to think of himself as 'first citizen' and had to influence his people by persuasion. His influence was, unfortunately too great, and led his people into a disastrous war imagining that Athens could use its empire to dominate the Greek world. He died of the plague before seeing the catastrophe that this war brought to the Greek world in general and Athens in particular.
Why did the other city-states in the delian league resent Athens?
Athens turned the anti-Persian league into an empire of its own, enforcing collection of the annual war funds by a fleet of warships. It then spent the money, not on security but on a high life for itself.
Did Persians spread Hellenistic culture?
Not really. The Hellenistic culture didnt affect so much the center of the former Persian empire (Mesopotamia). The most important centers were in Greece, Asia minor, the whole eastern coast of Mediterranean sea (Antioch) and Egypt (Alexandria).
Did Socrates agree with the Oracle at Delphi?
The Oracle of Delphi was asked if anyone was wiser than Socrates, to which the Oracle responded that there was not. Socrates claims to have been bemused by this as he always said he knew nothing. However he accepted that the god cannot lie, so he set out to expose false knowledge.
What criteria did you need to be a citizen and vote on the general assembly in Athens?
At the age of 18, to have been accepted by your tribe as a genuine Athenian.
Pericles did not rule - Athens was a direct democracy, with the people assembling every couple of weeks to make laws and gice direction to a large executive council of 500. Pericles was a general (there were 10 of them - one elected by each tribe), however as a good orator, he was able to influence the popular assembly. He is better described as First Citizen. His influence lasted from about 450 BCE until hi death in 429 BCE.