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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 was the purpose of a ancient Greek housemaid?
The maid was a slave who worked cleaning the house and surrounds, disposing of sewage, collecting water, helping with cooking, looking after children plus any other duties she could usefully carry out such as spinning yarn, weaving, and prostitution if the master of the house required it.
He was both.
He attempted to introduce Greek culture as a civilising influence amongst the peoples he took over, but was constantly diverted by conquests until his early death. After ten years spent conquering the Persian Empire and then beginning to introduce Greek culture, he was also planning a venture to take over Carthage and Sicily in the west when he died/was assassinated at the age of 30.
How did tragedies drift into comedies form ancient Greece?
Tragedies did not drift into comedies. The were performed at separate festivals: the tragic in the spring and the comic in the winter.
How does democracy in Ancient Greece compared to democracy in the US today ask?
In their direct democracies, he citizens met in fortnightly assembly and made decisions which were implemented by a council. This was only possible by the smallness of the Greek city-state, where citizens could walk to and from the assembly. It is impractical in large countries today for such assembling for voting, so there is representative democracy, where citizens elect representatives to attend a parliament and vote on their behalf - often not necessarily as the citizens would wish. Modern computing has now made it possible for citizens to vote but don't expect the political class to give up its power voluntarily and implement such a system anytime soon.
What do you call the last period of Ancient Greece before they were conquered by the Romans?
The last period of ancient Greek history was the Hellenistic period, which is categorised as starting from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC as ending with the annexation of Ptolemaic Egypt in 30 BC following the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII by Octavian.
In which century BC was the golden age of Greece?
Any civilization's Golden Age is deep in its mythical past immemorial. The Golden Age of the Greeks probably refers to the late Stone Age, before the invention of metal weapons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who were considered citizens in the democracy of Athens in ancient Greece?
Men who owned property and who had completed their military training.
How did the culture in Athens differ from other greek city-states?
because OF Nickelodeon AND CARTOON NETWORK CHALKZONE
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
