Ancient Greece

Pergamon was an ancient Greek city located in Aeolis. Today it is located 26 km from the Aegean sea on the north side of the river Caicus. You can find out more about the history of this Ancient city and it's modern day counterpart online, on one of the many websites dedicated to Greek history.

First of all, we should note that only Athens and a few other city-states were ever democracies. The vast majority of Ancient Greece was ruled by monarchies or oligarchies and not by elections. However, the fundamental distinction between Ancient Athenian democracy and US democracy is that the Ancient Athenians had a direct democracy in which all persons entitled to vote would vote on all issues and the US has an indirect democracy in which all persons entitled to vote will vote for representatives who will then vote on all issues.

The primary reasons that Athens was able to implement direct democracy was that the area of the city was small and the number of voters was low. Only ethnic Athenian males who owned property were allowed to vote. This was less than 10% of the population of Athens. There were also limits on who could be the leaders of the state, restricting that to several noble families. This made it possible for everyone to have a say in almost all affairs. Conversely, the United States had 3.9 million people at independence with over 1 million voters, spread across thousands of square kilometers. It took weeks to ride a horse from one end of the country to the other; such a system of direct democracy was unfeasible. Additionally, most of the writers of the US Constitution believed that the voice of the people had to be countered by human rights and stern judgment. This led to numerous positions, like Senators, the President, and the Supreme Court being appointed by other elected officials (state legislatures, the Electoral College, and the President and Senate respectively) in order to allow this kind of sterner judgment to prevail.

The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece lived on Mount Olympus, which is a hill that can be viewed from the city of Athens. Those gods and goddesses were all too human. Vain and selfish in the extreme they sought after power, luxury, and wealth. They can be compared to modern day capitalists, who install themselves in luxurious citadels, and from there issue edicts, proclamations and prognostications. They are similar in a sense to a modern day G8 summit. Their personal lives when examined closely are very human and far from godly. The ancient Greek gods and goddesses were infamous for their arrogance toward mere mortals. The origins of these god/men are related in the Biblical book of Genesis 6.2. At that point in human history, some people took over and became rulers over the human population. The Greek gods and goddesses similarities to modern day Politicians, Bankers, and Religious leaders are striking.

From copying Egyptian sculpture, it developed rapidly to its own distinctive purity of form. Unlike the marble artefacts we now have, the Greeks lived in a riot of colour, and these statues original were painted in gaudy colours which a over a couple of thousand years has fallen off.

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Meaning of the bee in ancient greek

Greek literature boasts three great writers of tragedy whose works are extant: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

The person who crossed the finish line last.

Alexander the Great

I think the closest to the God of storms would be Zeus as he was the God of thunder and lightning.

The Greeks and Minoans built their empires by adapting to life near the sea. Even with a lack of arable farmland, the Greeks and Minoans were able to feed the people through herding, trading, and farming native crops (olives, grapes, etc.) The Greeks also demonstrated great competence in altering the landscapes for their cities, temples, and monuments. The Minoans, it appears, ended up succumbing to their environment however upon the eruption of the volcano Thera about 3500 years ago.

The soul or spirit in Ancient Greek is psyche (ψυχη); in later Biblical Greek pneuma (πνευμα=breath) also occurs, usually as the Spirit of God.

Pathos - APEX :))

a man called Zak Effron

Ancient Greeks were people who worshiped many gods as polytheists. Fifth-century Greeks did not see themselves at the mercy of gods because they thought the gods were benevolent.

When the Greeks left the wooden horse outside Troy they also left the spy Sinon to be captured by the Trojan forces.

Sinon explained to the Trojans that the horse was a charm to get the Greek ships home safely, and that if the Trojans could take the horse inside their city it would protect Troy from future Greek attack.

The idea was that the Trojan's claimed the horse as a gift, hoping to benefit from it; but this was what led to the fall of their city.

A virus which describes itself as an app plays the same trick: it looks like a gift, but in fact is a poison.

So Trojan is the correct term.

Be a citizen. If you were a slave imported from elsewhere you could always run away, but where to - a non-Greek place would also enslave you.

Plato was one of many thinkers who wondered about the universe and the human soul. He wrote about these subjects in his Timaeus. This was written in about 448 BC BCE.

The police role was carried out by the Scythian archers, who had been sold to Athens from southern Russia to provide a missile force for their infantry. When not involved in fighting they were used for public service, such as law enforcement, as the Athenians had an aversion to physical enforcement between citizens. 'The Archers' were even used to carry ropes covered in chalk to herd citizens around, as the chalk would mark out for arrest or shaming anyone who was in a prohibited area or not heading for assembly meetings as required. They feature in some of the contemporary plays.

In 499 BC several Greek cities in Asia Minor rebelled against Persian rule. To help their fellow Greeks, two city-states in mainland Greece - Eretria and Athens - sent soldiers to join the fight against the Persians.

The Persians put down the revolt, but Darius recognised there would be ongoing problems of interference from mainland Greece so he sent an expeditionary force to brig Eretria and Athens to heel. This was turned back at Marathon, so he decided to bring all the mainland cities uder control. He died and his son Xerxes carried out the plan, which was defeated in three battles - Salamis, Plataea and Mycale.

No. All Romans were not Christian. One bad Roman Emperor even blamed Christians for a disaster that he did himself!

Their time of peace and prosperity

A zoster is an ancient Greek variety of waist-belt.

Stheno and Euryale didn't become like Medusa. Medusa became like them. Before Medusa had become a woman with snakes as hair she was mortal. Her sisters were not. There are two versions of Medusa's story. One was that Medusa became cursed because she slept with Poseidon in Athena's temple. The other story was that Medusa had sworn celibacy to Athena, but forgot those vows and married Poseidon.