Ancient Greece

The symposion, or symposium, historically refers to a social gathering in ancient Greece where men would come together to discuss philosophy, politics, and engage in intellectual discourse, often accompanied by food and wine. Its position in society was significant as it served as a space for the exchange of ideas and cultural practices, reinforcing social hierarchies and networks among the elite. Additionally, it played a crucial role in the education of young men and the cultivation of civic identity, emphasizing the importance of dialogue and community in Greek culture.

At the beginning of the story, Daedalus is often described as skilled, innovative, and ambitious. His remarkable craftsmanship and intelligence reflect his ingenuity, while his desire to achieve greatness and overcome limitations highlights his ambition. Additionally, he can be seen as a tragic figure, foreshadowing the challenges he will face due to his hubris.

Oh, dude, we're talking ancient history here! So, technically, according to Greek mythology, Achilles was around way before Leonidas. Achilles was a hero in the Trojan War, which happened way before Leonidas and his epic stand at Thermopylae. So, like, Achilles takes the trophy for being the OG hero in this scenario.

Well, honey, after Alexander the Great kicked the bucket, his empire was like a bunch of kids fighting over a toy. His generals couldn't agree on who should be in charge, so they split the empire into pieces like a messy breakup. Plus, add in some rebellions here and there, and voila, you've got yourself a recipe for an empire falling apart faster than a cheap suit.

This quote by Euripides reflects the idea that an excessive focus on love can lead individuals to neglect other important aspects of their lives, such as honor and dignity. When love becomes all-consuming, it can cloud judgment and lead to dishonorable actions. Euripides is cautioning against allowing love to dominate one's priorities to the detriment of one's reputation and integrity.

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Greek art, architecture, and drama reflected Greek culture through their emphasis on balance, harmony, and idealized forms, mirroring the Greek belief in the importance of reason and moderation. At the same time, these artistic expressions transcended Greek culture by exploring universal themes such as love, power, and the human experience, making them relatable to people across different cultures and time periods. Through their enduring influence and timeless appeal, Greek art, architecture, and drama continue to resonate with audiences worldwide, showcasing the universality of their themes and ideas.

Well, depending on the individual city states, a couple different things could have happened. In some city states, the aristocrats themselves took power, and formed oligarchies, which are forms of government in which small groups of upperclassmen control the city state. Sometimes a tyrant would take over after a king, and the aristocrats would either stay aristocrats and advisors to the king, or be pushed down to lower class citizens as time went on to be replaced by other advisors the tyrant favored better. In Athens, the aristocrats would remain wealthy citizens when the democracy began (as a rule), but they would no longer rely solely on politics to provide for them.

C. Rajagopalachari

By Manjunath More Kolhapur

As a slave Aesop wasn't entitled to a last name. They weren't all that common at the day and age anyways.

The ancient Greek word "monarchia" (μοναρχία) means "rule by one" or "single rule". It is derived from two Greek words:

"monos" (μόνος), meaning "alone" or "single"

"arkhos" (αρχός), meaning "ruler" or "authority"

The story of the Iliad is as follows:

Nine years after the start of the Trojan War, the Greek ("Achaean") army sacks Chryse, a town allied with Troy. During the battle, the Achaeans capture a pair of beautiful maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaean forces, takes Chryseis as his prize, and Achilles, the Achaeans' greatest warrior, claims Briseis. Chryseis's father, Chryses, who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, offers an enormous ransom in return for his daughter, but Agamemnon refuses to give Chryseis back. Chryses then prays to Apollo, who sends a plague upon the Achaean camp.

After many Achaeans die, Agamemnon consults the prophet Calchas to determine the cause of the plague. When he learns that Chryseis is the cause, he reluctantly gives her up but then demands Briseis from Achilles as compensation. Furious at this insult, Achilles returns to his tent in the army camp and refuses to fight in the war any longer. He vengefully yearns to see the Achaeans destroyed and asks his mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, to enlist the services of Zeus, king of the gods, toward this end. The Trojan and Achaean sides have declared a cease-fire with each other, but now the Trojans breach the treaty and Zeus comes to their aid.

With Zeus supporting the Trojans and Achilles refusing to fight, the Achaeans suffer great losses. Several days of fierce conflict ensue, including duels between Paris and Menelaus and between Hector and Ajax. The Achaeans make no progress; even the heroism of the great Achaean warrior Diomedes proves fruitless. The Trojans push the Achaeans back, forcing them to take refuge behind the ramparts that protect their ships. The Achaeans begin to nurture some hope for the future when a nighttime reconnaissance mission by Diomedes and Odysseus yields information about the Trojans' plans, but the next day brings disaster. Several Achaean commanders become wounded, and the Trojans break through the Achaean ramparts. They advance all the way up to the boundary of the Achaean camp and set fire to one of the ships. Defeat seems imminent, because without the ships, the army will be stranded at Troy and almost certainly destroyed.

Concerned for his comrades but still too proud to help them himself, Achilles agrees to a plan proposed by Nestor that will allow his beloved friend Patroclus to take his place in battle, wearing his armor. Patroclus is a fine warrior, and his presence on the battlefield helps the Achaeans push the Trojans away from the ships and back to the city walls. But the counterattack soon falters. Apollo knocks Patroclus's armor to the ground, and Hector slays him. Fighting then breaks out as both sides try to lay claim to the body and armor. Hector ends up with the armor, but the Achaeans, thanks to a courageous effort by Menelaus and others, manage to bring the body back to their camp. When Achilles discovers that Hector has killed Patroclus, he fills with such grief and rage that he agrees to reconcile with Agamemnon and rejoin the battle. Thetis goes to Mount Olympus and persuades the god Hephaestus to forge Achilles a new suit of armor, which she presents to him the next morning. Achilles then rides out to battle at the head of the Achaean army.

Meanwhile, Hector, not expecting Achilles to rejoin the battle, has ordered his men to camp outside the walls of Troy. But when the Trojan army glimpses Achilles, it flees in terror back behind the city walls. Achilles cuts down every Trojan he sees. Strengthened by his rage, he even fights the god of the river Xanthus, who is angered that Achilles has caused so many corpses to fall into his streams. Finally, Achilles confronts Hector outside the walls of Troy. Ashamed at the poor advice that he gave his comrades, Hector refuses to flee inside the city with them. Achilles chases him around the city's periphery three times, but the goddess Athena finally tricks Hector into turning around and fighting Achilles. In a dramatic duel, Achilles kills Hector. He then lashes the body to the back of his chariot and drags it across the battlefield to the Achaean camp. Upon Achilles' arrival, the triumphant Achaeans celebrate Patroclus's funeral with a long series of athletic games in his honor. Each day for the next nine days, Achilles drags Hector's body in circles around Patroclus's funeral bier.

At last, the gods agree that Hector deserves a proper burial. Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector's father and the ruler of Troy, into the Achaean camp. Priam tearfully pleads with Achilles to take pity on a father bereft of his son and return Hector's body. He invokes the memory of Achilles' own father, Peleus. Deeply moved, Achilles finally relents and returns Hector's corpse to the Trojans. Both sides agree to a temporary truce, and Hector receives a hero's funeral.

The Ancient Greeks did not have a formal understanding of photosynthesis as a biological process. However, they did have some knowledge about plants and their relationship with the sun and soil, as evidenced in their agricultural practices and philosophical discussions about the natural world.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra married her first husband, her brother, in 47 BC at the urging of Julius Caesar.

No he does not, he has a planet. The gods were not represented in the heavens; that was an honor reserved for mortals. Instead, they had planets sacred to them. In this care, Mars was sacred to Ares.

There aren't many physical descriptions of the gods in classical literature, and what is offered is brief... Quintus Smyrnaeus in 'Fall of Troy' wrote:

"Ares, to gory strife he speedeth, wroth with foes, when maddeneth his heart, and grim his frown is, and his eyes flash levin-flame around him, and his face is clothed with glory of beauty terror-bent, as on he rusheth: quail the very gods."

The ancient Greeks inhabited the continent of Europe, specifically the regions of Greece and surrounding areas such as modern-day Turkey and Italy. They also established colonies in Africa, Asia, and other parts of Europe.

In Greek mythology, Ares, the god of war, is often depicted as having two pets: a pair of fierce and immortal war horses named Deimos and Phobos. These horses were said to pull Ares's chariot into battle.

North Macedonia is a country located in Southeast Europe, bordered by Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania. Its capital and largest city is Skopje. North Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and its official language is Macedonian.

For the most part, astronomy played little part in the daily lives of the ancient Greeks. Of course, those people would not have thought of themselves as "Greek", because there was no nation called "Greece". "Hellas" was just a geographic description, and the people were Athenians, or Spartans, or Corinthians or Ionians, or Lacedaemonians or Peloponnesians as subjects of one or another of the quasi-independent and often warring city-states.

Of course, the average person knew little of this either, being focused on his farm, or his sheep, or his fishing nets. In our modern society, all of our food is grown or raised by about 15% of the population, making it possible for the other 85% of the population to make things, or transact business, or write, or play games. Back then, 99% of the people were involved in basic agriculture and procurement of food, and only the kings and generals and their families were able to eat without worrying about where the food came from.

But except for the navigators of the fishing vessels, astronomy was a very tiny part of their lives, and limited to elaborating and retelling the mythical tales of the heroes and monsters who were arrayed in the skies above them. Those heroes and monsters are still known to us today, as the constellations in the night sky.

After the death of Alexander the Great, Ptolemy gained control of Egypt and established the Ptolemaic Kingdom. He founded a dynasty that ruled Egypt for nearly three centuries, until it fell to the Romans in 30 BC.

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, located near the present-day town of Selçuk in Turkey. It was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire and an important cultural and commercial center. Today, Ephesus is a popular archaeological site visited by tourists from around the world.