Athens

Olympia was a site, and therefore not ruled by anyone. People are ruled. Olympia was in the territory of the city of Elis.

British Airways offers a flight from JFK airport in New York City to London Heathrow to Athens, Greece that takes 12 hours 25 minutes.

The athenians helped sparta because even though they were enemies they had helped because they fellow greeks

He oversaw the side-lining of the ruling aristocracy, vesting power in an assembly of the property-owning citizens.

If citizens, they had total rights except where a law specifically rested some aspect - to exist, to own land and property, participate in the political and cultural affairs of the state, to punish adversaries, and control their own families.

They also had the obligation to obey any laws, serve in the army or navy when called out, and on juries.

Non-citizen males (metics) had limited privileges and the obligation to serve in the army in the special regiment which existed for them.

Male slaves had no rights.

The Greeks used visual arts, such as architecture and sculpture, to glorify and honor their gods. The Greeks are also know as the first playwrights, because they wrote the first plays.

A farming community established a fortress on a hill (acropolis) as a refuge if invaded. A city grew up around the acropolis, and beside the city a market place (agora) was established.

The concept of democratic government - our word comes from the Greek words demos = the people and kratos = power : power to the people

Pericles

Athens sent troops to help Sparta put down a revolt by their serfs. The Athenians started to show signs of favouring the serfs, so the Spartans sent them home, with lasting resentment on both sides.

Persia had a king. Athens had a direct democracy.

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Under the radical democracy installed by Pericles, the citizens met fortnightly in the Assembly and made decisions and gave directions on maters put before them by the Council. The Council implemented their decisions.

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After the initial democracy established by Cleisthenes in 508 BCE went into abeyance during and after the Persian invasion, Ephialtes re-established the democracy in 460 BCE. He was assassinated by the aristocrats and his deputy Pericles took over, expelling the aristocratic Themistocles son of Melesias and progressed development into a direct democracy where the citizens directed action meeting in regular assemblies.

Con No 1: Persuading Sparta in 479 BCE that it wasn't rebuilding its walls destroyed by the Persians until it had actually rebuilt them.

Con No 2: Pretending to support Sparta put down it serf revolt in 460 CE when it was encouraging it.

Con No 3: Pretending to be supporting the Delian League against the Persian Empire after the Persian threat had bated, when it was turning the League into an empire of its own.

Con No 4: Relocating the funds collected annually to pay for resistance against the Persians from Delos to Athens for security, when it was using them for its own building programme and for a fleet to enforce collecting the annual funds after peace was arranged with Persia.

Con No 5: Pretending to accept peace with the Peloponnesian League half way through te Peloponnesian War and then invading the Greek cities in Sicily to take them over.

In the Erechtheid dynasty

1556-1506;BC Cecrops;I

1506-1497;BC Cranaus

1497-1487;BC Amphictyon

1487-1437;BC Erichthonius

1437-1397;BC Pandion;I

1397-1347;BC Erechtheus

1347-1307;BC Cecrops;II

1307-1282;BC Pandion;II

1282-1234;BC Aegeus

1234-1205;BC Theseus

1205-1183;BC Menestheus

1183-1150;BC Demophon

1150-1136;BC Oxyntes

1136-1135;BC Apheidas 1135-1127;BC Thymoetes

Melanthid dynasty

1126-1089;BC Melanthus

1089-1068;BC Codrus

he lived in Athens Greece between 428 and 347 BC

They learnt from their parents - boys learnt from their father farming, a trade etc. They also learnt to fight to protect their farms and the city.

Girls learnt from their mother how to run the household, cook, garden, after domestic animals and manage the household slaves.

It set up an anti-Persian league after the Persian invasion was repelled, giving the couple of hundred Greek city-states the option of contributing ships or money. Most took the easy way of money, so Athens had the strongest fleet, paid for by others.

When a peace was signed with the Persians, Athens continued to collect the money - by force where nacessary - and so maintained its naval supremacy.

Socrates

Draco

Both were in a coalition of southern Greek city-states which defeated a Persian invasion 480-479 BCE. Sparta led the alliance at the start, but it left it to Athens in the second half of the 50-year war in which there were dozens of sea and land battles. After too many losses, the Persians agreed to peace and left the Greek cities to go back to their usual fighting each other.