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Athens
One of the Ancient Greek city states, Athens has become the Capitol of Greece. It was home to Plato and Aristotle as well as a center of cultural activity up to the modern day.
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How was power in Athens handled differently than power in Persia?
Persia had a king. Athens had a direct democracy.
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.
How far away is Sparta from Athens?
I believe the distance is 153 Miles or 150 miles people say it is one or the other.
Who is mostly credited for the reforms in Athens that brought democracy to the country?
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.
Why did Athens have two kings?
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
What did the ancient Athens learn for education?
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.
How did Athens get larger and powerful?
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.
What role did Athens and Sparta play in defeating Persians?
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.
How long does it take to get to Athens?
Madrid (MAD) to Athens (ATH) Shortest Flight Duration: 3 hours 30 mins
How did a person qualify for citizenship in Athens?
it is illegal to have homosexual relations with any animals that are not of your species.
It became a radical democracy where the adult male citizens met in assembly fortnightly and dissected political affairs. Their decision was carried out by a council of 500, which carried out day-to-day business between meetings, and presented business to the assembly.
When did Athenagoras of Athens die?
The Greek statesman and orator was born in the year 495 BC, and is thought to have died in the year 429 BC. This would make him about 66 years old at the time of his death.
How does the development of democracy in Athens relate to your life?
Not a all other than as interesting history. The representative democracy of today is radically different from the Athenian direct democracy, and it came to us through several centuries of slow changes of European government in the second millennium CE.
