Athens

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Although there are likely many answers or opinions to this, Athens is best known for its concept of exercising democracy, as it is one of the earliest initiators of this form of government on record.

It would stand to reason, based on the early concept of a Democratic form of government, Athenians would have valued the law.

Sparta was stronger on land, Athens stronger by sea.

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The women of Sparta had rights, participating in sports and open lifestyle, compared with Athenian women who were kept in purdah in the home rearing children and working in the house and garden.

A navy is not on land, so neither had the best navy.

Persia got back at Athens by giving the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta the money to buy and pay for the running of a war fleet comparable to that of the Athenians. The money allowed the Spartans to offer double pay to the crewmen, and so attract the best seamen.

The Parthenon was not originally white. In the early 19th century art historians first proposed that the Parthenon, along with all ancient Greek structures were actually painted. The term for this is "polychromy." It has taken a long time for scholars to accept that this building was painted because of preconceived notions about the architectural purity of Greek buildings. However, close observation and modern scientific analysis have proven that the Parthenon was in fact originally painted several different hues including blue, gold, and red. The University of Iowa has done a computer generated model of what the temple may have looked like with its paint in tact.

The Spartans won the Peloponnesian war, the only war between the Athenians and the Spartans.

Pericles used his money on gold,ect. to make statues and buildings

In 508 BCE a limited democracy was created under the leadership of Cleisthenes.

During the Persian invasion from 480 BCE, the aristocracy took control of the city-state to organise resistance.

After the invasion was repelled, the ongoing war against Persia kept the aristocracy in control until 460 BCE when Ephialtes reestablished democratic control.

He was murdered for this, and his deputy Pericles took over and kept it going.

Pericles organised the banishment of the aristocratic leader Thucydides son of Melesias in 444 BCE, and radicalised the democracy so that the council became the servant of the popular assembly.

During the Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE the popular assembly made crucial errors, and was replaced several times by a broadly-based oligarchy to repair the damage.

After Athens was defeated in the war in 404 BCE, there were short-term oligarchies which were eventually by a democracy.

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'Acropolis' means high place. The acropolis was built in Athens on a large hill looking over the city.

Athenians choose officials by lottery because they believe this system was fairer than an election. In addition, election by lot helped to protect against one person gaining too much power in public office. Juries were chosen by lot on the day of the court case to try and defeat judicial corruption, as it would be difficult to bribe members when you didn't know who was going to be on the jury.

It shifted over time as did all the Greek city-states. Originally friendly with Sparta, this fell apart 50 years later. Athens also turned the anti-Persian Delian League into an empire of its own, living off it to finance its Golden Age. It fought Thebes, then allied to it, and sided with many other city-states when convenient.

The Ancient Greece world was comprised of over 2,000 independent city-states spread around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals, so there was no 'capital' as each was politically independent.

The Agora made a huge difference in the ancient Greeks life. They sold goods and bought goods in the Agora. The women collected water from the fountains, and people could communicate in shady parts of the Agora to get out of the scorching sun.

Spartan Women overall had a lot more rights, rather then the Athenian Women. The Spartan women could sell property, own small businesses, chat with other men (whom they are not related too), wear shorter dresses, and go around the city by themselves. The only thing they couldn't do was hold office, and vote. The reason why they could do all of these things is, because in Sparta the woman didn't spend as much time with their husband since they were always training for the next war. Rather then the Athenian men, they had much more time to socialize so they mentored the woman a lot more.

It was a direct democracy - no members of parliament to distort the public will. Decisions were made by the whole people in assembly, meting fortnightly. The council put matters before them, executed their decisions, and administered routine business between meetings.

In the law courts there were no judges and lawyers to muddy the waters. Large juries of several hundred decided on both guilt and punishment. The large juries were in effect equivalent to a modern opinion poll of what the citizens thought right.

All adult males were eligible to carry any political or public office (except generals, who were selected on ability for obvious self-protection reasons). The difference in ability of individuals was camouflaged/evened out by having panels of ten filling each office, in the expectation that at least one would have common sense. And it spread the money around, with half the populace on the public payroll.

All adult males served in the army and navy, meeting their mutual responsibility to protect themselves and the state.

It existed best when Athens had an empire it had made out of harnessing the other cities of the anti-Persian league and extorting money from them, which it used for its own benefit. This enabled the large numbers on the public payroll without crippling taxes.

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Athens was a city-state. Therefore Athens was both a state and a city and thus the capital. The broader province of Athens (i.e. the rural areas) was and still is Attica.

An equivalent example was the city-state of Corinth or Sparta/Lakonia (both today exist with same borders and names as prefectures of Greece).

For the nearly 200 city-states exposed to Persian domination, protection (at a price). This benefit ceased when the Persians agreed to a peace which kept them out of the area, but Athens continued to levy the price and spend the money on a fleet not against the Persians but to continue collecting the money, by force if necessary, and spent it on its own city beautification and public service.

Athens led a league of 180 Greek city-states after the Persian invasion had been driven back to preserve the independence of those cities which had been under Persian rule. After the Persian Empire gave up trying to impose peace on these Greek cities, Athens kept control of them, turned them into an empire of its own. It lived high on the proceeds and kept a large fleet which forcibly collected the annual funds levied for defence against Persia, but now used by Athens for its own benefit.

Aspasia, (470-410 B.C.), the mistress of Pericles, ruler of Athens