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In the second war Persia burn down Athens but after it had been evacuated excecpt for some crazy religious people.

Euripides, the third of the three great playwrights of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles), strove to attain a much more natural style than the others. In many ways this makes his plays the most accessible of the Greek dramas.

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A serious attempt was made in 508 BCE by Cleisthenes who established the people's assembly as the arbiter of power, but this was reversed 20 years later in 480 BCE when the Persian threat brought the aristocrats back to power to lead the country's defence.

This was overthrown 20 years after that in 460 BCE when Ephialtes returned control to the popular assembly. He was murdered for this and his deputy Pericles took over, and twenty years later expelled the aristocratic counter-reformists, establishing a radical democracy where the male citizens met in fortnightly assembly to pass laws and direct actions which were carried out by the Council.

This radical direct democracy had a mixed result, with an over-confident Pericles leading Athens into the destructive Peloponnesian War, which lasted 27 years and devastated Greece. Pericles died and, opportunists influencing the people into often unwise actions. These resulted in Athens losing to the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Athens lost its allies and prosperity and settled down to becoming a second rate power, and adopted a restricted form of democracy which tried to get rid of the rabble-rousers.

The answer to this question can be very complex. However, if we restrict the answer just to the Greek classical period, the power to decide on almost everything resides with the assembly. The assembly is made up of all of the Athenian citizens. The real power, one can argued, may actually be exercised by an elected general, such as Pericles. Ten generals are elected every year, with no limitation on how many times a general can be elected. With the Assembly holding all the power to decide on all matters, there wasn't really a need to transfer power.

After peace was made with Persia in 449 BCE, he removed the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens. There it was pillaged to glorify Athens - building the Parthenon etc, to put half of Athenians on the public payroll, and to maintain the Athenian fleet, which with the Persian threat gone, was used to extort annually more money from the League cities.

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The Goddess Athena is the goddess of wisdom and war. She was behind Odysseus, and inspired him with the Trojan Horse idea. Which lead to the fall of the city of Troy. The goddess was also the patron of defensive Warcraft, with regard to tacticians and the intellectual side of war.

What separates the carved panels on the Athenian Treasury

Lorenzo de Medici was the owner of a large bank in Florence during the Renaissance. Lorenzo controlled Florence and was also a large patron of the arts. He also started a school for artists and sculptors, where many famous people were trained, including Michelangelo.

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Starting with monarch, the aristocrats took over and formed an oligarchy (rule of the few). Their oppressive, self-interested rule led to impending civil war and Solon was appointed for a year with dictatorial power to find a middle ground.

This did not last long, so a tyrant Pisistratus was appointed to re-establish a balanced government. After 40 years, a new generation forgot how bad things had been previously and expelled the tyrants.

The Oligarchs tried to grab power back, but Cleisthenes established a limited democracy including small landowners. This lasted 20 years until the Persian invasion forced the return of power to the oligarchs to run the war effort. They hung on to power after the invasion was turned back.

Twenty years later Ephialtes restored democracy, removing the oligarchs from power. They assassinated him for that but his deputy Pericles kept it going and developed it into a radical democracy where the citizens met in fortnightly assembly and made decisions which were implemented by the Council.

No, but they did have their Panathenaic and Olympic Games, so every time they did that, they got some exercise.

This question could apply to any peoples today. Some do (through social standing. People who do physical or manual work. Or through choice. Atheletes etc.) The ancient Greeks probably had a better lifestyle in regard to diet and climate and lack of modern stress but there is, in all probability, a similar proportion (per capita) of the population who led sedentary life's.

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Ba Ba Ba was the origin of the Greek word Barbarian - they said that foreigners' speech sounded like Bar-Bar and so invented the word Barbarian to describe them.

A major accomplishment of the Cleisthenes was that as before ,all the male citizens could participate in the assembly and vote on laws. Assembly members could now discuss issues freely, hear legal and appoint army officals.