Athens

After 27 years Athens, its fleet destroyed, was besieged and starved into surrender.

No, men 18 and over were allowed to vote. Women in Athens were kept at home in virtual purdah, allowed out only for the occasional women's religious festival.

A tyrant was appointed as a sole ruler of a city-state to bring the aristocracy (oligarchs) under control, and rule for the benefit of all. They fell into disrepute as they had to establish a personal bodyguard to protect them from assassination by the oligarchs. This cost money and the oligarchs had to tax the people to get it; the people didn't like being taxed, so they eventually replaced the tyrants with a democracy.

Democracy in the ancient city - state of Athens was supported by its citizens who also were its soldiers [πολίτες/ οπλίτες]

Parthenon is in Athens the capital of Greece!

A full democracy consists of: a legislature (makes law; eg. parliament), a constitution (administers law; eg. government) and judiaciary (upholds law; eg. courts). It requires: 1. parliament (elected group of representatives). 2. constitution (made of operation). 3. freedom of expression (the people have control of media/criticism). 4. freedom of association. 5. rule of law (constitution). 6. seperation of power.

The Parthenon was considered the most beautiful building in the world at one time. It was designed by the Greek sculptor Phidias. Pericles had this temple built to worship the patron goddess of Athens, Athena.

He told them that Athens and its empire was stronger than the Peloponnesian League.

While Athens had plenty of money from its empire, the Peloponnesians had no such east money to finance a war; the Athenian navy was stronger - the Peloponnesians were farmers, not sailors; that Athens' fortifications were impregnable to land attack; and Athens' fleet was capable of invading the Peloponnesian cities while the home city was safe.

With this balance of power in Athens' favour, he told them to reject the Spartan ultimatum to lift the Athenian sanctions on Megara and accept war.

Neither side foresaw more than a dispute to be resolved by a battle or two, not the devastating 27-year war which ensued.

In the democratic period, they met in assembly and divided and were counted on motions raised.

You are obviously asking about ancient Athens. Well, during the years there were different allies to Athens according to what the needs required. At some point it could have been Sparta and then at another they were one against the other.

Anyway, Sparta was mostly allied to Athens when it comes to matters of being commonlt threaten. Thebes and Megara were also traditional allies on account of being close to Athens. Boetians and Corinthians too for the same reason.

greek colonies payed Athens to protect them from Persia and the How did the war against Persia bring new wealth and power to Athens went to building an even greater navy and improving life in the city itself

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This IS about the battle : the war began with an attack by the Spartan army. Pericles knew that his army was no match for Sparta's. He Called for Athenians living inside the city walls. The walls Protected the city,but Sparta's army destroyed the famrland around Athens.

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it was on the acropolis in athens, it was a market and trading center... for buying and selling goods.

According to ancient sources, the aged Aeschylus died when an eagle, carrying a turtle aloft so it could drop it on a rock and crush its shell, saw the elderly Aeschylus' bald head and unloaded the poor creature on him, killing him-and presumably the turtle as well. Such fanciful stories accreted naturally around the great tragedians and point, if not to any literal truth, to the abiding popularity and pre-eminence of classical drama in the ancient world.

The Acropolis.

Sparta's very society was based on a war culture. Infants who were ill or born with birth defects were allowed to die. Only the strong survived. At nine years old, boys became wards of the state, taken from their parents, and trained as soldiers. They considered themselves in a perpetual state of war against the Helots, their slave population. Some believe that this is because the Spartans were interlopers who invaded the Greek territories and settled there. By contrast, Athens was a democracy which existed by maritime trade. That opened them up to exposure to and acceptance of other cultures and views.

An acropolis was a high point in a Greek city which was usually fortified as a refuge in time of invasion.

If it is the Acropolis in Athens you are querying, it was rebuilt several times. It held temples to the gods and the city treasury. Original wooden buildings were rebuilt with stone temples in the 7th Century. When the Persians invaded and captured and held the city in 480 and 479 BCE, they destroyed the temples and broke up the statues of the gods as a reprisal for Athens' participation in a burning of the Persian provincial capital of Sardis and destruction of the gods two decades earlier. The Athenians rebuilt the temples and refortified the Acropolis.

The Acropolis temples were rebuilt on a grander scale in the 440s-430s BCE - the remains are still there today. They could afford to do this rebuild because Athens diverted the funds it collected for the anti-Persian League defence to glorifying its own city.

The Acropolis buildings were well built and might have been in good condition if looked after. However during the Venetian expedition against Turkey in the 16th Century, a French artillery officer, to show off his marksmanship, lobbed a shell through the roof of the Parthenon. It landed on a Turkish gunpowder store in the building and collapsed the roof as we see it today.

Neglect has seen ongoing deterioration of the Acropolis buildings to today's deplorable state. A rebuilding attempt a century ago was a disaster as the iron interlocks put in to hold together rebuilt buildings rusted and expanded and exploded the stones. Acid rain eroded the statues while Greece debated how to go about doing something about it. No significant rebuild has taken place and the buildings are given minimum maintenance to keep them viable as tourist attractions.

He may not have been near liars, cheats, thieves, & egomaniacs.

If they were male, free and 18 or over, citizens.

6,000 people but that is a very conservative estimate. Maybe it could have been as large as 10,000.

The acropolis is the flat-topped mountain around which Athens was built. The buildings on it started as afortress in the early 1st Millennium, and different temples were built over the following 500 years. After the Persians looted the temples in 480 BCE, they were rebuilt and extended under the auspices of Pericles with the money looted from a couple of hundred Greek city-states dominated by Athens.

The Ancient Athens Government was structured by the council of 500 people, the Assembly and finally the court. I hope that this information will help you.

A third of its population of a quarter of a million were slaves. A quarter of its people were women who were kept in the home working and rearing children. About 35,000 male citizens had full rights.

Spartan women were freeto join in the life of the city. Athenian women were kept in virtual purdah at home, looking after the house, the children and slaves, getting out occasionally for women's religious festivals.

Neither - both involved themselves in endless wars to little purpose and much destruction. All adult males were drafted into these wars. Sparta had an edge for women - they had significant rights and part of society, whereas Athenian women were kept a home in virtual purdah, bearing and raising endless children and working in the vegetable garden.