Solon, Conflict in Athens

One Greek named Themistocles had been preparing for that moment for years. Although all the city-states of ancient Greece spoke the same language and worshiped the same gods, they were not united. Themistocles who came from the aristocratic ranks was the only man who could unite Greece. He knew how to make a city great and free. Themistocles wanted to build a navy that the world has never seen before. He built the Trireme, the deadliest warship of the ancient world. Greeks wanted to win battles by force, unlike the Persians who preferred to win battles through diplomacy, intimidation, and traders. Athens at that time had a practice called ostracism in which an individual is exile for ten years annually by an unpopularity contest. People would vote for a politician who

Investigating Athens' Treatment of Her Allies During the period of 478-431, Athens’ treatment of her allies changed dramatically as she rose to become the leader of an empire. The establishment of the Delian League marked the beginning of a significant series of events, which lead to Athens’ rise to extreme power. From the evidence of Thucydides and the inscriptions, it is possible to track the progress of these events and the rapidly changing treatment that Athens enforced upon her allies.

and Ares was on the Spartan military.The war started when ares got extremely anxious for war and messed with Athena, Athena agreed to the war and gathered an army as ares was off to do the same. Athena talked Athens into war, Athena and took three days to gather her army, Athena used her time gathering, training, and discussing their war plan. After those three days they met on the battlefield,Athena where were you been i was gathering

The people of Ancient Athens lived under the rule of an aristocracy where they needed a leader who would look out for them and help them rebuild their society and that’s where Solon came in. Solon was the reformer who took control around the year 549 B.C. that made the most significant changes because unlike the previous leader he changed society and government to make it accessible to all people not just the upper class. The first thing he did was change the class system so that it wasn’t hereditary and anyone could reach the upper class status if they made enough money. Solon also helped prevent a revolt among the lower class by eliminating the harsh laws that the previous ruler had put in place. Solon created a more fair and equal government

Greece and Australia are two countries who played a significant role in World War 2 together, in particular, the Battle of Greece and the Battle of Crete. These two battles were an important part of history due to their significance upon Greece, Australia and the World War. Cause and Effect Firstly, the Battle of Greece and the Battle of Crete did not occur without a cause. The foundation of these battles was because of Italian Dictator Mussolini’s sheer jealousy of Hitler’s military success.

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The Greek civilization was a great paradox, meaning that they had very bad failures but they also had great success. The Greeks were very divided, what I mean by that is that the Greek citizens were only loyal to their own poleis. These people would show no loyalty to Greece which lead to no political sense. Many people of Greece started to kill each other due to the conflict between each of the poleis. The Peloponnesian War was a war between the two city-states, Sparta and Athens.

In roughly 460 BCE, Epilates and Pericles launched an attack and changed their approaches of conservatism at home and positive relations with Sparta abroad. For around fifteen years (461-445 BCE), Athens, in cooperation with Argos, went to war with Sparta for control of the Greek territory; this was the First Peloponnesian War. At first Athens was triumphant, however, she was soon compelled to make peace with Persia (449 BCE) and afterwards with Sparta. An enduring consequence of the war was that Athens practiced stricter control over her partners: the Delian League turned into the Athenian Empire. Ruled by Pericles, Athens sought to keep traditions and maintain peace with Sparta. During this time, Athenians created the freest government the

king minos was upset. And with the help of Zeus they placed a tax on the city of Athens. The

He’s contributions didn’t only help Athens but also helped future leaders develop democracy into what would the U.S would use to form its government. Solon’s thinking was revolutionary for his time because at that time nobles were selfish and only cared about their social class and neglected everybody below them. He was the first Athenian to think of a government that could be ruled by the people and not aristocrats or

Solon is hailed as the person who started the democratization process in Athens though what he created is not what we would call a democracy. Solon was chosen by the people to create the constitution of Athens after the Draconian reforms of 621 B.C which were extremely harsh and drove the lucky people into slavery, for almost all other offences the penalty was death; the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, the overall morale of the people was low. According to Aristotle (the Constitution of Athens) “the strife was keen, and for a long time the two parties were ranged in hostile camps against one another, till at last, by common consent, they appointed Solon to be the mediator and Archon, and committed the whole constitution to his hands.” The civic unrest was so disastrous that Athens needed a radicle change.

In the Athenian Constitution, Aristotle, goes through the different constitutions the city of Athens has had. He also explains how certain people came into power, and tried to reform Athens. In this essay I will compare and contrast two significant people, Solon and Pisistratus, and how they ran the Athenian government. Solon and Pisistratus both wanted to create a fair city, and although they had the same mindset, they had completely different end results. The way Pisistratus and solon ran Athens can be a useful example on what will and will not work, when running a city.

The first mistake of Pericles came during his war speech. He advocated strongly for the prowess of the Athenian navy. In the event of attack from the Spartans they could “think like islanders and give up the land and farmhouses but keep watch over the sea and our city” (35). Obviously the people who lived in the farmland and countryside were discontent with abandoning their livelihoods and ancestral gods. Everything they ever knew and owned was essentially being thrown to the wayside nonchalantly by their leader.

Another result of the Athenian revolution is that the 700 families that were banished by the Spartans were able to come back to Athens. These 700 families would support Cleisthenes. When Isagoras tried to rule Athens, he brought Cleomenes, the king of Sparta ("Cleomenes I King”), and a group of Spartan warriors. “Afterwards, however, Cleomenes appeared in Athens with no great force” (Heredotus). Isagoras wanted to use the Spartans to kick people out of Athens. Isagoras marked 700 families as cursed, and the Spartans evicted them.

He tried to urge citizens to voice their opinions and contribute support like we do in today’s form of democracy (page 62 line 8). An alternative way Solon tried to encourage people to partake in the bettering of Athens was by turning Athens into a city of manufacturing. Prior to Solon, the people were poor and unproductive so he passed a law dictating that a son does not have to support his father unless he has been taught a trade (page 64 paragraph 2). This law invigorated fathers to show their sons how to assemble things such as metal, pottery etc. Solon correspondingly allowed/encouraged foreigners who knew trades to come to Athens to try to add to the welfare of the city (page 65 line 4). Solon granted citizenship to foreigners who emigrated