Athens

climates, hosting various species of trees, plants and animals. Some of the Human and physical characteristic of Greece is Athens, which is the capital of Greece. It belongs to the Prefecture of Attica, located at the centre of the Greek territory. Attica is actually a peninsula surrounded by four high mountains that form a basin. In this basin, the city and suburbs of Athens have been constructed. The southernmost point of Attica is Cape Sounion, on top of which an ancient temple dedicated to god

council of a smaller body to make important decisions. Athens, with major developments in architecture and art, showed much contrast to Sparta. The city was dominated by two hills, Pnyx and the Acropolis. Pnyx is where meetings where held and the Acropolis was turning to a religious sanctuary. The city’s civic center, the Agora, took on the secular role during the early Archaic period. The land had precise borders marked by boundary stones. Athens was well known for its pottery and sculpture. The figural

sorts through the city. Or maybe a snowball-effect will occur inside our community. At first the idea of peace is brought to our attention via the play, next sections of Athens will feel the same, until the idea escalates into measures of action.      By having such events taking place, the city-state of Athens will grow in strength and moral. A sense of unity will flourish within our humanity. People will feel more of a harmony because of our newfound peace, and reflect so in

The Parthenon is located on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece; is a former temple which was dedicated to Greek goddess Athena, whom the Athens considered their leader. According to the British Museum (2015), The Parthenon was built nearly 2500 years ago and has a long and complex history. After thousands of years it became a church of the Virgin Mary of the Athenians, then a mosque and then finally resulted in a archaeological ruin. After the result of a ruin, the buildings were reformed in which

Art. It had a primary signifying function in Athens in the agonistic culture, as a wealthy prize for the Panathenaic athletic games, held every four years, given to athletes in first or second place filled with almost 40 liters of first class olive oil. The amphora features an early competition, and and an armed Athena on the other side. Amphora, which survive in large number is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products

Most people think of ancient Athens as the city of freedom and democracy, while they think of Sparta as a highly restricted society. The schools teach us that modern democracies are modeled on Athens, while military dictatorships are modeled on Sparta. However, history shows us that women had much more liberty in Sparta than in Athens. In fact, the democracy of Athens was available only to free men who were citizens of Athens. Moreover, to claim citizenship, an Athenian had to prove that both his

greatest achievements of Mycenaean Greece. Lasting from 1300-1000 B.C.E, Mycenaean Greece bordered Epirus, Macedonia, Phrace, Phryapa, Mysia, Caria, and Lydia. Encompassing this time span, Ancient Greece lasted from 8000 to 50 B.C.E. The achievements of Athens in this time include the Pythagorean Theorem and the Socratic dialogues. The epic Trojan War was said to have occurred in Mycenaean times as well. So were the Ionic Greeks who built this ancient temple. (Ancient-Greece.org)(about ancient history.com)

Marbles. They are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural pieces that were originally part of the temple of Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. From 1801 to 1812, Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, of which Athens had been a part for some 350 years, acting with the full knowledge and permission of the Ottoman authorities, removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon and transported them to Britain

Course | World Cultures I | Test | Week 5 Quiz | Started | 8/14/12 10:01 PM | Submitted | 8/15/12 12:53 AM | Status | Completed | Score | 62 out of 80 points   | Time Elapsed | 2 hours, 52 minutes out of 3 hours. | Instructions | This quiz consist of 40 multiple choice questions. The first 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 4. The second 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 5. The third 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 6. The last 10 questions cover the

The shaky past of Athens, after the loss of the war against the Spartans and the overthrow of the democracy they loved and fought for caused suspicion in Socrates who had association to Critas, a bloodthirsty tyrant in an oligarchy called the “Thirty Tyrants” From a harmless town character Socrates influence on the youth of Athens was being questioned. Socrates was brought into the courts under charges of impiety and corruption