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by 200-300 Spartans. To his right the rest of the army was lined up across the field. What was different in this battle was how general Epaminondas set up his army (refer to maps at end of paper). A typical Greek battle would mirror each other. Meaning that for this battle general Epaminondas army would be set up very like King Cleimbrotus army. general Epaminondas changed things up for this battle. He lined himself up on the same side as the Spartan leader and the mass of men 50 deep. The rest of

Sophocles biography and drama connections “Antigone” begins with the city state of thebes being attacked by the Argive army and during the battle eticlies turns on his brother polyneices, and kills him then kills himself. Polyneices is given a proper military burial. But eticlies body was not buried instead it was left in the field to rot. The king of thebes, Creon made a law saying; that it was illegal to bury the body of a traitor, rather His body should be left for “carrion birds.” (antigone 1)

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

The Rise and Fall of Sparta Throughout the Archaic and Classical periods, the Spartan Empire was primarily defined by strength and power. With strong values of self-discipline and frugality, the Spartan civilization was able to stand high above the rest of the Greek city states. Though Sparta was small in size, she was able to compete with cities like Athens due to her well organized and structured government as well as her powerful and austere military. Dating back to 1150 BC, Sparta was theoretically

Philip II of Macedon was Macedonian who was able to take control of Greece. He was a member of the Argead Dynasty and the son of King Amyntas II. He was educated by Epaminondas, eromenos of Pelopidas, and the father of Philip III and Alexander the Great. Philip II made Macedonia a regional power using military reforms, political plots, and victories on the battlefield. He reformed the military by creating new military units and weapons. The hypaspists and the peltasts were the heavy and light infantry

On December 6th, 2008, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, was with his friends in Exarchia, a neighborhood in downtown Athens known to be a place for anarchist groups. There was a large amount of agitation between police officers and teenagers. Before 9 p.m. that night, two policemen were in the neighborhood and went to talk to the group of teenagers, despite their base’s warning not to. A short time after 9 p.m., one of the policemen, Epaminodas Korkoneas, shoots Alexis in the heart. The youth’s reactions

Fundamentally speaking, warfare is the means by which human society has been organized. The modern world is divided up into a number of states whose sovereignty is based either on the results of warfare or the threat of warfare. The ability of a states to wage and win wars is what determines the geopolitical pecking order. Those who cannot hope to win wars alone pursue policies and deals that ensure the intervention of more capable states in their defense, should one come about. Domestic policies

In 371 B.C. Sparta was overpowered by the Thebans, at the battle of Leuctra. A Theban general named, Epaminondas, commanded an invasion on Sparta. This was the rising point for Thebes and was the decline of Sparta. Although they lost the battle of Leuctra, they were still considered brave warriors (refer to ppt). However, the Spartans still did exist, but

Before the Spartans were known for their military might, they were just another Greek City-State. The Spartans took pride in their artistic skills, especially Spartan poetry . A key event in the rise of Sparta was the conquest of Messenia in the 8th century . After the conquest of Messenia, the Messenian citizens were made slaves, or Helots as the Spartans would call them . After dealing with a Messenian slave revolt, a Spartan called Lycurgus created a set of laws which all Spartan citizens had

Ancient Spartan militarism led to Sparta being a large military power in Ancient Greece, but the strict restrictions on citizenship led to the decline and destruction of the city-state. The overly strict requirements combined with a string of military defeats led to a weakened state from which the Spartan government could not recover from. This led to Sparta becoming a second rate power in Greece until its destruction at the hands of the Roman imperial army at the battle of Adrianople. Spartan militarism