Epaminondas

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

maneuvers (Ober). The Athenian Xenophon notes in his account of Leuctra the interesting strategies that Theban General Epaminondas employed against the Spartans (see fig. 5). While the Spartans opted for the standard phalanx formation consisting of “not more than twelve men” in depth, the Thebans chose the narrower phalanx that was “not less than fifty shields deep” (Xenophon). Epaminondas also decided to position his cavalry in front of his infantry and have a strengthened left wing rather than the conventional

Combined arms fighting systems date back to ancient human history and were used by many civilizations from the Greeks, Persians, and eventually the later Macedonian’s led by Alexander the Great. Combined arms can be considered an art of war per se and when used effectively can leave the enemy devastated and fleeing. Each fighting unit has their own specific job and they can all compliment each other helping win the battle as well as keeping their own casualties low in numbers. In this Essay, different

War did it Hegemony In response to the question of “How Greek democracy ended?” , my direct response is that it ended because of war. Wars won by the strongest army determined the fate of Greek democracy which lasted for about 200 years. A hegemony, is “the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.”(Merriam Webster) In the case of Greek democracy, I believe the hegemons were those who won the wars. To see the picture, let’s start from the beginning of the

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

City, Nevada at the height of the silver rush to become a miner and journalist. Samuel found work at the Virginia City newspaper and began using the pen name “Mark Twain.” Other pseudonyms he used as a writer were Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, Sergeant Fathom, and Rambler. His first claim to fame was an article “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" that he wrote in 1865 for the New York Saturday Press. It became an instant success and allowed him to secure a