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FACTS It took place in ancient greece\ 431-427) VERY IMPORTANT 430, Athens offered peace and Sparta refused. Then, in late 429, .Athens won two important naval battles (Chalcis and Naupactus) and Sparta started to regret their refusal. A year later Spartans ally, Mitylene was being attacked and Sparta just left them to surrender. This was contradicted by Plataea, Athens' ally, surrendered because Thebes had completely destroyed their city and population. But, this did not stop Athens. They began

Alexis Lauren Robinson December 03, 2014 Odyssey Sections Book Thirteen: 1-79: The section of this book in which Alcinous is stunned by how much Odysseus has suffered. Alcinous believes that he will sail home from Ithaca. The king and the rest of his people throw him a type of celebration in which they slaughter an ox, sing, and Odysseus is launched into the sea. 80-212: Royal escorts took the gifts produced by the queen

In the days of Plato’s existence, the soul was a living, non-material entity that was created before the person and would continue on after the person was no more, unlike contemporary concepts of the soul, this concept was not based on religion or religious views as it didn’t exist then (Stevenson, Haberman, & Matthews Wright, 2013). Plato believed that one must endeavour to take care of their soul as it is eternal and more important than the body (Stevenson, Haberman, & Matthews Wright, 2013). Plato’s

of the Ancient Agora of Athens and dedicated to the Greek goddess Aphrodite under her epithet Urania. Today, there are a few saved stones on the slope of the hill beside the train tracks and near the temple of her husband Hephaestus. 2. Museum—Piraeus Museum Sunday-Saturday 8am-3pm 3 Euros Char. Trikoupi 31, Pireas 185 36 Includes a collection of sculptured grave monuments of the 5th and 4th century BC. 4th century statues (2 of Artemis and 1 of Athena). Religious life (1st floor—room 5) houses

Badiou’s translation and reimagining of The Republic, we follow Socrates in his search for the universal definition of what is justice? He goes around with his “students” having three different arguments one with Cephalus, a rich old man from the Piraeus another with Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, and lastly with Thrasymachus, a renowned sophist. Not only is Socrates looking for the universal definition of what is justice? but the way he approaches it is what’s interesting. Socrates clenches inundating

The Role of Themistocles in the Greek Defeat of the Persians in 480 - 479 BC. At the beginning of the 5th century BC, the Persian Empire extended from modern day India to western Turkey and as far south as Egypt. The Persian ruler, Xerxes, fuelled by his father Darius' past defeats, vowed to extend the empire further west into the lands of Greece though was unsuccessful. His failure is largely attributed to the foresight and strategies of a respectable, wealthy Athenian

to pay for its protection. Athens used this revenue to further improve its navy, as well as improve its own infrastructure and defenses. Included in these improvements was the construction of large walls around the city and down to the port at Piraeus, home of the Athenian Navy. The open Athenian democracy stood in stark contrast to the strict oligarchy of Sparta. A political, philosophical and cultural center, Athens' power and prosperity depended on its command of its great maritime empire

In a relatively resource-poor region, a society rose from the access of foreign sources of raw materials and markets abroad. This society came to be known as one of the largest nations in Eurasia. The rise and fall of this great nation has to do with war-fare and the conflict between city-states. Their division led to the widespread of language and culture. This is the great story of Ancient Greece and how individualism changed the view Greece had on certain issues. (Bulliet 99) From 1000 B

This essay focuses on the analysis of one of the few archeological monuments that has been saved and is still in use, the Odeon of Herodes. It was one of the last major public buildings to be constructed in Athens. Located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis and built during Roman times in 160 - 169 A.D by the wealthy Herodes Tiberius Claudius Atticus, a teacher and philosopher in memory of his wife Regilla. A stone theatre structure which was designed mainly for music festivals, singing exercises

The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic which hit the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. It is believed to have entered Athens through Piraeus, the city 's port and sole source of food and supplies. Much of the eastern Mediterranean also saw outbreak of the disease, albeit with less impact. The plague returned twice more, in 429 BC and in the winter of 427/426 BC. Some 30 pathogens have