and democracy. However, Athens also witnessed a lot of warfare and repression. Pericles was a great ruler and responsible for many of developments of Athens during the Golden Age. He was a leader and champion of democracy and also became a statesman, an orator and a general in the military. Pericles also made a lot of culture in Athens possible. He was looked highly upon, and wanted the best for the Polis. This reading comes from Pericles Funeral Oration, a speech delivered to the Athenian Public
Socrates and Pericles both share their ideas of what would qualify someone to work in the political arena. Both men had very different ideas and both men were extremely passionate about their views. To understand their stances on what qualifies a person to be politically active you have to understand their major differences as people. Socrates questions authority, He is always looking to challenge the status quo and is very weary of what is taught to the youth and what is accepted as the “norms”
the Campaigns of Potidaea, Amphipolis, and Delium he worked in the Athenian army. Socrates became a philosopher in late ages when he introduced diverse opinions concerning ethics and religion. He claimed to be loyal to the city due to his pursuit of truth in the Athenian politics and society. Socrates criticised the Athenian religion as well the Athenian democracy. During his trial concerning diverse opinions on Athenian democracy he praised his rival Sparta for leading some scholars in interpreting
People fight for equality for all individuals, each person treated the exact same. The problem with this fighting stance is that the equality they want accomplished is not actually equality. Equality means that each person is given equal opportunity to do what they desire. This opportunity does not guarantee that people will pursue those desires, but the opportunity stays available for them. When people want exact same treatment for each individual, they are actually fighting for sameness rather
The main structures of Athenian democracy according to Pericles was under his pick that Athens went to the most noteworthy purpose of its flourishing and satisfied standard government in its purest structure. That alone lets us know such a great entirety about what a wonderful pioneer he was. He had trust in making Athens the ideal city and worked vigorously to make it so. In the Funeral Speech, Pericles highlights the estimate of foundation and dominating part control government. He passes on that
Unfortunately, Pericles could not foresee that overcrowded city during summer months would become an easy target to a sudden pandemic of plague, which broke out in Athens and took the lives of about thirty thousand people – one third of the Athenian population, including Pericles himself, as well as “…four thousand four hundred hoplites in the ranks died of it and three hundred cavalry” (3.87.3. P.202). However his genius was able to predict everything else: “He told them to wait quietly, to pay
the spread of democracy to other Greek cities in the dawn of the 4th and 5th centuries? This question seems absurd to most people today, even if they don’t posses an extensive knowledge about the empire. After all, the great majority of personal accounts of Greece in that period allege that the Athenian empire was the first to promote the establishment of democracy. When the word “democracy” is mentioned, we automatically think of Athens as the leader of the diffusion of democracy throughout Europe
Robbie de Mello e Souza 8/17/14 Summer Assignment Overall Chapter Questions: 1. Pericles said, unlike other nations, we Athenians do not call a man who takes no part in public life quiet or unambitious; we call such a man useless.” How would Pericles evaluate the behavior of citizens who fail to vote in elections today? a. I think that Pericles would find those citizens useless because of the fact that they don’t vote. On the other hand, those citizens could be doing other activities in public life
The Athenians in ancient Greece have always been known as being a powerful people with exemplary moral and legal codes that have been used as a model for later governments. However, in Pericles’ Funeral Oration, he expounds on how the Athenian mentality and way of life is superior to all of the others due to the values that they deem as important in their society. According to Pericles, the Athenians consider themselves to be an intellectual people that treat others in a just manner while preserving
Athenian citizens had very important roles to play in their society. Athenian society was patriarchal. This meant that men had the higher roles and they had more responsibilities to undertake. Citizens were the only people who could speak or serve in a jury in court and they played a key role in the military. The Athenian society had lots of duties for its citizens to be a part of and these duties are what kept the society running. Athenians had to meet several requirements in order to be granted