Persia and Greece. Persia was one of the largest empires in the ancient world. To expand eastward, Persia must defeat Greece. The armies of Greece were outnumbered better than two to one by the Persian army. I claim that the leadership of Themistocles was the only reason the Greeks defeated Persia at the battle of Salamis. Do not skip a line between paragraphs. Themistocles hailed from Athens, and he was a politician as well as a general . He realized that to defeat Persia, Greece need to unite
1. Wine differs from the use of beer in ancient Greece and Rome in that beer was for the common people. The common people were the farmers, merchants, and artists. Wine was the drink for “important people” (page). These important people were part of the wealthy class and government officials. Beer was also used as a bartering tool for tradesmen and was considered an important food source. Wine was used for social occasions and meetings in the government. This is important to know because we don’t
fundamentally different in ancient Greece and Rome. Many historical contexts show that ancient Greeks and Romans differentiated men and women by their behaviors and roles in the society instead of their physical traits. Traditional perception of gender at that time characterized women by their weakness and passivity while men were characterized as strong and active. Ovid conforms to the idea that sexual difference is not in the body, but it is a pattern of behaviors. Further,
One of the greatest military geniuses in history, Alexander the Great was born in 356 B.C. in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. The son of Philip of Macedon, who was an excellent Army General and organizer. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus. Alexander deserves the iconic position he has been given in history because he was able to conquer the Persian Empire due to his outstanding military techniques and his ability to integrate with the culture and government of the people he conquered
The book: The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece, written by Michael Curtis Ford, is about a slave named Theo who works for a well-known man in history named Xenophon. Xenophon: soldier, general, historian, and young philosopher was also a student of Socrates, who is a character in the story. When Theo was a child, a band of pirates captured him and his family while they were fishing off the coast of Syracuse, Theo's birthplace. Afterwards, Theo soon realized he would never see his family again
roles have been around for many decades. In the ancient Greek play, Antigone, the audience is faced with conflicts between equality and gender. The freedom of women in the play was very limited by rules and structures in the ancient world. Antigone’s gender played a great role in the story, and it has profound meaning to her actions. Regardless of the laws that were positioned by Creon, Antigone is resilient enough to believe in her own conscious to do what is right, but by being she is not taking seriously
supremacy of his works. Not many facts are known about Dante, but most information about him was found and pulled out from many of his famous works. Dante was a religious man. He wanted to show how the ancient stories can be brought into the Christian framework. He showed that the heroes of ancient times also committed sin of their own. Even if they had their own justice in how they acted in their story, there was always a fine line when it comes to sins. Dante showed that even the lowest kind of
path, however, heroes from Ancient Greece value name, or kleos which "guarantees meaning and value..." more than the modern heroes. Within the Odyssey, by Homer, many heroes, like Odysseus, a "charming, womanizing, conniving strategist", do not always have to walk the road of righteousness the modern heroes follow. In fact, people, now, expect heroes to do what's right almost a hundred percent of the time, if not, it will be like dishonoring themselves. However ancient Greeks values are within their
because this war brought all the city-states of Greece together to fight against the Persian. It was a logical choice to pick one of the Spartans as their leading commander of the army. Leonidas one of the two kings of the Spartans was chosen for that role. Thermopylae was the place that the Greeks decided to stand their ground against the enormous army of the Persians. Thermopylae is a small passage between the Aegean Sea and the high mountains of Greece. This location was chosen to distinguish the
Periodization Essay Through periodization, we can observe several continuities and more importantly, the dramatic changes between the ancient times (Paleolithic and Neolithic ages), and the classical era. Even though we have similarities between the two periods of time, there are many more differences that it can be referred to as a cataclysmic event as in history itself, has suffered much change throughout the centuries. It is imperative that we discern how we got to present time, by studying