the area of Greece. Two of the major poleis were Athens and Sparta. These two poleis were very separate from one another. Athens being on the main portion of the peninsula in the region of Attica and Sparta being on the Peloponnesus just of the edge of the peninsula in a region called Laconia (Dutton 57). Athens was much more social than Sparta. Since Athens was very near the Aegean Sea, it made it much easier for them to trade with outsiders. Sparta on the other hand was landlocked making it difficult
Imagine its 406 BCE and you are in Greece. Athens and Sparta are equal distances from you. Which city would you pick? Of course, this depends on who you are; if you are a woman Sparta would be the place for you. People want to learn how to survive, would also pick Sparta. Sparta beats Athens in most aspects. Their treatment of women/ slaves and education was much more desirable, than Athens, as was their education. Overall, Sparta was a much more suitable place to live in ancient times. Women
Athens was the front- and- center city-state of Greece. Sparta was named the guardians of Greece for their military. People fight over who is better, Sparta or Athens? What choice will you make? Now when I say, front-and-center, I mean that Athens was the most powerful city state in Greece. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they were better than Sparta. When you think of Greece, you think of Sparta and Athens. Why do our minds go straight to these powerful city-states of Greece? Well, these
Athens and Sparta were two powerful poleis that dominated the Greek World during the Classical Age. Even though they are close together geographically, the two poleis couldn not be further apart socially, politically, and economically. Occasionally, their similarities united them, at other times it tore them apart. Socially, politically, and economically, Sparta and Athens disagreed on much, however on other issues they sometimes saw eye to eye. While Athens and Sparta differed extensively, they
Ancient Greece with all of its greatness and splendor had numerous polis or city-states; to be precise, 1500 separate poleis or cities. The most recognized and popular among the city-states being Athens and Sparta. Each of these city-states was governed as autonomous countries even though they were nothing more than a small district. With so many city-states, comes the burden of governance. In this paper, we explore how each of the polis structured its government. We further discuss which city-states operated
The Sicilian Expedition, better known as the Sicilian Disaster, took place during 415 - 413 BCE. It was an Athenian expedition and its goal was to conquer Sicily. The Sicilian Expedition was part of a large war against the Spartans which was the Peloponnesian War. Though the Athenians thought that conquering Sicily was going to be an easy task, even though it would have led to control of its grains and routes for trade, they were horribly wrong. It would have been a success if they had more knowledge
Storm Of Steel Essay Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger is a WWI book from the perspective of a German soldier fighting in the trenches on the front line. The book is a chronicle of Junger’s own experiences and thoughts from the war. I thought that the book was very good at exploring how easy one could go from being alive and fighting to dead, just another casualty of war, in an instance. Junger himself escaped certain death numerous times by pure luck, recounting one of his memories from the battlefield
migrations and invasions of nomadic peoples coming out of central Asia. During the sixth century B.C.E., rulers of the province of Persia in southwestern Iran set about on a series of conquests that resulted in the formation of an enormous empire. For more than a millennium, four ruling dynasties—the Achaemenids (558-330 B.C.E), the Seleucids (323-83 B.C.E), the Parthians (247 B.C.E.-224 C.E.), and the Sasanids (224-651 C.E.)—maintained a continuous tradition of