Thebes, Greece

slaves they owned since the poor could not afford slaves. Thus, it seems that these great civilizations lived different from one another. Despite their differences in lifestyles, one comparable attribute of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt would be their religion. Both civilizations practiced a polytheistic religion which meant they believed in more than one god. Ancient Egypt was ruled by pharaohs. Pharaohs were the highest level in the Egyptian society and were considered close to the gods.…

rivers with the mountains separating the entire the land mass into areas with little escape and travel routes. Greece was different than the other european lands around it because of the rocky structure and the people needed to be stronger to survive in the hardships that came with the land versus the fertile lands and rivers in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and other land masses surrounding Greece allowed the people of those lands much more laid back style of living. The mountains made it much…

Herodotus in the The Histories Book V, claims,“There is nothing in the whole world so unjust, nothing so bloody, as a tyranny” Greece, in 500 BC was under the rule of one such tyrant, Pisistratus. In order to stay in power, tyrants of ancient Greece created a prosperous society which would please its citizens. Tyrants created a prosperous society by establishing worldly order, redistributing power to the middle class and creating a unified society. To start, tyrants in Athens created relations…

Community of Great Minds The polis in early Greece meant city, but it’s an imperative distinction to recognize that it eventually came to describe not only the geographic region but the entire body of citizens. The polis represented a political entity ruled by its body of citizens. In theory, all native male citizens had equal political rights amongst the polis based on their ownership of property. “The ancient Greeks didn't refer to Athens, Sparta or Thebes... Instead they spoke of the…

which was the powerful city state at the time. This civilization appeared during the late Bronze Age, were it started on the mainland under Cretan influence. Established cities of Pylos, Thebes, Athens, and Tiryns. They were seafaring people which meant they lived near the sea. One thing that they benefited to Greece was their art and culture. But what stood out the most, was their art of naturally forming flowing designs on pottery, fresco, and jewelry which was admired by their own people and…

The Corinth War appears as one of the first conflicts that would further drive Sparta away from other members of Greece. Sparta and the Peloponnesian League faced Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos. Due to Athenian successes the Persians feared they would once again become too powerful so they pulled away and gave aid to the Spartans. This abrupt switch led to the King’s Peace in 387/6, which…

history in areas near water with fertile land to grow crops. We first see Egyptians settling in the Nile River Valley as early as the 6th millennium BCE. This land was immensely fertile due to the very predictable flooding of the Nile (McGuire). Even in Greece where there were immense physical land barriers such as the Balkan Mountains, we see the most…

The Rising and Falling of the Greece Nowadays, people believed that Greek shaped the original culture of the Western civilization. It is also a junction for the Eastern and Western civilization. There are three significant periods of the Greeks: the Hellenic periods (2000-338 B.C.E), the Hellenistic period (336-323 B.C.E), and the period of the conquest by Roman (200-146 B.C.E).[ Page 54] During the periods, the people of Greece had the remarkable contribution on many careers, such as Science,…

Political Anatomy of Athens (Apr., 2007), Josephine Crawley Quinn looks at both sculpture types, Herms and Kouroi, relationship between them, roles of representations of male body in promoting and reinforcing the political ideals, democracy, in archaic Greece (Quinn, p. 83). The sculptures with different types and styles signified the different culture and political ideas of the certain region in that era. The article further discuss on connection between the herms and fifth-century Democratic…

city-states; each polis is unique from the rest as evidenced by Sparta and Athens. Sparta represented war, while Athens represented arts and democracy. Each poleis acted as states and were independent, had their own government, and trade system. Throughout Greece there were about a thousand poleis, but only a few are mentioned throughout history. The most…