Essays Tagged: "Peloponnesian War"
Greek Philosophy.
he time of great internal and external disturbances in the Greek society, as it was right after the Peloponnesian war. The pre-Socratic era of Greek Philosophy came to an end when the Sophists turned ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
A chapter-to-chapter study summary of Aristophanes' Greek comedy "Lysistrata", exploring the aspects of the 'Tragic Cycle'
strataPrologueLysistrata is concerned about the present situation in Athens, where she believes the Peloponnesian war has been continuing for far too long. The audience learns through the first scene ... ould return to what it always has been in peace.The play seems to hoping not just for an end to the Peloponnesian War, but to the proverbial war between the sexes.ExodusThe combined choruses extend in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
A brief overview of Greek Philosophy: Socrates
History. The growing power of Athens had frightened other Greek states for years before the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431. During the war, Pericles died in the plague of Athens (429); for ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
The Life, Works, Theories, and Analysis of Plato
erictione decided to remarry an associate of the statesman Pericles, Pyrilampes.Plato fought in the Peloponnesian war from around 409-404 BC, but did not want a military career(O'Connor:1). Instead, h ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Aristophanes and Lysistrata
Aristophanes was a "craft" comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes' usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. ... rata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War.To make the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the Acropolis, where Ath ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Athen's Rise To Power 478 - 445 BC
th Athens than to oppose her. This period of Athenian supremacy was between the Persian War and the Peloponnesian War, when Athens grew in strength as leader of the Delian League and used that positio ... to be expelled from the Council. Theimstocles realised that if those states were expelled then the Peloponnesian League would be the dominant power on the Council. In 472 Themistocles was ostracised, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Significance of Pericles' Death
The death of Pericles was a significant event in the course of the Peloponnesian War; however, even without Pericles' leadership the Athenian Assembly had countless op ... he Athenians sent major reinforcements to Sicily, and suffered a massive defeat at the hands of the Peloponnesians. This then left Athens exposed and substantially defenceless, remaining in this somew ... ic failure, not one key turning point, that resulted in the decisive defeat of the Athenians by the Peloponnesians, with the aid of Persia. Because of democratic fickleness, with or without Pericles t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Aristophanes' Lysistrata - Example of Comedy Play
Aristophanes' Lysistrata is read as a play. Based during the Peloponnesian War the plot is that the women will end the war on their own. The women, sick of the e ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Compose an essay discussing the Peloponnesian War and its significance in the study of politics. Why War?
. Then we can analyze some alternative theoretical outcomes compared to the actual conclusions. The Peloponnesian War provides an excellent example to be evaluated. The following gives a brief history ... s a brief history of the war, causes of the war, and the importance of its study.In the case of the Peloponnesian War, we have two equal but different powers in control of Greece and the surrounding a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Peloponnesian war By Danny McGinnis
Explanation of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war In 432 B.C. a fight between Corinth and Epidamnus broke out. Epidamnus was ... surrounding areas. These aggressive military actions by Athens were stepping stones leading to the Peloponnesian war. Corinth summoned a meeting of the Peloponnesian confederacy and demanded somethin ... anded something be done about the Athenian military threat. A war that would span for 27 years, the Peloponnesian war had begun. The Peloponnesian war, would be a war primarily fought between S ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Explanation of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
surrounding areas. These aggressive military actions by Athens were stepping stones leading to the Peloponnesian war. Corinth summoned a meeting of the Peloponnesian confederacy and demanded somethin ... thing be done about the Athenian military threat. A war that would span for twenty seven years, the Peloponnesian War had begun.The Peloponnesian War would be a war primarily fought between Spartan an ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Exploration notes: Plots and Sub-Plots of "Lysistrata".
Simply stated, the plot of "Lysistrata" depicts Athenian women who are fed up with the Peloponnesian War, so they barricade themselves in the Akropolis. They orchestrate a sex strike in o ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Socrates.
Researchers have said that Socrates was brought up as a sculptor which later he abandoned. When the Peloponnesian war broke out, Socrates went into active service and he earned high praises by the peo ... erthrew the Democracy. It was formed by a Spartan commander named Lysander after Sparta has won the Peloponnesian war. These thirty Tyrants were responsible for many judicial murders. They murdered we ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Aristophanes
to sour for the Athenians. The people were increasingly demoralized by the ongoing conflicts of the Peloponnesian War and the loss of their greatest hero, Pericles, had been taken from them and replac ...
Subjects: Art Essays
"The Iliad" and "Lysistrata"
a play by a playwright, Aristophanes. "Lysistrata" was written in Athens, in 411 B.C.E. during the Peloponnesian War. The play is a comedy, which conjures an unusual way to end the Peloponnesian War. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Most Influential Philosopher in History, Plato
around 428 B.C. and died around 347 B.C. Plato saw war service between 409 and 404 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War and he won a medal for bravery. After the war he had political ambitions, but he w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Pericles' background in Ancient History and his influence in Athens.
during his rule over Athens, which was also known as the city's Golden Age (Between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars).Pericles was a successful speaker, general and statesman, and a descendant of th ... ericles was such an influence on Athens that Thucydides (ancient Greek historian and author of "The Peloponnesian War") named him 'the first citizen of Athens,' and the period between 461BC and 429BC ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Athenian Imperialism and her Changing Relations with Allies
er the conclusion of the Persian Wars (492-479BC) with Athens being the true victor, and before the Peloponnesian War, a period of prosperity covered Athens, and they needed to devise new ways to prot ... p from Sparta to Athens, and Athens then said something which would have been a large cause for the Peloponnesian War which was to follow in 432BC; "We did not gain this empire by force. It came to us ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The First Modern Historian
in the war, for WWII we might think of Hitler, the Holocaust or Pearl Harbor. The uniqueness of the Peloponnesian War is that we only hear about it in relation to Thucydides, the man who wrote it as o ... t in relation to Thucydides, the man who wrote it as opposed to the participants. Thucydides is the Peloponnesian War (M. I. Finley, Intro to Thucydides, p. 9). The only other account is by Ephorus, a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Lysistrata:The Power Of Sex
14 September 2001 Lysistrata: The Power of Sex Aristophanes uses sexual comedy to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the play, Lysistrata. Lysistrata, the heroine, convin ... ke peace, we must do without sex" (Aristophanes 470). Lysistrata hopes to bring an end to the Peloponnesian War with her sly plan to force Athens and Sparta to come to peace with each other. Wha ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History