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Thucydides' Views of Sparta and Athens

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the ways in which Thucydides depicted Sparta and Athens in terms of their cultural and social sy...

The Peloponnesian War - A Conflict of Ideologies

This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...

Public & Private Interests/Peloponnesian War

aid and had been made a part of the defensive alliance formed by the Athenians. Since Corinth was allied with Sparta, the foundati...

The Peloponnesian War of Thucydides and Greek Culture

In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...

Overview of the Athenian Doctrine

In eight pages this paper examines the Athenian doctrine or thesis in a consideration of Athens' and Sparta's motivations and virt...

Peloponnesian War Defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.

turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...

Athens and the Mitylenian Debate

In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

Men and Women of Ancient Greece

For entertainment, men tended to engage in a variety of activities, mostly involving drinking, wrestling, horseback riding, and ga...

The Violation of Athenian Social Norms and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude that co...

Social and Political Development in Sparta and Athens

0198140851.html). Prior to Alexander the Greats comprehensive introduction of the concept of law, the Greeks followed no organiza...

Ancient Greece and Education

In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...

Cultural and Social Changes in Cities

This research report examines LA in particular but does look at general changes.A great deal of information is included in this re...

Ancient Greece Essays

In eight pages classical Greek civilization is examined in a series of brief independent essays that include astrology and the Gre...

Reasons for the 431 BC War Between Athens and Sparta

Why Sparta engaged in war with Athens during this time period is examined in a paper consisting of nine pages with the outcome of ...

An Analysis of Thucydides

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that in History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides regards the Athens defeat...

Thucydides and the Assembly of Athens

This 5 page paper is written as if it were a speech given by Thucydides to teh Athenian Asembly suggesting the action that should ...

Values of the Greco Roman Societies

In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

Astronomy and Greece

Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...

Political Philosophy of Greece and Athens

much as they are in todays society. Therefore, the philosophies and laws created chaos, but democracy was enjoyed as a fact of ex...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Thucydides' Peloponnesian War

In five pages this paper considers the text's structure and also discusses how the war is presented in terms of the primary themes...

Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War and the Melian Debate

In five pages this paper discusses the issue of the weak being subjugated by the strong that is presented in this ancient historic...

Why Thucydides, Marx, and Plato View Democracy as the Worst Form of Government

In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...