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discovered in Mycenae in large graves resembling wells (so-called shaft graves) contained a large number of valuable objects (weapons, ornaments, gold masks, and so forth), attesting to the growing power of the Achaean dynasties as early as the middle of the 17th and the end of the 16th ...
And yet we will perhaps, at the end of our lives, still feel that the tasks were worth undertaking. Through them, we'll have achieved something deeper and more interesting than happiness. With the word Eudaimonia in mind, we can stop imagining that we are aiming for a pain-free existence...
The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. There was a general pattern of development, which varied somewhat in each particular instance. Monarchies yielded to aritocracies, which were in turn replaced by tyrannies. On the ...
4. What do we know about the Battle of Salamis? A. It ended with the Greeks’ victory. B. It put an end to the Persians’ invasion. C. It took place in the mainland of Greece. D. It forced the Persians to abandon their ships. ...
The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BCE and end in 404 BCE with the complete defeat of ! ___. a. Sparta b. Thebes c. Athens !d. Macedon !! Answer: c SHORT ANSWER 26. Explain the difference between the early Greek Archaic kouros figure and its Egyptian ! prototype. Answer: The early...
[#paragraph3]Second, this internationalism spelled the end of the classical Greek city-state—the unit of government in ancient Greece—and everything it stood for. Most city-states had been quite small in terms of citizenry, and this was considered to be a good thing. [#highlight4]The fo...
Ise-Shima’s traditions don’t just start and end with Ise-Jingu and the Ama. Late that night, after deciding against heading for the overwhelming light and din of Osaka, I sit back in an onsen at an old-style ryokan in the coastal town of Toba. Snow falls as I soak my ...
的钦慕;按照Life of Lycurgus这本著作的描述,Lycurgus设立了元老院,成员为28位元老加上2个国王,负责集体决策城邦重大事务;原则上元老院要把事务拿到民众大会做最后决定,但是后来有两个国王给决策程序加了这么个条款:"If the people should adopt a crooked measure, let the elders and leaders put an end to it...
The history of ancient Greek literature may be divided into three periods: Archaic (to the end of the 6th century bc); Classical (5th and 4th centuries bc); and Hellenistic and Greco-Roman (3rd century bc onward). Archaic period, to the end of the 6th century bc The Greeks created poet...