How did Pericles glorify Athens?
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he increased the number of paid public officials and paid jurors, so poorer people could participate in government and not have to worry about missing a day of work. athens evolved into a direct democracy with the larger participation.
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Note: These characters did not exist in the odyssey by Homer but in the Illiad.  My memory of the movie is a little faded, but I believe this is what you are referring to...\n\nArgument = Who is the fairest of the three goddesses?\n\nHera: Zeus' wife and the mother of Ares and Hephaistus. Hera supports the Greeks in the Iliad, since Paris did not choose her as the fairest goddess. \n\nAthena: The daughter of Zeus, Athena had no mother but rather sprang (fully armed) from Zeus' head. Athena supports the Greeks in the Iliad because she was not chosen by Paris as the fairest goddess.\n\nAphrodite: The daughter of Zeus, Aphrodite was born from the ocean's foam. She is the goddess of love and beauty. Paris chose her has the fairest of the three goddesses. She in turn gave Helen to Paris and (obviously) supports the Trojans in the Iliad.
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The work on Parthenon started in 447 BC.  Work on the temple continued until 432 BC.  The Parthenon is a Doric peripteral temple, which means that it consists of a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side, and a colonnade (8 x 17) of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure. Each entrance has an additional six columns in front of it. The larger of the two interior rooms, the naos, housed the cult statue. The smaller room (the opisthodomos) was used as a treasury.\n\nSome historians believe that Athens concluded a peace treaty with Persia in 449, two years before work began on the Parthenon. The significance of this would be that the Delian League/Athenian Empire continued to exist, even after the reason for its existence (a mutual defense league against the Persians) had ceased to be valid. In other words it was now openly acknowledged that Athens was not just the head of the Greek defense league but actually an imperial master over other Greek states. The decision by the Athenians in 454 BC to move the League treasury from the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delos to the Athenian acropolis points in the same direction. Because the Parthenon was built with League funds, the building may be read as an expression of the confidence of the Athenians in this newly naked imperialism.
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It is about the Trojan war, and it is called 'Iliad' because it means 'the story of Troy'. It was written by Homer, a Greek, and takes place in about 1255BC. Queen Helen of Sparta, married to King Menelaus, is the most beautiful women in the world. She is (there is controversy about this part) stolen from Sparta by Paris, a prince of Troy. Some think that she went willingly, some don't. But the Iliad doesn't cover that part. It leaps right into the war, because of course Menelaus wants her back! He asks his brother, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, to help him. The war last 10 years, and the Greeks win, thanks to Odysseus, a Greek soldier. The sequel is The Odyssey, also by Homer, and it is the story of Odysseus, who sails for 20 years, trying to get home, and his adventures. His wife, Penelope, refuses to believe he is dead.\nA good 'kid story' of the Iliad is Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (not the complete story) and a good kid story of the Odyssey is Waiting for Odysseus by Clemence McLaren.
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The poem 'Endymion',which begins with the marvellous phrase"a thing of beauty is a joy for ever" is a free treatment of the Greek myth of Endymion, a chieftain king, and his passion for the Moon Goddess Cynthia.\nThe central idea is the quest for ideal beauty:how the poet longs for full communion with the essential spirit of beauty and how through the exercise of active human sympaties he achieves his quest.
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The 'Shield of Achilles' depicts the entirety of the Homeric world, but more importantly, the City at War and the City at Peace.\n\nThese representations also relate to Achilles' two differing fates described by his immortal mother: Leave the Trojan siege and lead a long, but uneventful life in the City at Peace or stay at Troy (City at War), acquiring glory, honor, and immortality(warrior ethos), but dying shortly thereafter on the battlefield.\n\nPatroklos' death was the catalyst in which Achilles' divine-like rage overwhelmed all considerations of the mortal world including the heroic ethos. Achilles' desire for revenge could only lead him to the City at War.
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Medusa turned people into stone.\n\nBTW, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, not stone.
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Mainly from "tribute" -- taxes.  The cities they took from the Persians paid annual tribute to Athens, greatly enriching the city.  The Athenian Greeks also used the conquered areas as colonies, giving land grants to Greek citizens in the conquered areas, as there was little land left in Attica (where Athens is) that wasn't already owned.\nThe tribute was in the form of grain, precious metals, and work products (leather, pottery, etc.) which Athens usually traded (except for the grain) to further enrich the city.
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Basic Story:\nSome say there are two Eroses, the elder who is the early god, and the other who is the eternally young son of Aphrodite. The "elder" Eros was the cause of the birth of the race of immortal gods and goddesses. The "younger" Eros is the one depicted as a winged boy, the son of Aphrodite, considered to be both the most beautiful and the youngest of the gods. \nBut even in this form, kids grown up. Problems ensue when Eros (called Cupid in this story) falls in love with Psyche. His radiance is such that for her own safety, he insists that she must never look upon his face, and he only visits her at night. At first, she's cool with this, but her sisters and family insist that her husband must be a grotesque and dangerous monster. Finally, to shut them up, one night she lights a lamp and sees his glorious beauty, which doesn't blast her but does make her tremble so hard she shakes the lamp. A few drops of hot oil dribble on her beloved, burning him, and he flies away from her in physical pain compounded by the pain of knowing she doubted him. \nHis mom, Aphrodite, is angry over the injury and over the concealed relationship. While Cupid recovers, Aphrodite hopes to get Psyche out of the way permanently by making life extraordinarily difficult for her daughter-in-law. This takes the form of various potentially deadly tasks such as dropping by to get some beauty lotion from Persephone in the Underworld, and, while you're out, Psyche, could you pick up some bottled water from the River of the Dead (the Styx)? \nBut Cupid eventually recovers, comes to her rescue, and they marry. As is appropriate, the God of Love gets a happy-ever-after. \nSome Major Temple Sites:\nHe had a sanctuary on Mount Helion
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Ancient Greece--specifically Athens
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(The river god, Alphaeus, pursued the nymph Arethusa; she begged the goddess Artemis for help and was turned into a fountain which flowed to Suracuse under the sea ; the two waters, River-Alphaeus and Fountain-Arethusa, rose in Ortygia where they mixed.\n\nARETHUSA\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOne of the nymphs of the fountains, who attracted the ardor of Alpheios, the river god, who pursued her with such persistence that she had to turn to Artemis, who caused the stream that Arethusa represented to flow underground, thus eluding the river god.
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It was Cyrus the Great\nKing of Kings\nKing of the Persian Empire, the capital of which is the magnificent Persepolis in Iran.\nSee the following links if interested.\n\nFor more info and a translation of Cyrus's Cylinder (first charter of human rights), see : http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/Cyrus-the-great/cyrus_cylinder.htm\n\nFor a 40-minute film on Persepolis (very nice), take a look at : http://www.iraninfo.dk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=2
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Offically, apparently not. All I could find was this:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8458/joe.html
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1. Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns\ndriven time and again off course, once he had plundered\nthe hallowed heights of Troy.\nMany cities of men he saw and learned their minds,\nmany pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,\nfighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.\nBut he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove—\nthe recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,\nthe blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun\nand the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.\nLaunch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus,\nstart from where you will—sing for our time too.\n\n\nmeaning:With these words the Odyssey begins. The poet asks for inspiration from the Muse and imagines her singing through him. An ancient epic poem states at the outset, in capsule form, the subject of the work to follow, and this epic is no exception. The Odyssey announces its subject matter in a different fashion from the Iliad. Whereas Homer’s first epic treats Achilles’ rage, this one focuses on a “man of twists and turns.” It chronicles not battles, the stuff of Achilles’ brief life, but a long journey through “[m]any cities” and “many pains,” the kind of test worthy of a resourceful hero like Odysseus. The opening lines foreshadow how the epic will end—with all of Odysseus’s men dead except Odysseus himself—and provide a reason for these deaths: the recklessness and blindness of his crew , who do not realize that by slaughtering the Sun’s cattle they seal their own dooms. The opening leaves unmentioned many other temptations the Achaeans will face and says nothing of the situation in Ithaca, which consumes nearly half the epic. It treats the subject matter of the epic in an abbreviated form but captures the themes those subjects will explore. As Knox notes in the introduction to the Fagles translation, in the Odyssey, in contrast to the Iliad, the Muse is asked to choose where to begin. Giving the Muse this freedom prepares us for the more complex narrative structure of the Odyssey, which relies on flashbacks as it moves through the many settings of the hero’s ten-year journey.\n\n\n2.Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,\nour mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.\nSo long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,\nhe thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.\nBut then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,\nbear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.\nOur lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,\nturn as the days turn . . .\n\nmeaning-Odysseus utters these words to the suitor Amphinomus shortly after defeating the “Beggar-King” Irus in Book 18 (18.150–157). Odysseus is himself in disguise as beggar, and his words here help maintain that cover. According to the story he has told, he once was a great warrior, plundering faraway lands, until one day he was captured. On one level, his words here reinforce those lies. The fatalism and helplessness he expresses—that a man only prospers while “the gods grant him power”—were frequently expressed sentiments of the Ancient Greek outlook, but they seem especially natural coming from a onetime king who has descended to the status of a beggar. Who better to comment on life’s reversals than someone who has experienced them firsthand?\nThe words have additional meaning, however, for both Amphinomus and Odysseus. For Amphinomus, they foreshadow death. He is plundering the land of others, living a careless life, much as the beggar once did, but he too is a feeble man, and he is destined for a fall. The words are a prophecy to Amphinomus, and a warning; he does not miss their meaning, as he walks away “fraught with grave forebodings” (18.176). For Odysseus, on the other hand, the words do not foretell the future but recount the past and, perhaps, explain the lesson it has taught him. At the hour of his greatest triumph, the beginn
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Did you mean Zeus? If so it would appear his host city was Oylmpia, Greece.\n\nOlympia is an ancient city in Greece which was the site of the Ancient Olympic Games. \nThe Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held
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What a question! (I hope you'll care to tell us why you asked it?) First and foremost Aristophanes, the author of Lysistrate, is against war (or at least the Peloponnese War); Herodotus is in favour of (the Persian) wars; and Thucydides does his very best to remain neutral on the justification of (the Peloponnese) war. Second, Lysistrate is a comedy; Herotodus' works are basically a cronicle; Thucudides "History of the Peloponnese War" is one of the first attempts at real contemporary history. \n\nThird, there's the purpose of the writers. Aristophanes was a conservative Athenian who was probably pro-Sparta and intensely annoyed at this continued civil war between Athens and Sparta and their acolytes. He used Lystistrate to crack the whip over the war mongers and ridicule them for many of their, as he saw it, degenerate ways. Herodotus was apparently a deeply religious man, marked by the belief in Hubris (provoking the wrath of the Gods by getting above one's station in life) of his contemporary Greece. He used his works to show how the Persians - in attacking the Greeks and in their prior undertakings - were guilty of great Hubris and were justly punished. Thucydides was an upper-class Athenian in tune with the mainstream of his town, who was however exiled (the Athenian process of "Ostrachism" by which you could induce excessively powerful people to leave for a period of 10 years) during the Peloponnese wars. His work is sympathetic to his fellow Athenians in the early phases of the war when they were still a disciplined force; then gets increasingly critical as the Athenian conduct of the war gets more and more hysterical and erratic. \n\nFourth, what are the basic attitudes of the three works? Well, Lysistrate says "war is just too ridiculous". Herodotus says "war is necessary to fulfill the will of the gods". Thucydides says "stuff happens".
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Peripheries and Prefectures\nMain article: Peripheries of Greece, Prefectures of Greece\n\n \nGreek peripheries and prefectures.Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as peripheries, which subdivide further into the 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos). For more detailed maps of the peripheries and/or prefectures, see the Peripheries of Greece page or Prefectures of Greece page.\n\nBeyond these one autonomous region exists: Mount Athos (Agio Oros - Holy Mountain), a monastic state under Greek sovereignty.\n\nThe 51 nomoi subdivide into 147 eparchies (singular eparchia), which contain 1,033 municipalities and communities: 900 urban municipalities (demoi) and 133 rural communities (koinotetes). Before 1999, Greece's local government structure featured 5,775 local authorities: 457 demoi and 5,318 koinotetes, subdivided into 12,817 localities (oikismoi).\n\n[edit]\nGeography\n \nMap of Greece \nGreece from orbitMain article: Geography of Greece \nGreece consists of a large mainland at the southern end of the Balkans; the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth); and numerous islands (around 3,000), including Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Euboea and the Dodecanese and the Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands. Greece has more than 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) of coastline and a land boundary of 1,160 kilometres (721 mi). Approximately 8% of the nation's territory is covered by forests.\n\nFour fifths of Greece consist of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most montainous in Europe. Western Greece contains a number of lakes and wetlands and it is dominated by the Pindus mountain range. Pindus has a maximum elevation of 2,636 metres (8,648 ft) and it is essentially a prolongation of the Dinaric Alps. The range continues through western Peloponnese, crosses the islands of Kythera and Antikythera and find its way into southwestern Aegean, in the island of Crete where it eventually ends. (Actually the islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that once consisted an extension of the mainland). Pindus is characterized by its high, steep peaks, often dissected by numerous canyons and a variety of other karstic landscapes. Most notably, the impressive Meteora formation consisting of high, steep boulders provides a breathtaking experience for the hundrends of thousands of tourists who visit the area each year. Special lifts transfer visitors to the scenic monasteries that lye on top of those rocks. Meteora are situated in the Trikala prefecture. The Vikos-Aoos Gorge is yet another spectacular formation and it is the second largest canyon on Earth, second only to the Grand Canyon. The Vicos-Aoos Gorge is a popular hotspot for those in fond of extreme sports.\n\nMount Olympus is the tallest mountain in the country, located in the northern Pieria prefecture, near Thessaloniki. Mytikas in Olympus range has a height of 2,919 metres (9,570 ft) at its tallest peak. Once considered the throne of the Gods, it is today extremely popular among hikers and climbers who deem its height as a challenge. Moreover, northeastern Greece features yet another high altitude mountain range, the Rhodope range, spreading across the prefectures of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace; this area is covered with vast, thick, ancient forests including the famous Dadia.\n\nExpansive plains are primarily located in the prefectures of Thessaly, Central Macedonia and Thrace. They constitute key economic regions as they are among the few arable places in the country. Volos and Larissa are the two largest cities of Thessaly.\n\nGreece's climate consists of three types that influence well defined regions of its territory. Those are the Mediterranean, the Alpine and the Temperate types. The first one features mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. The Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, Eastern Peloponessus and parts of the Sterea Ellada refion are mostly affecte