differences of Sparta and Athens in Ancient Greece?
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Sparta (Σπάρτη) was a city in ancient Greece, whose territory included, in Classical times, all Laconia and Messenia, and which was the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. It is also the name of a modern town some kilometres away from the ancient site. (Technically, Sparta was the name of the ancient town; Lacedaemon, Greek Λακεδαιμων, was the city-state. Sparta is now normally used for both.)\n\nThe city of Sparta lies at the northern end of the central Laconian plain, on the right bank of the river Eurotas. The site was strategically located; guarded from three sides by mountains and controlling the routes by which invading armies could penetrate Laconia and the southern Peloponnesus via the Langhda Pass over Mt Taygetus. At the same time, its distance from the sea—Sparta is 27 miles from its seaport, Gythium—made it difficult to blockade.\n\nAthens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína (IPA: /a'θina/)) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world, named after goddess Athena. Modern Athens is a bustling cosmopolitan metropolis, home to some 3.7 million people. The Athens metropolitan area is currently growing both northwards and eastwards across Attica and it constitutes the dominant center of economic, financial, industrial, cultural and political life in Greece today. The city is also rapidly becoming a leading business centre in Europe. Athens is located at 38°00′N 23°43′E.\n\nAncient Athens was a powerful city-state and and a renowned center of learning, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is considered to have been the cradle of Western civilisation, largely due to the immense impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 4th and 5th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European Continent. The heritage of the Athenian Enlightenment is still evident in the city, portrayed through a number of spectacular ancient monuments and artworks, the most famous of all being the Parthenon on the Acropolis ("high city"), nurtured by Ictinus, Callicrates and Phidias. The latter is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Classical Greek architecture, still standing as an epic legacy to the West and indeed to the rest of the world. Many of these cultural landmarks were renovated ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games.
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Their loyalty. The ideology of the Spartans was that the state came first. Each individual Spartan lived and died for the state. Their lives were designed to serve the state to the age of sixty.
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The earliest on record go back to Greece in the Hellenic period------approx. 500 B.C. All Greek citizens were able to vote. Citizenship was held by free males who held property.
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YES!  All the time.  Rome was made up of many states that didn't always get along.  Sparta rose up for the love of a woman... ect. ect.\n\nI don't know what you mean by 'how did they live' but there were deffinitely political struggles and mini-wars.
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I think that was before Alexander.  So if it even existed, Greece was probably a Monarchy... I think...
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if u are doing something about Greece, then why u don't try to see the paralell between the ancient olympics and the modern ones.  Here is the games from ancient Greece that are still being practiced now:\nAncient ones\nBoxing \nEquestrian events \nChariot racing \nRiding\nPankration \nPentathlon \nDiscus= disk\nJavelin \nJump \nRunning \nWrestling\nRunning \nWrestling\n\nModern ones:\nSummer sports:\n\nAquatics\nArchery\nAthletics\nBadminton\nBaseball\nBasketball\nBoxing\nCanoe / kayak\nCycling\nEquestrian\n   Fencing\nFootball\nGymnastics\nHandball\nHockey\nJudo\nModern Pentathlon\nRowing\nSailing\n   Shooting\nSoftball\nTable Tennis\nTaekwondo\nTennis\nTriathlon\nVolleyball\nWeightlifting\nWrestling
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The Athenian fifth century known as Golden Age, was mainly concentrated on the period of Pericles. The Athenian statesman, who dominated the political scene for forty years, is associated with the cultural activity that produced the great buildings on the Acropolis Hill. \nFind more imfo in site below
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Macedonian.\nThank you Mike, but Hellenic people called ancient Macedonians with the name Barbarians (prepared to all who was not Hellenic).The north of today's Greece is called Macedonia 20-30 years ago, not before.Why?\nBy the way, have you ever been to "that" named FYROM.Everyone who lives there will say you it is Macedonia and people there have no another name but Macedonians.It was not putted just in occasion, but centuries ago.All towns and villages in North of today's Greece have also macedonian names. How is it possible? \nHowever, not to be angry to Greece, without macedonian part it'll only be Athens, (Sparta,Mikena,Crete...)etc.\nPlease, visit Macedonia, even you really think it's truth name is FYROM
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It was the form of rule in Sparta, where there were two hereditary kings. In Athens, it was mainly because of the extremely bad management by the Pisistratid tyrants. They ran things so poorly, and people mainly attributed this to their sole rule, so they decided to never let it happen again.
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The first Olympics were held in ancient Greece around 700 B.C. If you mean the first modern Olympics, they started in 1896 in Athens.
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Ancient Greece offers us a wealth in all the areas you listed. Their dramas are still pertinent to this day ie the conflict of divided loyalties as presented in Sophocles "Antigone". We can learn much about human nature by exploring the mythology created by the Greeks as they sought to explain humans and their existence. They produced beautiful as well as utilitarian structures that celebrated life. They became a spring board for the developing mythologies of the East as they endeavored to portray deities as more accessible and supportive.
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Time to reread the chapters in your text that cover this item.  You may have to get in touch with the Greek community to get specifics but I guess from the question that you are in Canada and will recognize the differences once you know about Greece.\n\nI apologize if it's the other way around.
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An excellent movie! Although I have seen the movie several times and am taking a class regarding the Greeks and Romans, I cannot recall any particular historical difference. You could try imdb.com
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Ancient Greece \nHistory of Greece series\n \nAegean Civilization before 1600 BC \nMycenaean Greece ca. 1600–1200 BC \nGreek Dark Ages ca. 1200–800 BC \nAncient Greece 776–323 BC \nHellenistic Greece 323 BC–146 BC \nRoman Greece 146 BC–330 AD \nByzantine Empire 330 AD–1453 AD \nOttoman Greece 1453–1832 \nModern Greece after 1832 \nTopics \nGreek language Greek literature \nMilitary history Names of the Greeks \nAncient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula of modern Greece, but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled in ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Turkey (then known as Ionia), Sicily and southern Italy (known as Magna Graecia), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.\n\nThere are no fixed or universally agreed upon dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Greek period. In common usage it refers to all Greek history before the Roman Empire, but historians use the term more precisely. Some writers include the periods of the Greek-speaking Mycenaean civilization that collapsed about 1100 BC, though most would argue that the influential Minoan was so different from later Greek cultures that it should be classed separately.\n\nIn the modern Greek school-books, "ancient times" is a period of about 1000 years (from the catastrophe of Mycenae until the conquest of the country by the Romans) that is divided in four periods, based on styles of art as much as culture and politics. The historical line starts with Greek Dark Ages (1100–800 BC). In this period artists use geometrical schemes such as squares, circles, lines to decorate amphoras and other pottery. The archaic period (800–500 BC) represents those years when the artists made larger free-standing sculptures in stiff, hieratic poses with the dreamlike "archaic smile". In the classical years (500–323 BC) artists perfected the style that since has been taken as exemplary: "classical", such as the (Parthenon). In the Hellenistic years that followed the conquests of Alexander (323–146 BC), also known as Alexandrian, aspects of Hellenic civilization expanded to Egypt and Bactria.\n\nTraditionally, the Ancient Greek period was taken to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC, but many historians now extend the term back to about 1000 BC. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC (The following period is classed Hellenistic) or the integration of Greece into the Roman Republic in 146 BC.\n\nThese dates are historians' conventions and some writers treat the Ancient Greek civilization as a continuum running until the advent of Christianity in the 3rd century.\n\nAncient Greece is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of Western Civilization. Greek culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of Europe. Ancient Greek civilization has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the Renaissance in Western Europe and again during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and The Americas.\n\n\nOrigins\nThe Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, the last being the Dorian invasion. The period from 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer. The period from 1100 BC to the 8th century BC is a "dark age" from which no primary texts survive, and only scant archaeological evidenc
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I'm just guessing that you have some sort of book that would answer these things for you, if you take the time to browse through it.....if you need more help, though, here are some decent websites:\n\nhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7849/\nhttp://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac44\nhttp://www.sikyon.com/Sparta/history_eg.html\nhttp://www.livius.org/pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t11.html\nhttp://monolith.dnsalias.org/~marsares/warfare/history/phalanx.html
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There is no comparison between the two areas, since their philosophy is different! The Asians are polytheistic while the USA are mainly Monotheistic (the god of Abraham is only accepted)!\nAlso, democracy, a creation of the classical Greeks was spread in the west but not in the East!
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The Greeks themselves didn't exist as a nation, at least not as we know it, but rather as a group of mostly unfriendly city-states in that region, centered around different places at different times.  The earliest "greek" civilization centered first in the Cyclades and then Crete.  After that it moved to the mainland and Mycenaea (the time of the Greek legends) and then on to various others, culminating in the rise of Macedonia and its young king Alexander the Great.\n\nSee link below: