Alexander, son of Phillip, was able to handle cultural differences between the people of the various cultures he conquered and his Greek subjects by means of propaganda disguised as respect. For example, to ensure that his Greek soldiers could be trusted further he freed Greek settlements across Asia Minor. Along the way, […]
The Polis, or city-state, according to Aristotle was needed to set the Greeks apart from barbarians. “The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole”. [1] Aristotle delivers […]
The Peloponnesian War was also called the great war between Sparta and Greek and was caused by Athens provoking Sparta on three different fronts, “the Corcyrean – Athenian treaty, the siege of Potidaea, and the Megarian decree…” (Nagle, 2014). After many years of fighting and with many losses the Peloponnesian War ended with Athens agreeing to […]
Originally published on June 25, 2017, by Misty Smith for HIS-321 Ancient World of Greece & Rome at Southern New Hampshire University. When ordinary individuals are asked about ancient history their thoughts normally turn to Greece, Rome, and the great versifiers Homer and Virgil. This can be attributed to media outlets using their tales to […]
Originally published on June 4, 2017, by Misty Smith for HIS-321 Ancient World of Greece & Rome at Southern New Hampshire University. For thousands of years, the Greeks had survived, although not as a totally united society, numerous wars, both internal and external. Many believed that the Greeks would never be fully conquered, or even fully unified. [1,2] Classical […]
