Texts in Context: Thirty Tyrants and One Nuisance
Socrates, though executed five years later, was arguably the last victim of the Thirty Tyrants.
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Socrates, though executed five years later, was arguably the last victim of the Thirty Tyrants.
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“Pride goeth before a fall”; and Athens had much to be proud of in 431 BC.
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Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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The preposterous victory of the Greeks over the Persians is, in a sense, the beginning of a self-consciously Western civilization.
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Now we enter upon the “storied” parts of ancient history. A word seems in order, then, about stories; and so do a couple of stories.
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Texts in Context:Timeline of the Early Iron Age By Gabriel Blanchard Several dates below are approximate and/or conjectural; some that are especially uncertain are noted with a question
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On the eve of the Persian invasion, let us look more closely at Athens and its opposite number, Sparta.
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Or rather, two cries. A revolution in intellectual culture was followed by a revolt, and that revolt was only a hint of the great drama soon to play out on the Hellene stage.
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Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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We pause for a moment, in our tracing of Western history, to glance at everybody else’s history.
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