Brasidas Essays

The Greek civilization University of the People HIST 1421: GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION The Greek civilization was an exciting period and also today people talk about it. There are many examples and references are taken from their way of life and traditions. The two instance of Greece cities is Athens and Sparta which both are renowned cities for their political systems. However, in this essay, the author will discuss the life if Athenians and Spartans, moreover, we discuss

the political leaders of Athens and Sparta had opposing views on how to approach a particular situation, which suggests that the two powerhouses of Greece were not diametrically opposed. During the Peloponnesian War, people like the Spartan leader Brasidas saw the most success because of their ability to unite Athenian and Spartan characteristics on the battlefield. Brasidas’s emphasis on promoting

The cult paid to the dead or living kings by the cities, in order to win their (or their successors’) concrete favour or to show gratitude after gaining it. There are multiple ways of defining exactly what the term ruler cult meant in Macedonia. One of the methods of this differentiation is between civic and royal ruler cults. A ‘civic ruler cult’ that which is recognised by cities within the rule of a king and is usually voluntary, and ‘royal ruler cult,’ that which is promoted or set up by the

After the Greco-Persian wars that resulted in a triumphant win for the Greeks, the city-states of Athens and Sparta struggled for dominance. As a result, a lengthy conflict between them and their allies consumed the Greek world for about three decades with the eventual surrender of Athens in 404 B.C.E. The detailed events of this conflict were captured in Thucydides masterpiece the History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides not only lived during that era but he was an active participant in the

The Peloponnesian War was the longest war in Greek history. The rivalry between Athens and Sparta was bound to lead to the Great War it came to be. Both sides were left a disaster. Athens was the highly favored out of the two. Athenians had an immense level of power of Greece and the region of the Mediterranean for fifty years before the war begin. According to Thucydides, Athens became the ultimate empire having power as the leader of the Delian League. (Hunt, Pg.100) Athens was superior and had

Thucydides introduction of Brasidas’ shows his bias against the other aggressor of the war, the Spartans. Before he speaks Thucydides makes the jab at him that he is “a powerful speaker, for a Lacedaemonian” (Thucydides p. 97). Thucydides remained consistent in his bias against democracies

very similar; this credits his ability to record things in an objective and scientific way. (Gomme 1930) However, one cannot ignore that Thucydides was a general in the Athenian military and, “with the failure to prevent the capture of Amphipolis by Brasidas led to his being an exile from his home for twenty years.” During his exile, he wrote the History of the Polypanesian War, there is evidence that suggests that his exile was not voluntary. (Gomme 1930) If Thucydides was exiled by force, one can