in love. The first time they met it was love a first sight (they met at the yearly festival of Adonis). Leander wants to marry Hero, but she tells him that her parents would never let her marry a guy from a foreign city (he is from Abydos) “On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood, In view and opposit two cities stood Seaborders….”(1-4). Even though people are against them being together they still fight for each other’s love “Love is not ful pittie (as men say) but deaffe and cruell, where
information on the Persian Wars. Herodotus’s work was primarily based on the conflicts between the Persians and Greeks. The primary source is on Xerxes the Persian king, who invaded Greece. The Persians began their invasion in 480 B.C.E, crossing the Hellespont, and maneuvering through Macedonia on their way to Greece. The primary source describes Xerxes as a leader, gives us insight into Spartan culture, the Greek values Herodotus seemed to promote and the significance of the Persian
The Persian War Introduction The Persian War is one of the most famous wars in history and was also known as the Greco - Persian Wars. “The Persian war was remarkable not only for its ferocious battles, which showcased the superiority of Greek military methods, but also for the striking personalities involved, the democratic character of the military command, and the ability of the fractious Greeks to drop their strong divisions and unite behind a single cause.” (Church A. 1). It started from 499
While Persian financial support undeniably contributed to the Spartan’s victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War, modern historians have over-emphasized the importance of that assistance to their eventual victory. Persian money allowed the Peloponnesian forces to stay in the fight, which had quickly dissolved into a war of attrition after the Athenian’s defeat at Syracuse. However, there were several negative aspects of the Persian/Peloponnesian alliance which detrimentally affected Sparta’s
Throughout the Iliad the warriors' dream of peace is projected over and over again in elaborate similes developed against a background of violence and death. Homer is able to balance the celebration of war's tragic, heroic values with scenes of battle and those creative values of civilized life that war destroys. The shield of Achilles symbolically represents the two poles of human condition, war and peace, with their corresponding aspects of human nature, the destructive and creative, which
In both Greek tragedy and in Herodotus are men who make mistakes through hubris and arrogance. In Herodotus, tyrants such as Xerxes, Cambyses, and Cyrus are driven by a sense of self-obsession and hubris. They have no qualms sacrificing their own people for power. Their only sense of duty is to themselves, and they show this through their despicable actions to others. The life of others is hardly of importance in the game of existence. Tragic heroes also suffer from hubris, but instead of being
HIs army crossed the Hellespont a narrow strait near the Aegean and Marmara sea where he met an enemy force consisting of Persian troops and Greek mercenaries. This was to be the 1st battle of his military battles in the Asia minor it would result in a victory for Alexander. From
Herodotus is known as the “Father of History,” because he is the first person to write what we would consider real history. I addition, he is the person who wrote the first recorded instance of the word history. Herodotus tried to write a history that was truer and more objective. He typically wrote about the culture and people in their societies. Herodotus also had drawn on and Ionian tradition of storytelling, collecting, and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels. These
Alexander quickly harnessed the forces that his father's (Phillip of Macedonia) reforms had made into the premier military power in the region. In 334 B.C., he led a grand army across the Hellespont in Asia. With some 43,000 infantry and 5,500 cavalry, it was the most formidable military expedition ever to leave Greece. The first to reach Asiatic soil, Alexander’s main objective was to not only conquer, but to spread the culture and philosophies
The late 5th, early 4th centuries, in Athens were an eventful and emotional time for civilians. Between wars and the political debates of the time, civilians were fearful and anxious over the uncertainty of their government. To their advantage, they had games and other forms of entertainment, such as western theater to distract them from the outside world. Aristophanes was one of many playwrights to write comedy and satire plays, specifically Clouds and Women at the Thesmophoria are said to be the
closest Islamic state to Shakespeare's Europe -- and the most dangerous. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 heralded the utter destruction of the old Byzantine Empire and the rise of the new regime of the Ottoman Turks. Straddling Asia Minor and the Hellespont, the new government cut off Mediterranean access to the Black Sea and deprived Europe of its land route to India. (The search for a new route led Columbus to his discovery of the New World). The Ottomans steadily marched up the Balkan peninsula
During the Renaissance era, Christopher Marlowe impacted and inspired many of his fellow playwrights during his short life. With the success of his plays and poems, some including Tamburlaine the Great and Hero and Leander, came the praise for Marlowe’s contemporaries. According to Peter Farey, there were notably few contemporary dramatists whom had anything negative to say about Marlowe, although he received much criticism regarding his personal life. His relatively clean reputation diminished after
focus on the key battles and the important factors, most notably the timing of the attack, the quality of his expeditionary force and Xerxes’ personal faults. Overall, Xerxes’ initial strategy was sound. Before he had even bridged and crossed the Hellespont , Xerxes had established a very good relationship with the Macedonian Empire and had received submissions from city-states down to Boeotia (7.132.1). Essential communications with Persia were secure and Xerxes’ army had a good base for the invasion
Since the discovery of Troy in 1870 numerous extensive archaeological excavations have taken place in order to determine whether the conflicts that clearly occurred at Troy have any association with the Trojan War described in Homers Iliad. Though sources relating to the topic are limited besides the city of Troy itself, we are able to make some conclusions about the events that took place at Troy around 1200 BC. Troy was a well built Bronze Age city that was designed to withstand attacks. The city
From my studies in this course throughout the fall semester, I have found myself to be very captivated and fascinated by the most influential and famous historical figures ever known to man with the exception of Jesus and Mohammed. I have chosen Alexander the Great, because I have great respect for his abundant accomplishments, and also because he signifies the strong side of mankind’s personality, bravery and heroism. Even though I have known and heard about alexander the Great before taking History
she pleaded with the god Zeus, asking him to save her young children. Zeus, showing mercy, sent a golden ram to rescue Nephele’s children. Unfortunately, the ram was only successful in saving one of the kids—Helle fell off at the place named Hellespont in her honor, located between Europe and Asia. Phixrus, who survived, sacrificed the ram in appreciation to Zeus. After sacrificing the ram, Phixrus gave its golden fleece to the King, who returned the favor by “rewarding the ram by giving it an
Lawrence Redmond Mardonius During the 5th century BC, the Persian Empire was embroiled in military conflict, as the Persian Empire was attempting to rule the Greek city states. During early 5th century BC, which ranged from 499 BC to 449 BC, one Persian military leader, Mardonius, was regarded as one of the bravest and most trusted of all Persian military commanders. Mardonius, who shared a close relationship with the King Darius I and King Xerxes of Persia, was an ambitious man, who rose
Introduction An important theme in Herodotus’ histories is that of Religion. The perception we get of Persian religion from Herodotus may be perceived as biased and not entirely truthful and so it is important to dig deeper and study the subject from both the Greek perspective and the non-Greek perspective. According to Herodotus, a possible religious motif might lie behind the reason for the Persian wars with the Greeks’ destruction of the sanctuary of Cybebe (Herodotus 5.101-102). Greek authors
clear in, The Histories, that the Persian king, Xerxes, was infected with hubris. Following is a particularly outlandish display of hubris by King Xerxes after the decimation of his bridge. “Xerxes was mightily angry, and he gave orders that the Hellespont should receive three hundred lashes and that a pair of fetter should be cast into the water.” (Xerxes’ Invasion of Greece pg. 129). Herodotus made it very clear from the actions of Xerxes that hubris had infected his thinking. Not only did hubris
previous attacks from the Latin’s, Bulgarians, and the one who finished them off Ottomans. Constantine The Great may have built Constantinople, but it took the place of a Greek city-state that had been around for much longer. The small city on the Hellespont gave its name to the empire, Byzantium. In Greek Byzantion, was constructed in 657 B.C.E. and long after that the empire built around has been called the Byzantine Empire ever since. In 196 C.E. Byzantium was burned to the ground in a dynastic dispute