During the Lyric Age (800-500B.C.), the Greeks expanded geographically, artistically, and politically. With the revival of literacy, there was a literary flowering where poets began to break away from the heroic tradition and write about their own lives. During this time, Sparta and Athens rose to p...

Athens and Sparta were the two major city-states during the ancient Greece time period. These two city-states were very different from each other in many ways. One reason for this was because the city-states were separated from each other by low rugged mountains. This made travel and communication d...

Compare the leadership qualities of Pericles and Creon In the ancient Greek period, it's hard to tell that whether a man has a good leadership or not just based on his triumphant on wars since there are many political and social factors which roughly influence their states and personal live...

The Lysistrata of Aristophanes Aristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of Athen's warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was engaged in war, he relentlessly and wittliy attacked the war, the ideals of the war...