Thirty Tyrants

The sculpture was made during the Late Classical Period, which was the era that had an increased motion in expressive art during the 4th century. The sculptors of the 4th century Late Classical period developed Classical sculpture from idealized, life-like, stoic statues to depicting narratives and figures in less ideal states (Boundless, 2015). This period begins with the ending of the High Classical Period and with the start and end of the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 BCE leaving Sparta victorious

Dictionary.com defines a gadfly as “any of various flies… that bite or annoy domestic animals.” To most people- farmers, horseback riders, and even the occasional pool goer- gadflies are seen as a nuisance. They wreak havoc on livestock and humans alike, with seemingly no purpose to them other than to annoy and disrupt. However, Socrates sees the gadfly as more than just a pest. In Plato’s “Apology”, he compares society to “a great and noble horse” and himself to a gadfly. In his eyes, society has

The Thirty Tyrants was the name for the small group of men who overthrew the Athenian democracy to replace it with their own oligarchy form of government, where the few ruled over the many. While Athenian men had previously enjoyed many rights within their city-state, under the rule of the Thirty Tyrants a council of 500 men were assembled to fulfill government roles, while the rest of the citizens were stripped of their rights. While it was clear toward the end of Socrates’ life when

Ancient Greece consisted of several hundred polies or city states. Many of them were villages or small towns, but there were two big and powerful Greek polies, Athens and Sparta. Athens was a cultural and economic powerhouse, and the birthplace of democracy. Sparta was an imperial city state, and had two kings (Brand, n.d.). (1) There were five types of f government in Ancient Greece: monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, tyranny and democracy. Monarchy Monarchy is “undivided rule or absolute

In this essay I will cover the laws created by Solon and the public reaction versus the acts done by Pisistratus during his age of Tyranny on Athens, to highlight the different approaches of two men with opposing ideals about how Athens should be governed and which one worked out best for the people. So in essence, did Solons reforms make a better constitution in terms of the prosperity of the people, than the laws created by Pisistratus during his Tyranny? Solon is hailed as the person who started

Tyrannicide is the killing of a tyrant. Usually killed for the common good. The English noun tyrant derives from Latin tyrannus, meaning "illegitimate ruler". The term Tryannicides describes those who kill tyrants. Tyrants can be classified in two categories – usurpation and oppression. A tyrant by usurpation is when a tyrant tries to take down a higher ruler. In other words, a tyrant by usurpation is a traitor. These types of tyrants may be put straight to death by legitimate authority. If a usurper

Andrewes mentions “connections with other tyrants” as one of his characteristics of tyranny and in Herodotus we can find several evidences to support this claim. Polykrates is friends with Amasis, the king of Egypt and with Cambyses of Cyrus. Cambyses was already waging war with Egypt when Amasis

In this essay I will attempt to prove that a ‘typical tyrant’ does not exist as each have their own ambitions. The issue with asking whether there is such thing as a typical tyrant arises from the fact that we must consider what the word ‘tyrant’ actually means. The Oxford Classical Dictionary states, “Tyranny was not a special form of constitution, or necessarily a reign of terror; the tyrant might either rule directly or retain the existing political institutions but exercise a preponderant influence

hail him as the ultimate Machiavel.  This build up only serves to further the dramatic irony when Richard falls from his throne.  The nature of Richard's character is key to discovering the commentary Shakespeare is delivering on the nature of tyrants.  By setting up Richard to be seen as the ultimate Machiavel, only to have him utterly destroyed, Shakespeare makes a dramatic commentary on the frailty of tyranny and such men as would aspire to tyrannical rule.   From the outset of the

Ancient Greece experienced many forms of government during its lifespan. The different cities, that composed Ancient Greece, experienced with these forms of governments one after another. Or sometimes neighbored cities would be ruled differently, by one man or a group of men. Some of the popular forms of ruling were a monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and a more widely known form, democracy. Ancient Greeks proved to us how effective and how long these forms of ruling were able to last before