Early Greek Land Warfare as Symbolic Expression

Connor, W. Robert

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“…This occurred with the performance of the "pyrrhic dance", a war dance with weapons during which the adolescent was judged for his ability in handling weapons (Lykesas & Mouratidis, 2005). So, during the "pyrrhic dance" that unfolded the ritual of the passage to adulthood, the adolescent had the duty to display not only his physical abilities but also his worship intention (Connor, 1988). Besides "Kourai-Korai", the name of the Nymphs also meant young girls ready to get married and " " (brides) or newlywed girls.…”

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Τhe Presence of Dance in Female Deities of the Greek Antiquity

Lykesas¹,

Papaioannou²,

Δανιά³

et al. 2017

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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Section: The Nymphsmentioning

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Τhe Presence of Dance in Female Deities of the Greek Antiquity

Lykesas¹,

Papaioannou²,

Δανιά³

et al. 2017

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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“…Even after the sixth century BC, Greek poleis that did not aspire to be major or dominant military powers (such as Athens, Sparta, and Thebes) persisted with this small-scale fighting on land. 7 War changed in two big ways in the classical period, both of which can be seen most clearly in the polis of Athens. In the fifth century this state quickly became one of Greece's dominant military powers, and was largely responsible for making the wars of the Greeks reliant on public finance.…”

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Public Finance and War in Ancient Greece

Pritchard¹

2015

Greece & Rome

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Before the Persian Wars the Greeks did not rely on public finance to fight each other. Their hoplites armed and fed themselves. But in the confrontation with Persia this private funding of war proved to be inadequate. The liberation of the Greek states beyond the Balkans required the destruction of Persia's sea power. In 478 bc Athens agreed to lead an alliance to do just this. It already had Greece's largest fleet. But each campaign of this ongoing war would need tens of thousands of sailors and would go on for months. No single Greek city-state could pay for such campaigns. The alliance thus agreed to adopt the Persian method for funding war: its members would pay a fixed amount of tribute annually. This enabled Athens to force Persia out of the Dardanelles and Ionia. But the Athenians also realized that their military power depended on tribute, and so they tightened their control of its payers. In so doing they turned the alliance into an empire.

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“…Violent conflict was endemic among the Greek city-states and fairly often ended in state-death. Although many interstate conflicts, especially before the mid-fifth century B.C., were more or less ritualized contests with little demographic impact (Connor 1988), some battles had extremely high casualties (Krentz 1985(Krentz , 2002, and the extermination or enslavement of entire state populations was a realistically possible outcome of interstate war. The relationship between democracy and warfare has been a feature of analytic work on democracy from the very beginning and is prominent in the work of both Herodotus and Thucydides.…”

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What the Ancient Greeks Can Tell Us About Democracy

Ober

2008

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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The question of what the ancient Greeks can tell us about democracy can be answered by reference to three fields that have traditionally been pursued with little reference to one another: ancient history, classical political theory, and political science. These fields have been coming into more fruitful contact over the past 20 years, as evidenced by a spate of interdisciplinary work. Historians, political theorists, and political scientists interested in classical Greek democracy are increasingly capable of leveraging results across disciplinary lines. As a result, the classical Greek experience has more to tell us about the origins and definition of democracy, and about the relationships between participatory democracy and formal institutions, rhetoric, civic identity, political values, political criticism, war, economy, culture, and religion.

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Early Greek Land Warfare as Symbolic Expression

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Τhe Presence of Dance in Female Deities of the Greek Antiquity

Τhe Presence of Dance in Female Deities of the Greek Antiquity

Public Finance and War in Ancient Greece

What the Ancient Greeks Can Tell Us About Democracy

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