1. Athens Versus Sparta
During the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians believed that the king was the living embodiment of their god. ... During the Old Kingdom, everything prospered and many great things were achieved during this period. But, by the end of the Old Kingdom, the Nile failed its duty and most things failed in return. The years starting the era of the Middle Kingdom was akin to the beginning of the Old Kingdom in many ways because peace had been restored, and people prospered. ... The Old Kingdom did not prosper because of flaws of nature, whereas the Middle Kingdom saw its problems through man itself in the l...
Soon after they locked the gates, a Chorus of Old Men arrived carrying fire-pots and heavy sticks, threatening to burn the women out of the Acropolis. As the men are lying down the logs, a Chorus of Old Women came with pitchers of water and dump it on the Chorus of Old Men after hurling nasty insults were exchanged. ... The Chorus of Old Men feared that the women had been conspiring with Sparta. ... The last treaty was the thirty-year vintage of peace on land and sea. ... He goes to Euripides, a play writer, to get some old ratty beggar clothes from him that he used in one of his plays. ...
Pericles was a wealthy man that had a well known family and he had plenty of power. ... Alcibiades was well educated by a man named Zopyrus. ... In one situation Alcibiades was wrestling a young man and he bit him. The young man said that only girls bite. ...