Agon was good for the Greek Society by uniting the City-States; even for a short while but still able to bring them together for small amounts of time. ... One of these great wars would be such as in homers epics and the Battle of Troy in the Iliad. The Iliad shows us how Greeks have always thought about the honor achieved on the battlefield are the greatest honor above all. ... (Homer, Iliad) (Epic as History) The second time Greece came together was as a nation was when the Persian Empire invades Greece, first under the rule of Darius then under his son Xerxes. ...

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The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...

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Today the modern civilization only exists because of the major accomplishments of Greek or Hellenic people who lived approximately between 1150 B.C.E and 420 B.C.E. They introduced us to politics, democracy, philosophy, metaphysics, literature, architecture, history, entertainment and tragedy. All ...

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