The Hoplite Revolution and Greek Warfare Hoplite warfare was a representation of a source of living, and a form of values and relations between the Polis. Only the men considered to be a Hoplite, and part of the unit known as Phalanx, were able to afford the expensive Hoplite armour. The unif...
The Hoplite Revolution and Greek Warfare Hoplite warfare was a representation of a source of living, and a form of values and relations between the Polis. Only the men considered to be a Hoplite, and part of the unit known as Phalanx, were able to afford the expensive Hoplite armour. The unif...
Getting someone to do something they don't want to can take time and effort. Persuasion takes a lot of words used in a good, persuasive way. In "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Marc Antony took his time and effort to persuade the people of Rome. Antony uses emotional appeal t...
In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus inflicts upon the reader a feeling of great pity and terror because he is not completely evil or completely virtuous, but partly both. These qualities make Marcus Brutus a tragic hero by Aristotle's definition. On the account of his being a trag...
Since early 2010, the Eurozone has been facing a major debt crisis. Greece as a Eurozone nation from the mid-1990's have been persistently spending more than its total accrued tax revenues. Because of this deficit, the country borrowed to contain and control its shortfalls and invariably its debt bu...
"Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar" (Act III si line 76) were Julius Caesar's final words in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. After these final words, Marcus Brutus and Marcus Antonius came to speak at Julius Caesar's funeral. Their speeches had many similarities and differences in their approach,...
The metaphor asserts that the "loyal kinsmen", such as Alchibiades are the "noble silver drachma" of the city and should be recalled to replace the "newcomers" who are likened to "shoddy silver-plated coppers, inferior to their "well-schooled" counterparts. ...
In all Shakespeare's plays, there is a center of drama where someone with a high sensitive moral conscience, suffers and dies because of a tragic weakness. In Julius Caesar, Caesar is the character to suffer and die because he was seen as too ambitious and thought by some to be a possible tyran...
1. The Gracchi a) According to the source, how did Rome, despite its successes, have problems domestically amongst both the poor of Rome and the provincials of Italy during the 130s? b) How did Tiberius Gracchus try to correct the abuses of rich senators? What was the reaction of the latter group t...