This paper analyses the discussion between Athenian stranger, Cretan legislator Crenus, and Spartan Mercilus in "The Laws", It explains "Nomocracy", purpose of legislation, cultivation Justice, Virtue Courage Temperance, relationship drinking education Virtue, respectively, order to show that "Nomocracy" is best political system can be achieved reality.

In this article two bawdy passages are compared. In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Athenian and Spartan negotiators, driven to a state of desperation by their women’s sex-strike, map out their respective sexo-territorial demands on the sexy body of the personified Reconciliation. In Shakespeare’s The comedy of errors, again, Dromio of Syracuse is trying to escape from the rotund kitchen maid Nell, w...

Abstract The ancient Greek city-states were slave societies, but the institutions of slavery differed across them. slaves democratic Athens foreigners bought as chattels labouring in agriculture, craftsmanship, banking, mining, and domestic services often given some limited freedoms extra pay. On contrary, helots, oligarchic Sparta, indigenous lands they cultivated for their masters treated har...

The aim of our study is to present the most important elements ancient Greek (Spartan, Athenian) education, in which physical education and martial arts were given a prominent role, based on aspect Hegedűs’ (2020) work. However, for this reason, it worth mentioning those individuals their who borne with some limitation or disability. Furthermore, by introducing educational activities carried ou...

abstract the oldest comic playwright from ancient world, whose works have survived and reached us, is aristophanes the greek. names of many comic playwrights are found during the 5th century b.c. in ancient greece; however, works of none of whom is survived virtually complete. thus, the only criterion for judging comedies of golden age of ancient greece is applied to the works of aristophanes. ...

Scholars often speak of ancient Greek masculinity and manhood as if there were a single, monolithic, simple conception. I will show that the ancient Greeks, like us today, had competing models or constructions of gender and that what it meant to be a man was different in different contexts. I will focus on three constructions of the masculine gender in ancient (classical and post-classical) Gre...

The dialogue between the model Athenian landowner Ischomachus and his wife recounted in Xenophon's Oeconomicus appears to offer a rare glimpse of the inner workings of an -ordinary Athenian household and a rare portrait of an ordinary Athenian wife. Through Ischomachus's report to Socrates of a series of conversations in which he instructed his wife in her proper activities. the dialogue provid...

In the Lysistrata of Aristophanes, the women of all Greece, deprived of sexual pleasure because their husbands are fighting each other in the Peloponnesian War, determine to end the war. To secure their own sensuous good, they agree on a sex-strike against their husbands and the seizing of the Athenian acropolis. The seizing of the Acropolis, however, leads to a deepening of heir goals. Opposed...

Although the birth of Classical Greece is often attributed to constitutional reforms Cleisthenes (508/507 BCE), achievement an economically minded government under Peisistratid tyrant Hippias (527–510 BCE) potentially paved way by advancing Athenian silver for exportation in international trade. It proposed here that new technology, which initiated transition from acquiring ‘dry’ ores silver-be...