?????????????i need real historic facts
2007-02-27 15:52:00 · 3 answers · asked by munkimonika 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Well, if you need real, historical facts, I suggest you look in a book. Yahoo Answers probably isn't the best place to get them. We're all well meaning, but I have a feeling that very few of us (myself especially) are well-respected scholars in our fields. However, I can point you in the right direction to said historical facts. I suggest you look at Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, and at Simon Hornblower's commentary on it. He's the expert, and if there are facts to be had, that's where the having's at.
2007-02-27 16:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by ithyphallos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think two nations or Greek city-states were more different than Sparta and Athens - politically, socially, militarily.
In Sparta, the system of government was a combination of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. A system where there were two kings, who were balanced by a group of nobles, and then there was the democratic element of an assembly. While Athens had a democratic system - a cast balot (which was a piece of pottery with the name inscribed on it).
Socially, the Spartan people - male and female, were born to fight for the state. Children born weak or with deformaties were killed at birth - i believe thrown from a mountain or left to die there.
I think in Ancient athens - only the men went to war.
Militarily - Sparta was a land power. Athens was a sea-based power after the Persian wars. While sparta was content to be a major land power, Athens pursued an empire by using her fleet to strong arm those allies from the Persian wars to continue paying tribute to fight for a cause - that ceased to become about Protecting Greece - and more about making Athens dominant.
The contrast between these two city states was to erupt into the Peloponnesian wars.
2007-02-27 21:31:21 · answer #2 · answered by Big B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were both democratic republics located on the Greek Peloponese, and shared religion/mythology.
Very different cultures:
Athenians liked to talk/philosophize (rhetoric)
Spartans liked to fight, exercise, and abhorred creature comforts.
2007-02-27 20:33:30 · answer #3 · answered by ladybugewa 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋