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5 Aug 2020 6 minute read 9 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The mid to late 6th century BC saw the rise of the first world superpower in the Middle East. From humble beginnings deep in Iran, a lineage of Persian kings, known as the Achaemenids, emerged to dominate the region, creating an empire that stretched...
1 Aug 2020 19 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The history of the world, from one perspective, is one of tyrants, monarchs, emperors and dictators vying for power and repressing the wills and freedoms of the many beneath them. Yet in one corner of the world, in the late sixth century BC, one smal...
26 Jul 2020 21 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The amount of tyrants that took control of a city in ancient Greece is near innumerable, so I've decided to limit this post to three cities I found to have the most interesting stories of being ruled by tyrants: the cities of Athens, Corinth and the...
25 Jul 2020 4 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia. First settled in Neolithic times, some six thousand years ago, the city would go on to birth...
23 Jul 2020 13 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Once all of Solon's laws were implemented, there wasn’t a day that went by in which he didn’t receive an audience expressing their approval or disproval of a law. People were also known to approach Solon asking about the finite details of each law. W...
22 Jul 2020 27 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
At the end of the sixth century BC, Cleisthenes is famous for instituting Ancient Athenian democracy as we know it. Yet the road to this form of government was a long one for the city-state. The previous century saw decades of economic, moral and pol...
21 Jul 2020 33 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
It occurred to me one day that Sparta, although one of the more thinly populated of the Greek states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece, and I fell to wondering how this could have happened. But when I considered the...
20 Jul 2020 20 minute read 0 comments CryptoGameTheory
Society and information If we take as a reference point in history the end of the Gold Exchange Standard in the 1970s, we can observe that since then, several changes have occurred in the society. A general optimism and a vision of the future charact...
17 Jul 2020 8 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The hoplite proved to be an effective citizen soldier of the Greek Poleis, able to defend their homes and cities from the outside world, and indeed from other Greeks. However their panoply alone did not make them the great and iconic soldiers they we...
16 Jul 2020 7 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
War exists in all. A warrior’s status in Archaic Greece, and his parts to play in justifying and maintaining a collection of economic benefits, ethical values and political institutions, are already clear. Metal trading, and its importance to those i...
