eBooks „Sparta“
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Hugin 01 Berner
Denkmäler in Bremen-Vegesack
DENK MAL ÜBER’S DENKMAL NACH !
- Humor
- Deutsch
- 2 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 185
- 7
DIC HOSPES SPARTAE
NOS TE HIC VIDISSE IACENTES
DUM SANCTIS PATRIAE LEGIBUS
OBSEQUIMUR!
„In Sparta, Fremder, verkünde, du sahst uns hier liegen,
wie wir die heiligen Gesetze des Vaterlandes befolgten.“
– MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO: Gespräche in Tusculum 1, 101.
Das Mahnmal 'Dem unbekannten Deserteur' wurde am 18. Oktober 1986 im Bürgerhaus Vegesack aufgestellt. Entsprechend dem 'Zeitgeist' der 80er-Jahre kam es über das damalige Tabuthema 'Desertion' zu einer scharfen öffentlichen Diskussion zwischen den Befürwortern und den Gegnern des Deserteur-Mahnmals.
Das 'Bremer Mahnmal im G.H. Bürgerhaus Vegesack' wurde zunehmend als Ausdruck eines toleranteren Denkens in der Gesellschaft wahrgenommen. Besuchergruppen aus dem Ausland, Journalisten und Fernsehteams, trugen dazu bei, daß der 'Unbekannte Deserteur' in Vegesack öffentlich akzeptiert wurde. [mehr]
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Jacob Abbott
Xerxes
- Biografie/Autobiografie
- Englisch
- 57757 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 204
- 2
Xerxes I of Persia also known as Xerxes the Great was the fourth king of the kings of Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes was crowned and succeeded his father in October–December 486 BC when he was about 36 years old. The transition of power to Xerxes was smooth due again in part to the great authority of Atossa and his accession of royal power was not challenged by any person at court or in the Achaemenian family, or any subject nation.
Almost immediately, Xerxes crushed revolts in Egypt and Babylon that had broken out the year before, and appointed his brother Achaemenes as governor or satrap (Old Persian: khshathrapavan) over Egypt. In 484 BC, he outraged the Babylonians by violently confiscating and melting down the golden statue of Marduk the hands of which the rightful king of Babylon had to clasp each New Year's Day. This sacrilege led the Babylonians to rebel in 484 BC and 482 BC, so that in contemporary Babylonian documents, Xerxes refused his father's title of King of Babylon, being named rather as King of Persia and Media, Great King, King of Kings (Shahanshah) and King of Nations (i.e. of the world).
At the Battle of Thermopylae, a small force of Greek warriors led by King Leonidas of Sparta resisted the much larger Persian forces, but were ultimately defeated. According to Herodotus, the Persians broke the Spartan phalanx after a Greek man called Ephialtes betrayed his country by telling the Persians of another pass around the mountains. After Thermopylae, Athens was captured and the Athenians were driven back to their last line of defense at the Isthmus of Corinth and in the Saronic Gulf. What happened next is a matter of some controversy. According to Herodotus, upon encountering the deserted city, in a fit of rage uncharacteristic even for Persian kings, Xerxes had Athens burned. He immediately regretted this action and ordered it rebuilt the next day. However, Persian scholars dispute this view as pan-Hellenic propaganda, arguing that Sparta, not Athens, was Xerxes's main foe in his Greek campaigns, and that Xerxes would have had nothing to gain by destroying a major center of trade and commerce like Athens once he had already captured it. [mehr]
Stichwörter: xerxes the great, xerxes, biography, jacob abbott, persian history, greek history, military history, persia
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Henry Morley
Ideal Commonwealths (Fiscle Part-I)
- Spiele
- Englisch
- 94656 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Of Lycurgus The Lawgiver We Have Nothing To Relate That Is Certain And
Uncontroverted. For There Are Different Accounts Of His Birth, His
Travels, His Death, And Especially Of The Laws And Form Of Government
Which He Established. But Least Of All Are The Times Agreed Upon In
Which This Great Man Lived. For Some Say He Flourished At The Same Time
With Iphitus, And Joined With Him In Settling The Cessation Of Arms
During The Olympic Games. Among These Is Aristotle The Philosopher, Who
Alleges For Proof An Olympic Quoit, On Which Was Preserved The
Inscription Of Lycurgus's Name. But Others Who, With Eratosthenes And
Apollodorus, Compute The Time By The Succession Of The Spartan Kings,
Place Him Much Earlier Than The First Olympiad. Timaeus, However,
Supposes That, As There Were Two Lycurguses In Sparta At Different
Times, The Actions Of Both Are Ascribed To One, On Account Of His
Particular Renown; And That The More Ancient Of Them Lived Not Long
After Homer: Nay, Some Say He Had Seen Him. Xenophon Too Confirms The
Opinion Of His Antiquity, When He Makes Him Contemporary With The
Heraclidae. It Is True, The Latest Of The Lacedaemonian Kings Were Of The
Lineage Of The Heraclidae; But Xenophon There Seems To Speak Of The First
And More Immediate Descendants Of Hercules. As The History Of Those
Times Is Thus Involved, In Relating The Circumstances Of Lycurgus's
Life, We Shall Endeavour To Select Such As Are Least Controverted, And
Follow Authors Of The Greatest Credit. [mehr]
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