OK this may be aeasy cause i just woke up and thought it.
OK This ancient greek literature was different from other greek writing because for the one of the first times, the gods did not affect the outcome.
I want to know the author and the book
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OK this may be aeasy cause i just woke up and thought it.
OK This ancient greek literature was different from other greek writing because for the one of the first times, the gods did not affect the outcome.
I want to know the author and the book
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hannibal99
yep thats right
I was a girl prodigy who warned my father against foreigners. Later in life, I told people to remove the wax, and my husband met a famous end in subsequent events. Who am I? Who was my husband?
Well, I would guess Cassandra. But I might be wrong, because I'm pretty sure that Cassandra had no husband in any of the tales, even in later ones she appeared in like Troilus and Cressida. She was brought back by Agamemnon as his concubine, though, after the Trojan war.
Im taking a wild guess here: helen
helens husband was paris (hector? i havent read the illiad in a while)
Both the subject and her husband were archetypes of their people. They're both historical figures.
You lost me there, Pannonian. An archetype and historical? Aren't the two mutually exclusive? One is an ideal, the other is an actuality. I think maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
The woman was as a woman of their people should be. The man was as a man of their people should be. The man was lionised at birth and after death. There won't be many people in the History forum who won't have heard of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aenlic
OK, well. I'm still stumped; but I understand your usage of the words. I was misunderstanding you. My fault, not yours. :smile:
This is going to be a fun! I like the tough ones.
Gorgo and Leonidas
Leonidas' famous end and symbolisation of Spartan values led me to the answer ~:)
Gorgo was the daughter of King Cleomenes of Sparta, who allowed her to attend public affairs while still very young. She was only 8 or 9 when Aristagoras attempted to gain Spartan aid in a war by trying to bribe Cleomenes. Gorgo warned her father to leave, lest the foreigner should corrupt him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiberius
Years later, the Spartans received a blank wax tablet which befuddled them with its lack of point. Gorgo suggested that they should scrape off the wax and the message would be found underneath. It was a message from their exiled King, Cleomenes' rival Demaratus, warning of an impending invasion by the Persian King Xerxes.
A combined Greek council decided to fight a delaying action at the chokepoint at Thermopylae, to allow time for full mobilisation of Greek forces. Sparta sent a contingent of 300 under one of their Kings, Gorgo's husband Leonidas.
Gorgo appears a number of times in Herodotus and Plutarch as the archetypal Spartan woman.
Your turn Tiberius.Quote:
http://us.geocities.com/philolakone/spwomen.html
Plutarch also included her in his section of the sayings of Spartan women. Here they are:
'When asked by a woman from Attica, 'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?, she said: 'Because we are also the only ones who give birth to men.'
'On her husband Leonidas' departure for Thermopylae, while urging him to show himself worthy of Sparta, she asked what she should do. He said: 'Marry a good man and bear good children.'
I found it on that website as well ~;p
Question time...
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Not using that'n anymore, hardly counts as history. The guy's still alive. You can do it if you want.
Instead:
What peoples made the first flamethrower, and when?
Who is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiberius
Chinese, around the end of the 1st millenium AD? According to a BBC programme anyway.Quote:
Instead:
What peoples made the first flamethrower, and when?
Greek fire was invented around 673AD and pumped from ships using siphons, so presumably that counts as a flamethrower...
Anyway, I thought this was funny:
'Private ownership of flamethrowers is not restricted in the United States by the federal law, but it is restricted in some states...'
Beats a burglar alarm anyday.
Just be careful not to burn your house! :sweatdrop:
Don't think so, Pannonian.
matteus: earlier.
The basic idea of a flamethrower is to spread fire by launching burning fuel. The earliest flamethrowers, dating roughly from the 5th century B.C., were long tubes filled with burning solid material (such as sulfur or coal). These weapons worked in the same way as a blow-gun -- warriors just blew into one end of the tube, propelling the burning matter toward their enemies.
Was it not the Boeotians of central Greece? I'm not certain of the time-period (probably after 600 BC).
EDIT: Missed an "o" in Boeotians.
I'd like the full answer please gents. ~;)
Sarmatian: peoples please?
Perplexed: a date please?
Okay, found some information.
The device I mentioned was used by the Thebans to burn down wooden sections of the Athenian defenses during the siege of Delium in 424 BC. The engine itself was composed of a tube (a hollow beam of wood lined inside with iron), with a bellows at one end and a suspended cauldron of hot burning sulphur and pitch at the other. The bellows would propel air through the tube which stirred up the fire burning in the cauldron, projecting it out onto the wooden defenses. The device was mounted on a set of cart-wheels which allowed it to be brought up close to the wall while soldiers gave the crew that kept the fire going and worked the bellows covering fire.
Good work.
On to you, perplexed.
To anyone who's interested, it was the Boeotians
Okay, now I need to think of a question of my own... ~:handball:
Question: (An easy one because I've been isolated from all of my books)
What powerful Asian kingdom (which collapsed in the 6th century BC) is credited with minting the first known gold coinage, and who was its monarch at the time of the collapse?
Croesus was the last king of Lydia until 546 BC.
Right, I told you it would be easy. Back to you.
EDIT: I just noticed that the answer to my question was within the first two sentences of the Wikipedia entry for "gold coinage". That's rather... unfortunate. :inquisitive:
Okay.. um.
Which person massacred 80,000 civilian enemies in one day, and also was a biological+chemical weapons enthusiast? So much so that he was scared of tasting his own medicine, and so chemistry failed him in his late life.
Mithridates VI?
Bingo.
He massacred 80,000 Italian citizens in one day after taking Rome's Asia province, and used many weapons which were seen as not honourable, such as maltha, a very viscous form of naptha, and barbed poison arrows. In his late life, he tried suicide by poisoning after defeat at the hands of Pompeius Magnus, but failed because of his regular dose of Antidotum Mithridatum, which made him immune to his own poison. He had a servant to kill him because of this.
One for afficionados in Commonwealth military history. It still exists today, slightly changed (reflected in the question). It also concerns one of the most famous objects in the world, which was the reason for the change.
Three men came from this path of trees, only one came back.
Three men came from this path of courage, only one came back.
What is this? Where is this? Why the change? Who were they?