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Letha Schmidt
March 14, 2007
Professor Wolk
Midterm
1. Pericles was a very influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during n the city's Golden Age. He had such a profound influence on Athenian society that he was acclaimed as "the first citizen of Athens". He led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. He also promoted the arts and literature, which became the reason why Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the Greek world. He began a project that built most of today’s surviving structures. This project beautified the city and gave work to the people.
2. Solon was a famous Athenian lawmaker and poet. He began a series of political reforms that greatly increased citizen participation in Athenian government. He canceled all land debt, outlawed new loans that were based on humans being collateral and freed people who had been enslaved due to debt. But because he refused to redistribute the land he never solved the problem. His reforms, unfortunately, did not please the wealthy or the poor. He left Athens for about ten years to travel and died not long after his return. However, he spent that period warning people against rulers who would not uphold his reforms.
3. A polis, when used to describe classical Athens, is often translated as "city-state." The word originates from the ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the Archaic period. The term city-state which originated in English does not fully translate the Greek term. The term polis changed with the development of the government and finally with the emergence of a citizenship notion between the land owners, it came to describe the entire body of citizens. This became the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece.
4. Cincinnatus was an ancient Roman political figure. He was regarded by the Romans as one of the heroes of...
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