Plutarch, Charinus, and the Megarian Decree
... course, had reported that the Athenians had charged the Megarians with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even ...
... course, had reported that the Athenians had charged the Megarians with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even ...
KTEMA ES AEI - McGill University
... over Corcyra and Potidaea that were the prime catalysts for war although, as he remarks, the Corinthians could not have succeeded in persuading the Spartans to go to war had there been no history of conflict between the two ...
... over Corcyra and Potidaea that were the prime catalysts for war although, as he remarks, the Corinthians could not have succeeded in persuading the Spartans to go to war had there been no history of conflict between the two ...
History - Manchester eScholar - The University of Manchester
... must have been attended by small groups of delegates, perhaps confined to those whose names are recorded as signatories of the final agreement (5.19.2). They include some leading personalities, notably Nicias and Pleistoanax whose motives for advocating peace are analysed in detail.1 Thucydides may ...
... must have been attended by small groups of delegates, perhaps confined to those whose names are recorded as signatories of the final agreement (5.19.2). They include some leading personalities, notably Nicias and Pleistoanax whose motives for advocating peace are analysed in detail.1 Thucydides may ...
Sleepwalkers in Athens: Power, Norms, and Ambiguity in Thucydides
... roles at different stages (Florini 1996: 363-389), Thucydides has his own place and contribution. The main point of this paper is that Thucydides’ own account of the outbreak of the great war hints at a more nuanced and pluralistic methodology compared to the one that has traditionally been associat ...
... roles at different stages (Florini 1996: 363-389), Thucydides has his own place and contribution. The main point of this paper is that Thucydides’ own account of the outbreak of the great war hints at a more nuanced and pluralistic methodology compared to the one that has traditionally been associat ...
Utilizing Athenian History in the De Corona
... Why would Demosthenes not want to directly mention their conflict with their old rival Sparta and remember certain battles from this time? Referencing the Peloponnesian Wars would most likely weaken Demosthenes’ speech considering that Athens ultimately lost to Sparta, who ended up ruling over them ...
... Why would Demosthenes not want to directly mention their conflict with their old rival Sparta and remember certain battles from this time? Referencing the Peloponnesian Wars would most likely weaken Demosthenes’ speech considering that Athens ultimately lost to Sparta, who ended up ruling over them ...
Stage 2 Classical Studies Assessment Type 3: Special Study
... The greatest recognizable cause of Aspasia's controversy would be her position as a renowned courtesan in Athens. Unlike prostitutes or women of the time, Aspasia was a talented 'hetairai', a higher class escort than the simple prostitute, that had "intellectual training and possessed artistic talen ...
... The greatest recognizable cause of Aspasia's controversy would be her position as a renowned courtesan in Athens. Unlike prostitutes or women of the time, Aspasia was a talented 'hetairai', a higher class escort than the simple prostitute, that had "intellectual training and possessed artistic talen ...
World Literature
... Legacy of the Period The ancient Greeks laid the intellectual and cultural foundations of Western civilization. They debated basic questions about the nature of the universe, the purpose of life, and the meaning of truth. The Greeks not only strove to answer these questions, they also created a logi ...
... Legacy of the Period The ancient Greeks laid the intellectual and cultural foundations of Western civilization. They debated basic questions about the nature of the universe, the purpose of life, and the meaning of truth. The Greeks not only strove to answer these questions, they also created a logi ...
Thucydides on Athens` Democratic Advantage in the Archidamian War
... Thucydides’ implicit chain of reasoning -- that the structural flaws of democracy led inevitably to catastrophic policy failures, that in turn inevitably triggered a downward spiral of civil conflict, and would ultimately spell the end of democratic Athens as a major player on the Greek scene -- was ...
... Thucydides’ implicit chain of reasoning -- that the structural flaws of democracy led inevitably to catastrophic policy failures, that in turn inevitably triggered a downward spiral of civil conflict, and would ultimately spell the end of democratic Athens as a major player on the Greek scene -- was ...
Piraeus - The University of Texas at Austin
... • Athenians move into the Long and Phaleric Walls in 431, Peloponnesian War begins • Plague enters Athens from the Piraeus in 430, things begin to go downhill for Athens • After Pericles’ death (429), fleet misused and Athenians loses the War in 404 • Long Walls torn down and Spartan control enforce ...
... • Athenians move into the Long and Phaleric Walls in 431, Peloponnesian War begins • Plague enters Athens from the Piraeus in 430, things begin to go downhill for Athens • After Pericles’ death (429), fleet misused and Athenians loses the War in 404 • Long Walls torn down and Spartan control enforce ...
How Can International Relations Theorists Benefit from Reading
... exchange for keeping the Aegean Sea safe by the power of its navy, they collected payments from their allies. Moreover, the government of Athens was the paradigm of Greek democracy. The Athenian assembly and judicial service were open to all citizens. Most public officials were selected from among c ...
... exchange for keeping the Aegean Sea safe by the power of its navy, they collected payments from their allies. Moreover, the government of Athens was the paradigm of Greek democracy. The Athenian assembly and judicial service were open to all citizens. Most public officials were selected from among c ...
Thucydides 1, 97, 2 : the "arche of the Athenians" and - E
... to bear, or because they are constrained by the enemy, I ean forgive; but people who inhabit an island, possess city-waUs, are unassailable by our enemy except at sea and on that dement are adequately protected by a fleet of their own, men who were autonomous and treated by us with the highest regar ...
... to bear, or because they are constrained by the enemy, I ean forgive; but people who inhabit an island, possess city-waUs, are unassailable by our enemy except at sea and on that dement are adequately protected by a fleet of their own, men who were autonomous and treated by us with the highest regar ...
Ancient Greek History: Supplemental Readings
... (d) What does Martin say are the deeper causes of the war? (3) What were the symptoms of the plague that raged within overpopulated Athens? (4) What the Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian (Archadamian) War. (5) What were the effects of the plague upon the Athenians? (6) Describe the conflicts at ...
... (d) What does Martin say are the deeper causes of the war? (3) What were the symptoms of the plague that raged within overpopulated Athens? (4) What the Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian (Archadamian) War. (5) What were the effects of the plague upon the Athenians? (6) Describe the conflicts at ...
Melian Dialog: Historical Context, Summary, and Results[1
... Melian Dialog: Historical Context, Summary, and Results1 Historical Context During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), between Athens and Sparta and their various allies, the island of Melos had stayed neutral, and refused to become a subject of Athens. As the war progressed, though, Athens encroac ...
... Melian Dialog: Historical Context, Summary, and Results1 Historical Context During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), between Athens and Sparta and their various allies, the island of Melos had stayed neutral, and refused to become a subject of Athens. As the war progressed, though, Athens encroac ...
The Peloponnesian War
... B. Round #1: the Sparta-Athens war of 460-445--of which we know little. (Thucydides has a sketchy account on pp. 87-103.) C. Round #2 beginnings: 1. The dispute at Epidamnus, 433 BCE. Epidamnus was a tiny colony of Corcyra, a neutral state in the Athens-Sparta conflict. Corcyra was a colony of Corin ...
... B. Round #1: the Sparta-Athens war of 460-445--of which we know little. (Thucydides has a sketchy account on pp. 87-103.) C. Round #2 beginnings: 1. The dispute at Epidamnus, 433 BCE. Epidamnus was a tiny colony of Corcyra, a neutral state in the Athens-Sparta conflict. Corcyra was a colony of Corin ...
Pericles and the Plague: Civil Religion, Anomie, and
... set his description of Athenian response to the plague in the context of Athenian social structure, cultural values, and norms of conduct, precisely as they are described in Pericles's speech. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a more vivid contrast than the one between Pericles's praise of Athenian ...
... set his description of Athenian response to the plague in the context of Athenian social structure, cultural values, and norms of conduct, precisely as they are described in Pericles's speech. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a more vivid contrast than the one between Pericles's praise of Athenian ...
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
... Thucydides: The Reinvention of History is by design a highly selective engagement with, in Kagan’s words, “case studies” of events in Thucydides’s history (227). The Athenian historian’s challenges to contemporary opinions begin on his opening pages, from his claim that the present war was greater t ...
... Thucydides: The Reinvention of History is by design a highly selective engagement with, in Kagan’s words, “case studies” of events in Thucydides’s history (227). The Athenian historian’s challenges to contemporary opinions begin on his opening pages, from his claim that the present war was greater t ...
Instructor Handout 1 TSP 1776
... resistance by the upper classes led by Nicias, they initiated a vigorous offensive strategy. Athenian forces attempted to carry the war to Boeotia (Thebes), Sparta, and even Sicily. In 426 two Athenian armies moved toward Thebes, one under Demosthenes via Acarnania under cover of an attack on Sparta ...
... resistance by the upper classes led by Nicias, they initiated a vigorous offensive strategy. Athenian forces attempted to carry the war to Boeotia (Thebes), Sparta, and even Sicily. In 426 two Athenian armies moved toward Thebes, one under Demosthenes via Acarnania under cover of an attack on Sparta ...
Edith Foster, Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism and
... and so he dedicated himself to reporting those events as completely and accurately as possible. This is how many historians of ancient Greece since Grote have tended to read him, as a reliable (if not indeed unimpeachable) source of information about past events; they may show some concern about the ...
... and so he dedicated himself to reporting those events as completely and accurately as possible. This is how many historians of ancient Greece since Grote have tended to read him, as a reliable (if not indeed unimpeachable) source of information about past events; they may show some concern about the ...
ATHENS vs SPARTA – THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
... Upper class had all of the power, Helots (slaves) did the majority of the work ...
... Upper class had all of the power, Helots (slaves) did the majority of the work ...
Peloponnesian War
... relied mainly on its army for superiority. In 431 BC these alliances went to war against each other in a conflict called the Peloponnesian War. The war, which went on for 27 years, is named for the Peloponnesus, the peninsula on which Sparta is located. The result of the war was the crushing defeat ...
... relied mainly on its army for superiority. In 431 BC these alliances went to war against each other in a conflict called the Peloponnesian War. The war, which went on for 27 years, is named for the Peloponnesus, the peninsula on which Sparta is located. The result of the war was the crushing defeat ...
Athenian Rec. Final2
... may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the native spirit of our citizens” (Carnes et al, 2015, p. 91). This emphasizes the need for forgiveness by providing sanctuary and amnesty to the Thirty because this openness is the very foundation Athens is built ...
... may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the native spirit of our citizens” (Carnes et al, 2015, p. 91). This emphasizes the need for forgiveness by providing sanctuary and amnesty to the Thirty because this openness is the very foundation Athens is built ...
Author of Illusions - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... means of misdirection Thucydides employed to rewrite the history of his times was the inclusion in his work of a unique layer of psychological analysis that describes and explores collective national character and individual human nature as these act and react in the crucible of war. The predictions ...
... means of misdirection Thucydides employed to rewrite the history of his times was the inclusion in his work of a unique layer of psychological analysis that describes and explores collective national character and individual human nature as these act and react in the crucible of war. The predictions ...
2.3 Mo
... enemies, due to his close connection with him. Targetting Pheidias was an attempt to harm Pericles' status. They first accused him of stealing gold from the Athena Parthenos in 432 BC, however Pheidias was able to prove his innocence. They then charged him with impiety, based on the fact that he had ...
... enemies, due to his close connection with him. Targetting Pheidias was an attempt to harm Pericles' status. They first accused him of stealing gold from the Athena Parthenos in 432 BC, however Pheidias was able to prove his innocence. They then charged him with impiety, based on the fact that he had ...
Aspasia - People Server at UNCW
... The plague in Athens in 430 B.C. killed both of Pericles' sons by his first wife. This led him to ask for an exemption from the citizenship law, which he himself had enacted, for his illegimate son by Aspasia. The citizenship law decreed that only persons whose father and mother were both Athenians ...
... The plague in Athens in 430 B.C. killed both of Pericles' sons by his first wife. This led him to ask for an exemption from the citizenship law, which he himself had enacted, for his illegimate son by Aspasia. The citizenship law decreed that only persons whose father and mother were both Athenians ...
Pericles
Pericles (/ˈpɛrɪkliːz/; Greek: Περικλῆς Periklēs, pronounced [pe.ri.klɛ̂ːs] in Classical Attic; c. 495 – 429 BC) was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, a contemporary historian, acclaimed him as ""the first citizen of Athens"". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire, and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the ""Age of Pericles"", though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.Pericles promoted the arts and literature; it is principally through his efforts that Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified and protected the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people. Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.