Winchester 2 Table of Contents Chapter One: Historical Background
... assembly and the three generals assigned to positions of command in the Sicilian Expedition – Alcibiades, Nicias, and Lamachus – and attempt to contextualize Alcibiades’ defecting from Athens to Sparta. I focus on the Sicilian Expedition narrative in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War Book ...
... assembly and the three generals assigned to positions of command in the Sicilian Expedition – Alcibiades, Nicias, and Lamachus – and attempt to contextualize Alcibiades’ defecting from Athens to Sparta. I focus on the Sicilian Expedition narrative in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War Book ...
e Development of Athenian Democracy
... Formerly, the Council of the Areopagus, which consisted of former Archons, chose the Nine Archons each year – a self-perpetuating system that ensured that the office of Archon was held only by aristocrats. Solon had all of the Athenians elect a short-list of candidates for the Archonship, from whic ...
... Formerly, the Council of the Areopagus, which consisted of former Archons, chose the Nine Archons each year – a self-perpetuating system that ensured that the office of Archon was held only by aristocrats. Solon had all of the Athenians elect a short-list of candidates for the Archonship, from whic ...
ThuCyDIDES ON POlICy, STRATEgy, AND WAR TERMINATION
... plague, Thucydides might say) because of a clash of policies that made it impossible for either Athens or Sparta to accept the result of their most recent conflict as final. Their political objectives were fundamentally incompatible. Athens was determined to expand; Sparta was no less determined to ...
... plague, Thucydides might say) because of a clash of policies that made it impossible for either Athens or Sparta to accept the result of their most recent conflict as final. Their political objectives were fundamentally incompatible. Athens was determined to expand; Sparta was no less determined to ...
Thrasyllus Author(s): W. James McCoy Source: The
... Samos.5 If this is true, Thrasyllus was probably there during the winter months, when Alcibiades first began to communicate from Asia Minor with the most influential men of the Athenian fleet.6 But Thrasyllus was not numbered among the ranks of those who conspired against the democratic governments ...
... Samos.5 If this is true, Thrasyllus was probably there during the winter months, when Alcibiades first began to communicate from Asia Minor with the most influential men of the Athenian fleet.6 But Thrasyllus was not numbered among the ranks of those who conspired against the democratic governments ...
THE SO-CALLED DEFENSIVE POLICY OF PERICLES
... On examining the military operations during the first two and a half years of the war, i.e. while Pericles was general,7 some interesting facts can be gleaned from the History of Thucydides. Since Pericles was either himself a leader of such operations, or as strategos directed affairs in Athens, i ...
... On examining the military operations during the first two and a half years of the war, i.e. while Pericles was general,7 some interesting facts can be gleaned from the History of Thucydides. Since Pericles was either himself a leader of such operations, or as strategos directed affairs in Athens, i ...
PERICLES
... The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles' power as an orator. •The Funeral Oration that he has Pericles deliver in honour of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is esp ...
... The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles' power as an orator. •The Funeral Oration that he has Pericles deliver in honour of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is esp ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Day In Old Athens by William
... translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is hoped no reader will b ...
... translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is hoped no reader will b ...
THREE FLEETS OR TWO
... evidently in favour at Athens, so an earlier date than his naval defeat of 388/7 appears to be required. 13 This cuts Chabrias out of the picture, as his expedition came later. Dissatisfied with the identification of the fleet of Lysias 19 with that led by Philocrates, Stylianou proposed that the fl ...
... evidently in favour at Athens, so an earlier date than his naval defeat of 388/7 appears to be required. 13 This cuts Chabrias out of the picture, as his expedition came later. Dissatisfied with the identification of the fleet of Lysias 19 with that led by Philocrates, Stylianou proposed that the fl ...
Illinois classical studies: http://hdl.handle.net/10684
... Rome blew upon the city not just by sea (£vdA.ioq), as that of Athens did, but "from its first creation [it] grew in maturity, in might, and in polity together with the city, and remained constant to it on land and sea, in war and in peace, against foreigners, against Greeks" {Mor. 324B, trans. F. C ...
... Rome blew upon the city not just by sea (£vdA.ioq), as that of Athens did, but "from its first creation [it] grew in maturity, in might, and in polity together with the city, and remained constant to it on land and sea, in war and in peace, against foreigners, against Greeks" {Mor. 324B, trans. F. C ...
Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Pericles
... about the rebuilding of the ruined temples and the policing of the seas; but owing to the refusal of Sparta the project fell through. Pericles may now have hoped to resume his aggressive policy in Greece Proper, but the events of the following years completely disillusioned him. In 447 an Athenian a ...
... about the rebuilding of the ruined temples and the policing of the seas; but owing to the refusal of Sparta the project fell through. Pericles may now have hoped to resume his aggressive policy in Greece Proper, but the events of the following years completely disillusioned him. In 447 an Athenian a ...
The Peace of Nicias - ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
... Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses Williams, Milo Milton, "The Peace of Nicias/" (1977). Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014. 2082. ...
... Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses Williams, Milo Milton, "The Peace of Nicias/" (1977). Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014. 2082. ...
1 Corruption and the Fatal Power of Envy: Revisiting The Classical
... Thucydides says, who became masters of the art of corruption, who corrupted even their chain of signifiers. We might also explore their Athenian hero, Pericles, whom Thucydides calls “incorruptible.” What might we discover about the nature of corruption, conserved in the language of Thucydides’ stor ...
... Thucydides says, who became masters of the art of corruption, who corrupted even their chain of signifiers. We might also explore their Athenian hero, Pericles, whom Thucydides calls “incorruptible.” What might we discover about the nature of corruption, conserved in the language of Thucydides’ stor ...
Pericles with the enemy. In the 4B0s a number
... By the middle of the Sth century Athens had become a radical democrac¡ in which sovereignt¡ or ultimate control over state affairs, rested with the masses. The Athenians, through the initiatives of reformers such as Kleisthenes, Ephialtes and Pericles, had transferred the bulk of their political dec ...
... By the middle of the Sth century Athens had become a radical democrac¡ in which sovereignt¡ or ultimate control over state affairs, rested with the masses. The Athenians, through the initiatives of reformers such as Kleisthenes, Ephialtes and Pericles, had transferred the bulk of their political dec ...
Introduction to Athenian Democracy of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
... Abstract: This essay serves to introduce students to the institutions of the democratic constitution of ancient Athens, during its flowering in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Its principal purpose is to enable students to compare the Athenian democracy with the system established by the U.S. Co ...
... Abstract: This essay serves to introduce students to the institutions of the democratic constitution of ancient Athens, during its flowering in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Its principal purpose is to enable students to compare the Athenian democracy with the system established by the U.S. Co ...
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... translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is hoped no reader will b ...
... translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is hoped no reader will b ...
"Quasi-Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties in
... U.S. history suggests, ad nauseam, if not ad infinitum. The result is a growth of political cynicism on the part of the populus. Government, politics, and the rule of law itself, come to be seen as a side show, occasionally entertaining but generally irritating and largely irrelevant. By contrast, t ...
... U.S. history suggests, ad nauseam, if not ad infinitum. The result is a growth of political cynicism on the part of the populus. Government, politics, and the rule of law itself, come to be seen as a side show, occasionally entertaining but generally irritating and largely irrelevant. By contrast, t ...
Volume I Spring 2000 Number 1 A Journal of Great Books
... but also provided security for its subject states. An empire was necessary to Athenian citizens since it opened up new economic possibilities for Athens, giving them access to new markets for trade. However, this strong economy also increased the standard of living of the empire's citizens. This aro ...
... but also provided security for its subject states. An empire was necessary to Athenian citizens since it opened up new economic possibilities for Athens, giving them access to new markets for trade. However, this strong economy also increased the standard of living of the empire's citizens. This aro ...
1 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN—EAU CLAIRE ARCHIDAMUS
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19 page pdf - The Stoa Consortium
... plausible suit was presumably less since one had only to win one-fih of the votes. A wealthy man, in particular, might be willing to take this gamble, especially if he was seeking to take vengeance on a personal or political enemy as was oen the case. He might view the harm he would do his enemy ( ...
... plausible suit was presumably less since one had only to win one-fih of the votes. A wealthy man, in particular, might be willing to take this gamble, especially if he was seeking to take vengeance on a personal or political enemy as was oen the case. He might view the harm he would do his enemy ( ...
A Democratic Consideration of Herodotus`s Histories
... penalty of execution. Indeed, the very word “freedom,” its equivalents and any concept associated with liberty did not exist in ancient Persia. Democracy’s freedom and the unifying strength fostered by it could have been the very things that Herodotus hoped would inspire non-democratic Greek societi ...
... penalty of execution. Indeed, the very word “freedom,” its equivalents and any concept associated with liberty did not exist in ancient Persia. Democracy’s freedom and the unifying strength fostered by it could have been the very things that Herodotus hoped would inspire non-democratic Greek societi ...
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... Greek world. By the middle of the fifth century BCE, Athens had a naval fleet larger than any other Greek polis had and had enough accessible wealth to be able to pay each citizen a skilled worker’s wage five days a week for over four years.1 It can also be argued that Athenian society was the most ...
... Greek world. By the middle of the fifth century BCE, Athens had a naval fleet larger than any other Greek polis had and had enough accessible wealth to be able to pay each citizen a skilled worker’s wage five days a week for over four years.1 It can also be argued that Athenian society was the most ...
Personalities and the Peloponnesian War: Alcibiades
... to a man like Alcibiades. Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, says that Alcibiades was moreover offended by the Peace of “Nikias” on the grounds that those negotiating it had not thought fit to involve him in the discussions. He therefore set himself to sabotage the peace. When ...
... to a man like Alcibiades. Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, says that Alcibiades was moreover offended by the Peace of “Nikias” on the grounds that those negotiating it had not thought fit to involve him in the discussions. He therefore set himself to sabotage the peace. When ...
PERICLES` RECKLESS MEGARIAN POLICY WAS
... that came to be called the Delian League, although it rapidly evolved into what can only be described as an Athenian Empire. The Athenian hegemony, based upon sea power, came to rub up against the traditional hegemony of land-based Sparta and its Peloponnesian League, a kind of looser alliance with ...
... that came to be called the Delian League, although it rapidly evolved into what can only be described as an Athenian Empire. The Athenian hegemony, based upon sea power, came to rub up against the traditional hegemony of land-based Sparta and its Peloponnesian League, a kind of looser alliance with ...
Professor Lanni`s paper
... External violence, of course, was another matter. Athens’ ability to maintain political stability and social order is all the more impressive given the relentless stress of frequent military conflict during our period. ...
... External violence, of course, was another matter. Athens’ ability to maintain political stability and social order is all the more impressive given the relentless stress of frequent military conflict during our period. ...
Pericles and the challenge of democratic leadership (book
... The name of Pericles conjures up the spirit of classical Athenian democracy; but it also reminds us of the beginning of the great Peloponnesian War that resulted in the demise of Athens. These two facets – the sophistication of the Athenian demos and the destruction brought about by a ruthless, prol ...
... The name of Pericles conjures up the spirit of classical Athenian democracy; but it also reminds us of the beginning of the great Peloponnesian War that resulted in the demise of Athens. These two facets – the sophistication of the Athenian demos and the destruction brought about by a ruthless, prol ...
Trireme
A trireme (derived from Latin: triremis ""with three banks of oars;"" Ancient Greek: τριήρης triērēs, literally ""three-rower"") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars, manned with one man per oar.The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each side (i.e., a double-banked boat), and of the bireme (Greek: διήρης, diērēs), a warship with two banks of oars, probably of Phoenician origin, The word dieres does not appear until the Roman period. ""It must be assumed the term pentekontor covered the two-level type"". As a ship it was fast and agile, and it was the dominant warship in the Mediterranean during the 7th to 4th centuries BC, after which it was largely superseded by the larger quadriremes and quinqueremes. Triremes played a vital role in the Persian Wars, the creation of the Athenian maritime empire, and its downfall in the Peloponnesian War.The term is sometimes also used to refer to medieval and early modern galleys with three files of oarsmen per side as triremes.