Thucydides. “The Melian Debate”
... He likely wrote The Peloponnesian War during the years of exile, from which he returned only four years before his death. Book Five, Chapter 7: Sixteenth Year of War. The Melian Debate. The fleet of Athens dispatched thirty ships and support troops to the island of Melos, which had been settled by S ...
... He likely wrote The Peloponnesian War during the years of exile, from which he returned only four years before his death. Book Five, Chapter 7: Sixteenth Year of War. The Melian Debate. The fleet of Athens dispatched thirty ships and support troops to the island of Melos, which had been settled by S ...
Preview - American Economic Association
... Lindahl – in which voting on whether to provide a public good can work well or badly, depending on whether voters share the public good’s costs and benefits in a manner close to or far from the Lindahl prescription. Under some conditions, it is feasible to design political institutions that compleme ...
... Lindahl – in which voting on whether to provide a public good can work well or badly, depending on whether voters share the public good’s costs and benefits in a manner close to or far from the Lindahl prescription. Under some conditions, it is feasible to design political institutions that compleme ...
“Is there an exit strategy from a preventive war? The opposing cases
... “grand strategy”, becomes extremely elusive in the literature4) I find for the purpose of this study the distinction between “pure” and “grand” strategy made by L. Hart quite satisfactory: “pure strategy was still the art of the general. But the role of grand strategy was to coordinate and direct al ...
... “grand strategy”, becomes extremely elusive in the literature4) I find for the purpose of this study the distinction between “pure” and “grand” strategy made by L. Hart quite satisfactory: “pure strategy was still the art of the general. But the role of grand strategy was to coordinate and direct al ...
Chapter 2 : The Rise of Greek Civilization
... 44. Archons served for only a year and were checked by their colleagues, as they looked forward to a lifetime as a member of the ____________, the true master of the Athens state. (Answer: Areopagus, page 54) [Factual] 45. Examine the sacrifices made by Spartan men and women in their powerful commit ...
... 44. Archons served for only a year and were checked by their colleagues, as they looked forward to a lifetime as a member of the ____________, the true master of the Athens state. (Answer: Areopagus, page 54) [Factual] 45. Examine the sacrifices made by Spartan men and women in their powerful commit ...
A Note on Ithome - Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
... me not only fantastically over-neat but also rather ridiculous to insist (1) that only one thing can happen at a time, so that events occur like beads on a string one after another, with no action taken on the lthome front till after the Thasian Revolt was tidied away; and (2) that after the Lacedae ...
... me not only fantastically over-neat but also rather ridiculous to insist (1) that only one thing can happen at a time, so that events occur like beads on a string one after another, with no action taken on the lthome front till after the Thasian Revolt was tidied away; and (2) that after the Lacedae ...
Week 8: The Athenian Empire
... Hundred (Boule) makes tribute assessments after 454; assessments made in four-year intervals at Great Panathenaia in July; tributary cities send envoys to festival; payments due in March before the celebration of the City Dionysia, money counted out in presence of council and given to the Hellenotam ...
... Hundred (Boule) makes tribute assessments after 454; assessments made in four-year intervals at Great Panathenaia in July; tributary cities send envoys to festival; payments due in March before the celebration of the City Dionysia, money counted out in presence of council and given to the Hellenotam ...
- Enlighten: Theses
... and Sparta were moulded by the societies of which they were members. The question will be tackled by looking at various different aspects of society, not simply by focusing on explicitly military practices. The study will attempt to be take a broad approach to the subject and will examine aspects of ...
... and Sparta were moulded by the societies of which they were members. The question will be tackled by looking at various different aspects of society, not simply by focusing on explicitly military practices. The study will attempt to be take a broad approach to the subject and will examine aspects of ...
Thucydides [from Encyclopedia of Social Measurement]
... Sparta began the war out of fear, Thucydides also notes that the Spartans were compelled by the Corinthians to oppose Athenian injustices at Potidæa (I, 71). The Athenians, for their part, argued that they were obligated to acquire and expand their empire out of fear of external threats, despite the ...
... Sparta began the war out of fear, Thucydides also notes that the Spartans were compelled by the Corinthians to oppose Athenian injustices at Potidæa (I, 71). The Athenians, for their part, argued that they were obligated to acquire and expand their empire out of fear of external threats, despite the ...
Etruscans - Astra Edu Library
... corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio. As distinguished by its unique language, this civilization endured from before the time of the earliest Etruscan inscriptions (c. 700 BC) until its assimilation into the Roman Republic, beginning in the late 4th century BC with th ...
... corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio. As distinguished by its unique language, this civilization endured from before the time of the earliest Etruscan inscriptions (c. 700 BC) until its assimilation into the Roman Republic, beginning in the late 4th century BC with th ...
World History to the Sixteenth Century, Grade 11, University/College Preparation
... god/goddess benefit every social class? If not, who benefits the most and who benefits the least? How does that affect each group’s relationship with one another? Then assign each pair the role of one of the social classes for either Athens or Sparta. Ask students to imagine they had the freedom to ...
... god/goddess benefit every social class? If not, who benefits the most and who benefits the least? How does that affect each group’s relationship with one another? Then assign each pair the role of one of the social classes for either Athens or Sparta. Ask students to imagine they had the freedom to ...
Christopher Smith
... However, in The Acharnians, Aristophanes offers no honorable solution to the war. Several years later though, he does write Lysistrata, another peace comedy that represents just how difficult an Athenian-Spartan peace treaty would be to achieve. But while no attempt to reach a treaty is made, privat ...
... However, in The Acharnians, Aristophanes offers no honorable solution to the war. Several years later though, he does write Lysistrata, another peace comedy that represents just how difficult an Athenian-Spartan peace treaty would be to achieve. But while no attempt to reach a treaty is made, privat ...
Sample Historical Text Analysis: Pericles`s Funeral Oration
... magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the injured…” What Pericles described just now was Aristotle’s idea about the evolution of humanity reaching the status of the “polis,” or state. The point that Pericles made about how everyone respects the security and law of A ...
... magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the injured…” What Pericles described just now was Aristotle’s idea about the evolution of humanity reaching the status of the “polis,” or state. The point that Pericles made about how everyone respects the security and law of A ...
12/09/2004 Steve Fredette Final Paper Ancient Greece The Center
... an example of the Greeks caming together for a common cause. As one of the four great panhellenic sanctuaries where festivals and athletic games took place (the others were Nemea, Isthmia and Olympia), Delphi saw people pour into the city every four years. The games brought contestants and spectato ...
... an example of the Greeks caming together for a common cause. As one of the four great panhellenic sanctuaries where festivals and athletic games took place (the others were Nemea, Isthmia and Olympia), Delphi saw people pour into the city every four years. The games brought contestants and spectato ...
The Athenian Empire (478-404 BC)
... obscures them. I suggest that this is not because the evidence is inadequate (though it certainly has its problems), but because ancient historians have been quite content to continue asking the same questions that were popular in the nineteenth century. As a result, there has not been much reason t ...
... obscures them. I suggest that this is not because the evidence is inadequate (though it certainly has its problems), but because ancient historians have been quite content to continue asking the same questions that were popular in the nineteenth century. As a result, there has not been much reason t ...
FREE Sample Here
... 41. Sparta’s unique board of __________ consisted of five men elected annually by the assembly who, besides many other functions, controlled foreign policy. (Answer: ephors, page 45) 42. Many political philosophers, from __________ to modern times, have based utopian schemes on a version of Sparta’s ...
... 41. Sparta’s unique board of __________ consisted of five men elected annually by the assembly who, besides many other functions, controlled foreign policy. (Answer: ephors, page 45) 42. Many political philosophers, from __________ to modern times, have based utopian schemes on a version of Sparta’s ...
Stage 2 Classical Studies Assessment Type 3: Special Study
... most thorough and essentially credible primary source that is available. As long as these faults and biases are taken into consideration, Thucydides' explanation of the factors that influenced the Athenians' decision to pursue the Sicilian expedition continues to inform historians. Marxist historian ...
... most thorough and essentially credible primary source that is available. As long as these faults and biases are taken into consideration, Thucydides' explanation of the factors that influenced the Athenians' decision to pursue the Sicilian expedition continues to inform historians. Marxist historian ...
FREE Sample Here
... 41. Sparta’s unique board of __________ consisted of five men elected annually by the assembly who, besides many other functions, controlled foreign policy. (Answer: ephors, page 45) 42. Many political philosophers, from __________ to modern times, have based utopian schemes on a version of Sparta’s ...
... 41. Sparta’s unique board of __________ consisted of five men elected annually by the assembly who, besides many other functions, controlled foreign policy. (Answer: ephors, page 45) 42. Many political philosophers, from __________ to modern times, have based utopian schemes on a version of Sparta’s ...
Athenian Imperialism June 2014
... to hate us; strength will win; good will is a weakness; Mytilene is in the wrong (overarrogant); too much talking; Athens must take harsh action; Athens has shown leniency to the Mytilenians, yet they have rebelled; others will follow their example if they see them get away with it; no room for comp ...
... to hate us; strength will win; good will is a weakness; Mytilene is in the wrong (overarrogant); too much talking; Athens must take harsh action; Athens has shown leniency to the Mytilenians, yet they have rebelled; others will follow their example if they see them get away with it; no room for comp ...
Finding the Truth: An Examination into the Use of Rhetoric in
... Debate — will show this relationship. Numerous scholars have questioned the narrative of Thucydides and scrutiny still persists to this day. It is important to note that The History of the Peloponnesian War is history. Thucydides’ work was first and foremost a new genre of literature taking shape in ...
... Debate — will show this relationship. Numerous scholars have questioned the narrative of Thucydides and scrutiny still persists to this day. It is important to note that The History of the Peloponnesian War is history. Thucydides’ work was first and foremost a new genre of literature taking shape in ...
Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος Θανάτου Κύρι
... Themistocles entered Athenian politics by siding with the democrats. In 493 BC he was elected archon, and then he accomplished the completion of Athens’ military and especially naval preparation. Thanks to him, in 481 BC representatives from all the Greek cities met at the Isthmus, where it was deci ...
... Themistocles entered Athenian politics by siding with the democrats. In 493 BC he was elected archon, and then he accomplished the completion of Athens’ military and especially naval preparation. Thanks to him, in 481 BC representatives from all the Greek cities met at the Isthmus, where it was deci ...
An Examination into the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides
... Debate — will show this relationship. Numerous scholars have questioned the narrative of Thucydides and scrutiny still persists to this day. It is important to note that The History of the Peloponnesian War is history. Thucydides’ work was first and foremost a new genre of literature taking shape in ...
... Debate — will show this relationship. Numerous scholars have questioned the narrative of Thucydides and scrutiny still persists to this day. It is important to note that The History of the Peloponnesian War is history. Thucydides’ work was first and foremost a new genre of literature taking shape in ...
Divine Deliverance A New Look at Euripidean Tragedy
... goes against scholarly consensus regarding the reading of Euripides’ works, because they operate through the narrowed lens of anti-war sentiment. I argue that the examination of viewer interpretation is very important because authorial intent does not reflect the impact of work if the audience rece ...
... goes against scholarly consensus regarding the reading of Euripides’ works, because they operate through the narrowed lens of anti-war sentiment. I argue that the examination of viewer interpretation is very important because authorial intent does not reflect the impact of work if the audience rece ...
Sparta - WordPress.com
... itself, or in one of the five villages from which Sparta was formed? But their existence has always been one of the more obviously ‘communistic’ aspects of the Spartan system, with analogies in primitive tribal societies. When did this Spartan system come into being? In Classical times, it was fashi ...
... itself, or in one of the five villages from which Sparta was formed? But their existence has always been one of the more obviously ‘communistic’ aspects of the Spartan system, with analogies in primitive tribal societies. When did this Spartan system come into being? In Classical times, it was fashi ...
The Plague of Athens: Epidemiology and Paleopathology
... Health and disease have played an important part in human religion and history. Although our conquest of disease has extended the modern lifespan to 78 years in the Western world versus 25 to 35 years in the ancient world, we are still frightened by and concerned with plagues. In the modern world, e ...
... Health and disease have played an important part in human religion and history. Although our conquest of disease has extended the modern lifespan to 78 years in the Western world versus 25 to 35 years in the ancient world, we are still frightened by and concerned with plagues. In the modern world, e ...
Thucydides and Political Order
... course of the Peloponnesian War. However, whereas Baltrusch is convinced that Thucydides believed that the Athenians could have, and should have acted differently, Ned Lebow connects the reasons for such Athenian contempt to the structural forces of modernization. In his view, the rapid growth of At ...
... course of the Peloponnesian War. However, whereas Baltrusch is convinced that Thucydides believed that the Athenians could have, and should have acted differently, Ned Lebow connects the reasons for such Athenian contempt to the structural forces of modernization. In his view, the rapid growth of At ...