Thucydides (English Summary)
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Peloponnesian War - (correct Answer) - *431 - 404 BC*
Structure of Book 1 - (correct Answer) - *2-29*: Archeology (Minos, Agamemnon, Mycenae, Trojan War,
etc) => nothing to do with archeology (ancient history)
*20-23*: Historical Method
*24-65*: Causes of the war (Epidamnus 435 BC, Corcyra 433 BC, Potidaea 432 BC)
*66-88*: Debate at Sparta and Declaration of War (Spartan king Archidamus)
Funeral Oration - (correct Answer) - -Themes? (vs occasion)
-Purpose? (of Pericles, of Thucydides
-Bragging to Athenians about Athens
-Represent Athens in golden terms
-Painting Athens as an amazing place
Occasion - (correct Answer) - -Eulogy for soldiers fallen during 1st year of campaign
Plague - (correct Answer) - 1.) Epidemiology
2.) Useful
3.) Moral implications
4.) Doesn't correspond to any known disease
5.) Pericles died of plague
6.) Thucydides had it and survived
, Epidemiology - (correct Answer) - -Observation of symptoms (scientific approach, inductive)
Debate over Mytilene - (correct Answer) - *428-427 BC* Revolt in Mytilene (Lesbos: Athenian ally
supplying ships, not tribute)
-What punishment is appropriate?
Cleon's Argument in Mytilene - (correct Answer) - -Put adult male population to death, enslave women
and children
1.) Act from anger
2.) Punish to deter other allies
3.) "Your empire is a tyranny"
Diodotus' Argument in Mytilene - (correct Answer) - -Spare the demos
-Do what is most useful: secure future revenue
-Don't act out of pity/decent feelings
Melian Dialogue - (correct Answer) - *416/5 BC*
-Dialogue written like a play (no 'he said' or names of individual speakers)
-"Might makes right" (Athenians) vs fair play (Melians)
-"No fine phrases" (no propaganda) => make arguments from self-interest
-Hope vs. realism
-Previously did not have people talking to each other
-Effect of dialogue => suggests play/tragedy with 2 actors occupying different positions
-Athenians: "You guys [Melos] are weak. Let's just think about what's good for us and good for you. If we
subjugate you and you'll be alive."
-Melians: If you subjugate us, people might do this to you too => Athenians say let us worry about that
Melians - (correct Answer) - -Colony from Sparta
-Inclined to be in alliance with Peloponnesian League
-Island => Athenians wanted to control sea
-Melos
-Became hostile because Athenians sacked their land
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Peloponnesian War - (correct Answer) - *431 - 404 BC*
Structure of Book 1 - (correct Answer) - *2-29*: Archeology (Minos, Agamemnon, Mycenae, Trojan War,
etc) => nothing to do with archeology (ancient history)
*20-23*: Historical Method
*24-65*: Causes of the war (Epidamnus 435 BC, Corcyra 433 BC, Potidaea 432 BC)
*66-88*: Debate at Sparta and Declaration of War (Spartan king Archidamus)
Funeral Oration - (correct Answer) - -Themes? (vs occasion)
-Purpose? (of Pericles, of Thucydides
-Bragging to Athenians about Athens
-Represent Athens in golden terms
-Painting Athens as an amazing place
Occasion - (correct Answer) - -Eulogy for soldiers fallen during 1st year of campaign
Plague - (correct Answer) - 1.) Epidemiology
2.) Useful
3.) Moral implications
4.) Doesn't correspond to any known disease
5.) Pericles died of plague
6.) Thucydides had it and survived
, Epidemiology - (correct Answer) - -Observation of symptoms (scientific approach, inductive)
Debate over Mytilene - (correct Answer) - *428-427 BC* Revolt in Mytilene (Lesbos: Athenian ally
supplying ships, not tribute)
-What punishment is appropriate?
Cleon's Argument in Mytilene - (correct Answer) - -Put adult male population to death, enslave women
and children
1.) Act from anger
2.) Punish to deter other allies
3.) "Your empire is a tyranny"
Diodotus' Argument in Mytilene - (correct Answer) - -Spare the demos
-Do what is most useful: secure future revenue
-Don't act out of pity/decent feelings
Melian Dialogue - (correct Answer) - *416/5 BC*
-Dialogue written like a play (no 'he said' or names of individual speakers)
-"Might makes right" (Athenians) vs fair play (Melians)
-"No fine phrases" (no propaganda) => make arguments from self-interest
-Hope vs. realism
-Previously did not have people talking to each other
-Effect of dialogue => suggests play/tragedy with 2 actors occupying different positions
-Athenians: "You guys [Melos] are weak. Let's just think about what's good for us and good for you. If we
subjugate you and you'll be alive."
-Melians: If you subjugate us, people might do this to you too => Athenians say let us worry about that
Melians - (correct Answer) - -Colony from Sparta
-Inclined to be in alliance with Peloponnesian League
-Island => Athenians wanted to control sea
-Melos
-Became hostile because Athenians sacked their land
