CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 5: Pentekontaetia and the Peloponnesian War
13 Dec 2017
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Sources: one again, male writers from a social elite who are concerned with politics, thucydides like herodotus he also wrote the history, athenian strategos (general, he participates in the events he writes about much different than, plutarch. Turkey and drive more persian"s out: 479: greek expeditionary force, 478: byzantium the city where they head led by sparta as usual, pausanias of sparta (general who won a lot) athenians clame him of. Medizing: medizing this means that at some point you have supported or gone. We have no more need for the league because we moved out the perisnas from. Athens and sparta: cimon (conservative, traditional he wants to be friends with sparta) vs. Themistocles (he says to hell with sparta we don"t need them anymore he likes democracy and is violent opposed to oligarchy) the people are divided between these two people: cooperation vs. competition.
