CLA 1101 Lecture 20: Lecture 20
29 Mar 2017
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Reading: (c/f 141) (chi) is for choregic monument/1000 (xilioi) Threatened to have family kidnapped and murder the men if one did not jion. H = 100 talents= 2500kg of silver o. Athens was the head of soon to be athenian empire. Thucydides: pioneered writing history in chronological order, did not finish. Xenophon: completed last 7 years of war. Aristophanes: interviewed people who fought in other battles, creating drawings of the war. Spartan strategy: annual invasion, attack when crops began to grow (spring, destoryed crops and drew a land battle. Population is protected behind the long wall: wants to avoid battle. Plague: typhoid fever, 25% of population dies. Death of perikles: sympotoms: vomiting, diarrhea, intense thirst. Sphakteria (425/4 bce: 400 spartans on island, stranded, 292 survived, forced to surrender (humiliating, taken to athens and help as hostages, boost for athens because then atica cannot be invaded, threatening the lives of. Alcibiades (playboy, general, traitor: major debt.
