POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cimon, Helots, Cephalus
2 Feb 2018
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Vacidities wanted to write a good honest history of what transpired, for the future established family and was connected with cimon (a supporter of the sparton (a cenetor). V was giving a small squadron of ship he was supposed to go save a small colony and failed and so he was punished and exiled for 20 years and came back after the 20 years. Why this is an accurate representation and understanding the motives of the war. He was writing for prosperity and not for the moment that came he wanted to be objective. Fro mthe perspective the war was legitimately perceived as a world war, the war caused enormous destruction of people and property. Equally importantly also reversed the tendency of the trend towards democracy. When athens was powerful and successful its democratic increasing acts of savagery, when it came ot warfare greeks were ruthless. Entire cities were destroyed, the men killed off and women + kids slaves.
