HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Long Walls, Insead, Equal Opportunity
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Process of educating man into his true form, the real and genuine human nature. Ideal of universal culture originated in the civilization of greece and rome. Try to use democracy and foreign policy to help countries. Criticizes herodotus for interlacing divine explanations into his records of the persian. Thucydides look for a more humanist view. Made allies continue to pay them silver. Sparta and its allies were on the peloponnesian peninsula. Sparta= land power, athens = sea power. Built walls around athens and all the way down to piraeus, the port. Can feed people from trade/ocean and still be protected. At the same time, athenian army would sail to sparta land and fuck shit up while. Spartans unsuccessfully try to lay seize to athens. Said the heroes deeds speak for themselves. Him going to the speech doesn"t make them better. Does not honor how the soldies died.
