CLASSIC 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Peloponnesian League, Delian League, Athenian Democracy
Document Summary
The start of the peloponnesian war and pericles" funeral oration. Thucydides = primary source for this war is it really saying what its saying. Delian league (athens and its allies) versus peloponnesian league (sparta and its allies) First phase: 431-421 bce -> archidamian war. Lead athenians at battle and loss criticized and excited. Claims to have written at the very outbreak of the war. Wanted to magnify the importance of this war compared to any other war. Downplays other wars like the trojan war. Knew it would be the greatest movement of people. Writes this while at exile; removed from action and principal places of athens. Famous in set of contrast where thucydides and. Thucydides works analytically, works by the year. Became a hero or a person of great interest to conservative intellectual people. Does not talk about omens, oracles, or anything related to gods. Proto-modern: anticipates ways of telling history now.
