CLASSIC 10 Lecture 21: The Middle of the Peloponnesian War
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(cid:343)the grea lawlessness that grew everywhere in the city began wit this disease, for, as the rich s ddenly died and men previo sly wor h no hing ook over heir es a es (cid:344) Moral plague - a kind of anarchy that takes over that people no longer value their lives, or. Hey don" val e hings he way hey did before. Reversals (metabol ) - tremendous reversal of wealth. Ephermeral - life is reduced to just one day almost morally. Dialect of plague - informs people"s behavior in he war - lawlessness. Thucydides focus on justice and the powerful. Cautions the readers to be wary of. Patterns of narrative in thucydides - create historic juxtaposition for readers. Revolt comes from city state mytilene only contributing ships but not money to the delian. Fear - extracted, might be taken away. Sparta promised to send help to mytilene - help never materialized. Mytilene forced to surrender back to athens.
