CLASSIC 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pus, Tropical Year, Apostasy
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Thucydides, when writing about the plague of athens, does not talk about the aftermath of the plague, which means there"s another reason why he wrote about it. Thucydides talks about disease in general, not individual patients. Thucydides may have been trying to make sense of his own experience of suffering the disease by transferring it over to the whole city. The particular patient he writes about while describing the disease is the city of athens. This can also be thucydides" attempt to understand himself. The plague coupled with the war contributes to a breakdown of. The citizens tend to behave illegally when they are desparate. When the spartans go to war with athenians, citizens tend to ally with. Spartans or athenians and hope that the group they are allied with will help them get power. The best can be the wealthy, military (highly prized in sparta). However, the most common answer would be themselves.
