CLST 404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Alcibiades, Rhamnous, Temple Of Hephaestus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 404
• Professor: Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Last class, we discussed more of the buildings that are supposedly built (although there are varying opinions among scholars) in the age of pericles. Sometimes we have inscriptions that can help us. Who were the workers involved in the construction. Some myths can be read in one way or another. Or can be used with different purposes by different factions of a city. After this, the athenians and spartans alternate in victory of skirmishes and fights. 423 death of kleon and brasidas, truce between athens and sparta. This truce doesn"t last for a long time. They established a period of a truce that should last for a longer time. Thebans started to become more and more powerful. The athenians and the spartans try to get thebans as their allies, and this brings conflict. One of the most unsuccessful expeditions in history. Syracuse was on the side of silinous, which was against the city of egesta in.