defensive weapon. These emotions can be used to heighten the importance of your priorities and can affect the way they go about collecting information. The information then gathered will directly impact the way we form our beliefs and the need to act. Thucydides believes that fear by the Spartans played an important part in causing the war. Sparta felt threaten by the change in the power balance from Athens due to their imperialistic expansion. Fear can change over to terror‚ which is a more personal form
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professionalism‚ and discarded “generating” a “dialogue” (Conrad) with their contextual audiences. The substantial dissolution between academic and popular historians is evident in a range of sources‚ essentially from Michelle Arrows to Herodotus and Thucydides to Bury. Inaccuracies continue to plague populist histories‚ and as such those within the academic field continue to rebut their rivals with these flaws. They argue that these‚ as Margaret Conrad states‚ “producers” of “historical films” intentionally
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power but helping give the Athenians a voice. This made him a very great political leader as he was able to rid the state of the many problems of dictatorship and oligarchy like corruption which was further emphasized by one of his ancient admirers‚ Thucydides who said‚ ‘he kept himself untainted by corruption‚ although he was not altogether indifferent to money-making’ He ‘excelled all his fellow citizens in skills of oratory’ (Diodorus Siculus) The art of oratory has been a rare skill possessed by
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theme in the Greek documents that we have covered in class. One of the documents that highlights the theme of honor the most is the “Funeral Oration of Pericles Book II”. Thucydides speaks of how great the Athenian culture is and
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Greek Colonisation in the Archaic Period Rachel So-Mahng Truong Yr11 Ancient History The city states of Cyrene and Sicily were founded by the Greeks in ancient times‚ circa 7th century BC. These colonisations were due to the land hunger‚ need for trade‚ overpopulation and political and civil disputes that were prevalent during the time period‚ making it necessary to colonise other parts of the Mediterranean such as the Italian islands and northern Africa. This colonisation also led to changes in
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Strategy involves a collection of decisions. The most obvious decision occurs when the proper authority chooses a course of action. A host of other decisions however surround that choice: how to interpret and predict the decisions of others‚ how to disseminate and implement the plan‚ how to evaluate its progress and adapt to emerging contexts‚ and so on. The strategists who address these subsidiary decisions may lack final approval authority but their influence is still significant. Their deepest
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“They were beaten at all points and altogether; all that they suffered was great; they were destroyed as the saying is with total destruction‚ their fleet‚ their army; everything was destroyed and few out of many returned home.” (Thucydides‚ Peloponnesian War‚ 481) The Sicilian military campaign of Athens proved to be one of the most disastrous military campaigns in ancient times. The loss of thousands of soldiers and sailors‚ hundreds of vessels and vast amounts of money from the treasury reduced
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try to understand the different systems and how they were based. The goal is to analyze some of the different ideologies and find why they were thought to be so good‚ and what made them good. To begin there is Pericles’ Funeral Oration written by Thucydides‚ which documents a speech that Pericles used to address a crowd in Athens‚ comparing Athens to most notably‚ Sparta. It is evident that Athenians were certain that Athens was the greatest‚ “When you realize her greatness‚
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a war in his story the ‘Iliad’‚ are all nice stories yet they can’t actually be proven. But what evidence do we have that could support these mythical legends? Archaeologists such as Calvert‚ Schliemann‚ Dorpfeld‚ Korfmann and historians such as Thucydides have established some provable ground for the Trojan War. Written sources suggesting the Trojan War is real are in scarce amounts‚ the main source is Homers ‘Iliad’. Homers ‘Iliad’ describes Troy as a great city upon a hill across the plain of
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violently and are concerned with self-interest‚ supporting the Athenian’s view of human motivation. In the History of the Peloponnesian War‚ Thucydides gives ample support of this view of human nature. Generally regarded as one of the first true historians‚ he wanted to view the world as it really was and firmly insisted on sticking to the facts. Thucydides subjected human nature to an extremely cold and reductive analysis‚ which could be regarded as pessimism‚ but he considered to be realism. Generally
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