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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for the Aristotelian material‚ analyzation of Thucydides’ description of the advanced stages of stasis at Kerkyra is essential. There are five generic themes characteristic of stasis‚ including the rhetorical replacement of common values by values of private interest‚ the use of terror and fraud to satisfy desires for honor (philotimia) and unfair gain (pleonexia)‚ and the unfettered passions that generally rule a state convulse by stasis. Thucydides’ historical account of Kerkyra shows stasis to
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The Greeks most important values and ideas to their culture is a deeper meaning‚ rising above‚ problem-solving‚ intellectuality. The Greece civilization could have created their own empire‚ but instead of creating that empire‚ the Greeks decided it would be a clever idea to fight with one another. The Greeks had struggled with hardship such as external forces that would threaten human life. The internal human choices caused suffering as well with unhappiness. Additionally‚ the gods had already made
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this outcome: Strategic and Tactical Failures: Athens committed several significant strategic and tactical errors during the course of the war. The decision to launch the Sicilian Expedition stands out as one of the most notable. As chronicled by Thucydides‚ this campaign overextended the resources of Athens and ultimately culminated in a disastrous defeat. This grave miscalculation served to substantially undermine both the military strength and the morale of Athens. Internal Political Strife: Athens
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With reference to sources‚ what does the evidence reveal about Spartan cultural life? There were many different aspects to the Spartan cultural life which ancient sources and evidence have provided insight and knowledge for our modern societies. These features include art‚ architecture‚ writing and literature‚ and Greek writer’s views of Sparta. The Spartan cultural life also gives us knowledge into other aspects of Spartan life and the society in which they lived. Architecture was one of the essential
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