Alcibiades was a very skilled general -“his conduct of the war was excellent” (Thucydides‚ 6.15) - but he felt no loyalty to his soldiers or his country- “Alcibiades‚ when he laid down his command after his recall and realized he was going to be exiled‚ had given information about the plot‚ in which he was concerned himself‚ to the pro-Syracusans party in Messina” (Thucydides‚ 6.74). He betrayed the devoted soldiers‚ who “had openly declared that it was only on Alcibiades’ account
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can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230‚000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean. The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in 426 BC that tsunamis were related to submarine
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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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happen inevitably. Walzer takes the stance that there is freedom of choice for states to engage in war‚ rather than war being an inevitable occurrence. In his argument‚ Walzer gives the account of the Peloponnesian War according to the writings of Thucydides‚ a realist. In this re-telling‚ there are two Athenian generals that determine it is “necessary” that Athens establishes rule in Melos (a Spartan state)‚ in order to preserve order and avoid put an end to the rebellion there. They rationalize that
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Athens the Instigator “If we do go to war‚ have no thought that you went to war over a trivial affair” (Thucydides‚ in Hunt 101). The Peloponnesian War lasted longer than any other pervious war in Greece. The war began in 431 BCE with Sparta’s invasion of Athens. The Athenians sacrificed the destruction of their private property in order to hide in the safety of their city. The Long Walls of Athens protected its citizens and preserved its population. The Spartans however had the upper hand in infantry
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ability to judge the rightness of a given action from among possible alternatives on the basis of its likely political consequences. Realism encompasses a variety of approaches and claims a long theoretical tradition. Among its founding fathers‚ Thucydides‚ Machiavelli and Hobbes are the names most
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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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