Andy Smith HCC-101 September 22‚ 2011 Writing assignment #1: Summarize and analyze Pericles’ speech‚ as recounted by Thucydides. In Thucydides‚ “The Funeral Oration of Pericles”‚ I will analyze and summarize the excerpts used within our primary source course packet to comment upon the core questions of being human‚ having purpose‚ the natural world and the just society that was created by the great civilization of Athens. The oration that Pericles delivers at the funeral for the fallen
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Thucydides book the History of the Peloponnesian War is a well written work of art. It is lacking a bit when it comes to historical accuracy but still has historical uses. It is an interesting and fun book to read but is lacking when is comes to specific events and speeches. Thucydides had to give up historical accuracies to create a long lasting book. He admits that he would like his book to last through the ages. "My work is not designed to meet the taste of the immediate public‚ but was
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the weak simply accept what they are told. According to him‚ international relations usually allows the individuals considered as mighty to do what they please‚ and force the weak individuals to suffer in turn. One of the attributes of Greek that Thucydides brings out in his description of the Peloponnesian war is that in the city state‚ the laws and customs usually existed with the aim of treating the powerful and the weak equally. In conclusion‚ it is evident that the civilization of Greece can
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Thucydides was a Greek historian who‚ throughout his life‚ documented the Peloponnesian war. Around 431 B.C. Thucydides documented a funeral oration delivered to the people of Athens by Pericles. In Pericles’ Funeral Oration‚ Pericles’ praises the dead‚ describes how great Athens is‚ explains why Athens must continue to support the war‚ and tells why Athens must live up to the fallen soldiers of the Peloponnesian war. Pericles’ Funeral Oration tells us multiple things‚ the Funeral Oration gives historians
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References: Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles ’ Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46) Retrieved on April 8‚ 2012 from‚ http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.asp
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The aims and purpose of history can be evaluated through the study of historians and their audiences. The differing methods of collecting and using sources and evidence has caused countless debates between historians and other academics from Herodotus‚ the ’Father of History’ to G.R Elton and his views on objective truth. Similarly Stuart Macintyre’s "The Historian’s Conscience" debates and discusses the issues surrounding evidence‚ time and motives of historians. The aim of history according to
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Kavon Nowroozi Honors English 10 20 November 2012 Freedom vs. Survival in The Melian Dialogue The Melian Dialogue‚ written by Thucydides‚ is an account of the confrontation between the people of Melos and the people of Athens. Melos was a small island off the southeastern coast of Greece that tried to remain independent and neutral during the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians wanted to gain control of Melos in order to intimidate the Spartans. The theme of freedom vs. survival is evident throughout
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about the relationship between strong and weak states‚ and between power and morality David Greer Thucydides can be seen as the first great Historian‚ and his "history of the Peloponnesian war"� is said to be the catalyst of the realist tradition. A question often asked‚ is whether Thucydides is a realist or not? He is merely recording a realist opinion? To answer the question‚ lets look at what Thucydides himself says. "And as for the real action of the war‚ I did not think it was right to set down
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The realist approach to international relations has its roots in the state ’s pursuit of power and the outright importance of the state above all else. Realism states that international relations should not be studied as how things should be but as how they are. We can distinguish between the ’economic person ’‚ the ’religious person ’‚ the ’moral person ’‚ the ’political person ’ etc. In order to understand politics‚ we must study only the ’political person ’ for example we should study the
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The history of international relations is often traced back to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648‚ where the modern state system was developed. Prior to this‚ the European medieval organization of political authority was based on a vaguely hierarchical religious order. Westphalia instituted the legal concept of sovereignty‚ which essentially meant that rulers‚ or the legitimate sovereigns‚ would recognize no internal equals within a defined territory and no external superiors as the ultimate authority
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