CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Delian League, First Peloponnesian War, Greco-Persian Wars
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History of greece and civilizaion is characterized by compeiion for power and fear of the powerful. Fear played a greater part than loyalty to the raising of the expediion against troy. Thucydides" model for human behaviour: self-interest governs the acions of people and states; but that doesn"t mean their calculaions are always correct or reliable. Does not say that acing out of fear or pursuit of power is a good thing, but actually gets people in trouble all of the ime. People acted out of impulse, and thus things would go wrong. In invesigaing past history, and in forming the conclusions which i have formed, it must be admited that one cannot rely on every detail which has come down to us by way of tradiion . Most people in athens, for instance, are under the impression that hipparchus, who was killed by harmodius and aristogeiton, was tyrant at the ime .
