CLASSIC 36B Final: 36 Final review guide
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Athenian statesman who lived 490 429 bce. The age of pericles was a golden age of athenian civilization, during which time the parthenon was constructed on the acropolis. Pericles died of a plague that hit athens during the first couple years of the. His funeral oration is recorded by the athenian historian. Strepsiades is fed up with his son pheidippides for incurring gambling debt. He desires that his son become educated in rhetoric in oratory, in order to argue out of his debt, and is thus interested in sending pheidippides to be educated by socarates at the thinkery. The last major battle of the peloponnesian war in 405 bce. The battle was fought between the athenian fleet and the spartan admiral. Athens relied on trade with the black sea for sustaining its food supply. By jeopardizing the hellespont, lysander forced the athenians to respond and destroyed their navy in the process. Athenian philosopher who lived 470/469 399 bce.
