CLASS280 Lecture 11: The Peloponnesian War II
11 Aug 2015
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The peace of nicias to the fall of athens. Armament that sailed for sicily was the costliest and most splendid, belonging to a single city that had ever up to that time set sail. (thuc. Go to war means getting rich (young people wanted to get rich) Rich men afraid of prosecution for avoiding liturgies (plut. Lamachus, alcibiades, and nicias, the three idiots (aristophanes. Winter months (3 months) -> no communication at all (route too dangerous) Hermes statues were assaulted overnight and someone defamed all their gods/goddesses. Private home ->enacting the mysteries of demeter -> a slave said that in the ecclesia but believed it. Apparently he played the priest and a slave girl was the princess. Trialed many people (one person said they were guilty then they were executed) God of roads, traffic, messengers, markets, travellers, transitions, commerce, retail, liars, cheaters etc. Associated with the cult of demeter and core.
