CLAS 1270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sicilian Expedition, Athenian Democracy, Retching

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1270
• Professor: Nau Robert

Document Summary

Athens lost the war because sparta adapted. Athenians lost because of the plague in athens: everyone was inside athens, pericles died as well. Athenians over extended themselves: 421 bc - peace between athens and sparta. Instead of recovery - athens took over sicily: athens lost 2 armies in sicily. Not able to stop the spartans after that. Cant eat on fleets have to shore - spartans found the athenians on short by chance. Symptoms and progression: violent heats in the head, redness and inflammation of eyes. Inward parts - throat/tongue - became bloody, emitting a unnatural and fetud breath: sneezing and hoarseness, pain in chest - hard rough cough, stomach discharge of bile. External - hot to the touch, reddish, livid, covered in small pustules and ulcers. Went into water tanks - those were the water for the city. First impression: by fast the most costly and splendid hellenic sent out by a city.