CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Long Walls, Haemon, Anatolia
2 Dec 2012
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Exam: second half of second persian war, theatre, philosophy, delian league, pelonesian league, etc. Because sparta wasn"t really prepared to go to war with athens and athens didn"t want to go to war with sparta, they decided to stick to their own regions. In 431, sparta decides to fight the athenians; this is when the peloponnesian war arises. When wars were fought, they were usually decided within a day (or season), but the. Peloponnesian war lasted for 27 years! (very different war) comprehensive war: this will leave southern greece exhausted and vulnerable to attack (from the north) Herodotus was very curious (interested in what a country was like, how people dressed, etc. : he was a rationalist. Make an example out of them (men put to death, and women and children put into slavery) Diodotus: disagrees with this, but doesn"t know if this is the best thing to do. For them (always think about how they benefit)
