CLAA04H3 Lecture Notes - Sicilian Expedition, Socratic Method, Euripides
Document Summary
We have more information about ancient athens because they gave us the largest body (corpus) of literary work. This is not even because they literally wrote more books. Athenian were judged to be better" by scholars and they lasted until today because everyone was reading them. The canon": a group of books that were considered necessary to know". The first of these canons may have been created by dionysus of halicarnassus. Was an attack by the athenians against the sicilians; was a complete failure on behalf of athenians. Quite a few athenians were captured alive: some executed right away, some were left in stone quaries to die of heat exhaustion, starvation etc. Alcibiades was in sparta, helping the spartan army. He suggested building a fort at decelalia, a border between athenian and. Fort was built, allowing spartans to attack athens year-round. This would have continued because sparta really had no ways to breach the walls that surrounded athens.
