CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Sicilian Expedition, Greco-Persian Wars, Decelea
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No flow or momentum like herodotus" writing. Greater goals, work that will be long lasting & an aid (history is a cycle) Always uses speech, like a drama: he made up all speeches, didn"t always know what was said, not always recorded. Funeral speech of pericles as example of reported speech. Analysis of athenian plague: symptoms and consequences, answers pericles" questions, cf. Hippocratic corpus gathering of different text by hippocrates, doctors who examined the bodies in the way hippocrates would. The melian debate: athenians trying to persuade melos to join alliance and killing all men, enslaving women and children when they refuse (cf. Athenian culture: refresh from business, games and sacrifices all the year round, city"s magnitude attracts business, fruits of other cities (brought skilled workers) Politics: ordinary citizens fair judges of public matters, ready for any events, oligarchs and socrates were nervous about it b/c didn"t feel they were educated, trained for this.
