POLS 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Siege Of Melos, Delian League, Social Science

• School: Temple University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1301
• Professor: Sarah S.Bush

Document Summary

Thucydides: the first social scientist, goal: to create a possession of all time and account exact knowledge of the past in an unromanticized way. Timeline: earlier in the 5th century bce: war breaks out between persia and greece rise of the. 460-445 bce: athens and sparta agree to a truce after the first phase of the athens-sparta war. 430 bce: pericles" death permits the rise of cleon and alcibiades in athens. 421 bce: athens and sparta sign a peace treaty. 416 bce: athens attacks melos melian dialogue. 415 bce: true breaks down athenians launch sicilian expeditions. 404 bce: athens is defeated, but sparta imposes a lenient peace to avoid a power vacuum. Spartans put down tyranny in the rest of greece: spartans have maintained their democratic government for 400 years which fact they used to justify intervening in other states" affairs. Sparta and athens split from hellas and became enemies: war began when athens and pelops broke the 30-year truce.