GTBOOKS 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peloponnesian War, Scheria, Sophocles
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Knowledge matters more in our political world than it did for people in sophocles time. Other danger: nobel disease: tendency of people who know some things to think that they know everything, danger of intellectual arrogance that antagonizes other people. Thucydides account of just how bad politics can get. Corcyra: island now known as corfu, off west coast of greece: place people though the phaeacians had been during this time, was a colony of the commercial city of corinth, but it always had bad relations with. Corinth: corinth was allied with sparta, one of the causes of the peloponnesian war was a dispute between corcyra and. Thucydides generally assumes that people seek their own self-interest. The rich want to restrict political participation and the poor want to have power. The rich are fewer but they have better weapons and they can hire mercenaries. You do not have a state with overwhelming military power in these ancient times, but we do.