CLAB05H3 Chapter 8: Greece chapter 8
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Sources for greece during the peloponnesian war: thucydides" history is the principal source of the war, the workings of athenian democracy were explored in a pamphlet called the constitution of the. The archidamian war(431-421bc: this is the only portion of the war in which any part was played by the man who was most closely associated with the athenians" decision to ght, since pericles died in 429 bc. The periclean strategy and the plague: pericles conceived the war as defensive, harassing the peloponnesian territory with navy, the athenians declined to participate in hoplite battle with spartans. The farmers where asked to move into the city, making it an island. The war continues: misery and death prevailed elsewhere in greece, as thucydides pointed out, the war raging throughout greece intensi ed the long-standing tensions between the ordinary citizens and the aristocrats.
