CAS CL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Trireme, Carians, Gylippus

• School: Boston University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CAS CL 101
• Professor: Stephen Esposito

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Thucydides: on justice, power, and human nature intro. Thrace, in northern greece(cid:863) (cid:894)pg. (cid:454)(cid:895: (cid:862)related to cimon, a successful athenian general in the wars against. Persia(cid:863) (cid:894)pg. (cid:454)(cid:895: (cid:862)ele(cid:272)ted ge(cid:374)eral i(cid:374) (cid:1008)(cid:1006)(cid:1008) a(cid:374)d li(cid:448)ed after (cid:1008)(cid:1004)(cid:1008), (cid:449)he(cid:374) the (cid:449)ar e(cid:374)ded(cid:863) (cid:894)pg. (cid:454)(cid:895, lead (cid:862)for(cid:272)es i(cid:374) northern greece i(cid:374) (cid:1008)(cid:1006)(cid:1008) [at] the strategi(cid:272) (cid:272)it(cid:455) of. Amphipolis [(cid:449)hi(cid:272)h] (cid:449)as their [the parta(cid:374)(cid:859)s] (cid:272)hief target. (cid:863) & the(cid:455) succeeded (pg. xi: thucydides was exiled for 20 yrs (until the war ended) & travelled to. Thrace (home), peloponnesus, & syracuse: birth: between 460 & 455, death: before finishing his story (had 7 yrs left to tell, learned from, sophists, antiphon sophist-politician, anaxagoras philosopher, protagoras (probs learned most from him, the combatants. Series of political upheavals (unstable) new form of gov. (democracy) Ancient constitution w/ a mix of monarchy, aristocracy, & democracy (stable) Open to new innovators & home to new. Isolated in center of peloponnesus & learning resistant to cultural change.