PERICLEAN ATHENS AND THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR (431-404 B.C.) OF THUCYDIDES (460-404 B.C.)

THE DELIAN LEAGUE AGAINST PERSIA (476-449). THE LONG WALLS. PERICLES (c. 495-429). THUCYDIDES' HISTORY: THE ABSENCE OF DIVINE GOVERNANCE AND MORAL DIRECTION; RATIONALISM (the inductive method); HISTORY AS JOURNALISM; "LITERACY" REPLACES "ORALITY"

THE LEGAL METAPHOR: THE INDUCTIVE METHOD. ARGUMENTS FROM PROBABILITY, ADVANTAGE, NATURE.

THE MEDICAL METAPHOR http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/sacred.html: THE "TRUE CAUSE" OF THE WAR: SPARTA'S FEAR OF ATHENS. PROGNOSIS="FORETELLING" OF THE COURSE OF DISEASE. "A POSSESSION FOREVER"

THE TRAGIC METAPHOR: TWO CONTENDING FORCES. SPEECHES

SPARTA VS. ATHENS

LAND POWER...................SEA POWER

AGRICULTURE.................COMMERCE

OLIGARCHY......................DEMOCRACY

STATUS QUO.....................INNOVATION

DIFFIDENCE.......................CONFIDENCE

MODERATION...................EXCESS

"QUIETUDE"…………….."BUSYBODINESS"

THE TRAGIC WARNER: "DON'T ADD TO THE EMPIRE." ATHENS AGAINST HERSELF

HIGHLIGHTS

THE "ARCHAEOLOGY": HOW DO WE LEARN ABOUT THE PAST?

FUNERAL SPEECH: TOLERANCE, FESTIVALS, FREE DEBATE

THE PLAGUE (430): CLINICAL PROGNOSIS, PERICLES' DEFENCE (430)

MITYLENEAN REVOLT (428): "THE STRONG DO WHAT THEY WILL"; THE ENEMIES OF EMPIRE: PITY, DECENCY, PLEASURE IN WORDS

PLATAEA (427)

PYLOS (425): DEMOSTHENES. CLEON. NICIAS. BRASIDAS. "THEY STROVE FOR MORE." PEACE OF NICIAS (421)

MELOS (416): MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/melian.htm

SICILY (415). ALCIBIADES AND THE HERMS. NICIAS. GYLIPPUS.

OLIGARCHIC REVOLT: THE 400 (411). RECALL OF ALCIBIADES. PERSIAN INFLUENCE AND SURRENDER OF IONIA.

ARGINUSAE (406)

AEGESPOTAMI (404)

LYSANDER. REIGN OF THE THIRTY (403). RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY.