PPT-Thucydides, Pericles & Classical Oration

Thucydides 460 BC 404 BC Important military magistrate in the Peloponnesian War Failed to protect Amphipolis an important Athenian colony from a Spartan attack and was sent to trial for this military failure. Economics Pericles expanded the wealth and power of Athens through the Delian League Culture Pericles launched a program to make Athens beautiful Pericles Leads Athens ESSENTIAL QUESTION What democratic changes did Pericles bring Pericles Three Goal ERICLES’ FUNERAL ORATION HUCYDIDES c. 470– c. 400 BC ucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War , trans. Rex Warner (London: Penguin, 1972), 143–51. Reprinted with per after 431 B. C. E. from Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs. It seemed to th Athens. “Pericles, son of . Xanthippus. , Athenian”.. Lecture Outline . Background. Inheritance . at Home & Abroad. Domestic Policy. : Consolidating Reforms of Solon. , Cleisthenes, & . Pisistratus. GCS Seminar 4. Thucydides 2.34. When the remains have been laid in the earth,. a man, chosen by the city for his reputed sagacity of judgment and. moral standing, delivers the appropriate eulogy over them; after. Key Terms. Alliance. Direct Democracy. Stipend. Jury. Ostracism. The Persian Wars. Athens emerged as the wealthiest Greek city-state. They sent forces to help the Ionian Greeks fight the Persians. Persia was victorious. . National Conference of Obs & Gynecology Basics to recent & UPCOG . 2015 28.11.2015 . HALL A. 09:00 . – . 09:15 AM .  . 09:15- 09:35 AM. 09 . :. 35 – 09:55 . AM.  . Chair . Persons: Dr . Neville . Morley . (neville.morley@bris.ac.uk). Thucydides, c.460-c.400 BCE. 1.1: Thucydides of Athens wrote the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, how they waged it against each other. He began writing at its very outset, in the expectation that this would be a great war and more worthy of account than any previous one. He based this judgement on the grounds that both sides came into the war at the height of their powers and in a full state of military readiness; and he also saw that the rest of the Greek world had either taken sides right at the start of was now planning to do so…. ERICLES’ FUNERAL ORATION HUCYDIDES c. 470– c. 400 BC ucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War , trans. Rex Warner (London: Penguin, 1972), 143–51. Reprinted with per IN THUCYDIDES’ . ARCHAEOLOGY. AND . SIMA QIAN’S . PREFACE TO HISTORICAL RECORDS. BAI Chun Xiao. Historical writings with the cyclic views appeared . in Greece and China first. Many ancient cultures had some sort of idea that the natural and human worlds moved in cycles of origin, growth, prosperity, decline and fall with various patterns. . 2-3 Sentences. You do not need to read the document yet. You may want to do some preliminary research in order to answer the following questions. Analysis of where the document came from before trying to understand its purpose and value. Thucydides II. Peithō. in Crisis . Agenda. Introduction. Historical Context, Concepts, Lenses. Mytilenean Debate. A Different Sort of Cleon?. “The Fragility of Goodness”. Values and Discourse Under Stress. context. Geography, topography and resources of Athens, Attica and the Athenian empire. Geography. Athens was the city and countryside of Attica. 16 km from sea. Attica – land around, a peninsula. Phaleron. Thucydides II. Peithō. in Crisis . Agenda. Introduction. Historical Context, Concepts, Lenses. Mytilenean Debate. A Different Sort of Cleon?. “The Fragility of Goodness”. Values and Discourse Under Stress.