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argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
aid and had been made a part of the defensive alliance formed by the Athenians. Since Corinth was allied with Sparta, the foundati...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...
In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...
In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In five pages this paper considers the text's structure and also discusses how the war is presented in terms of the primary themes...
In five pages this paper discusses the issue of the weak being subjugated by the strong that is presented in this ancient historic...
This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...
and about 700 allies, were to delay the invading Persians for as long as possible. The idea was that an elite force, willing to s...
even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...
turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...
Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
War I, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia all opposed Germany which was aligned with Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Otto...
deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...
dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...
The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...
The writer argues that the basic cause of World War II was World War I. The paper also argues that the Great Depression did not ca...
fueled by a rising tide of nationalism. The traditions and problems dated back so many years that it would be nearly impossible to...
be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...
to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...
after being cast into the water in a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (a...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
In the socio and political environment that resulted after World War I ended, there was probably even less chance of global...
of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...