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ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...

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...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...

then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that in History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides regards the Athens defeat...

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...

after being cast into the water in a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (a...

In five pages this paper discusses the issue of the weak being subjugated by the strong that is presented in this ancient historic...

In five pages this paper considers the text's structure and also discusses how the war is presented in terms of the primary themes...

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...

In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

on certain players, who were central to the role of the Greeks above all others. "There was a literary consequence to this omissi...

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

In six pages this paper examines Herodotus' History text in a consideration of its vengeance themes. There is only the primary so...

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...