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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...
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...
This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...
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...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
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 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...
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...
even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...
of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...
In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
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 ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...
This paper examines the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in terms of how the first and seventh debates dealt wi...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...
of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...
In a paper consisting of 10 pages the ways in which Thucydides depicted Sparta and Athens in terms of their cultural and social sy...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...