Long Walls

Peloponnesian War Stasis at Corcyra 427 Sphakteria 425 Peace of Nikias spring 421 Melos 416 Sicilian expedition –Alcibiades –End of peace 414; Dekeleia oligarchy ; Samian democracy Aegospotamoi 405 Athenian surrender 404; Ionian sell-out

Funeral Oration Intergenerational inheritance Way of life: national habits –Comparison with Spartans –Pleasant, free; give and get –Daring, aggressive Use of death: worth the risk Valor, freedom, happiness Different status –Rich, virtuous, leaders, men –Poor, bad, followers, women

Plague Hippocratic corpus: historia Indifferent attacker –Doctors die –Social breakdown –No religion effective; oracles –Time scale diminished –Thucydides Heraclitus

Peloponnesian War Thucydides (born c ; died c 400) Funeral oration after first year of war Plague immediately following Cleon and Mytilenean debate (428)5