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Long Walls
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Peloponnesian War Stasis at Corcyra 427 Sphakteria 425 Peace of Nikias spring 421 Melos 416 Sicilian expedition 415-13 –Alcibiades –End of peace 414; Dekeleia 413 411 oligarchy 400-5000; Samian democracy Aegospotamoi 405 Athenian surrender 404; Ionian sell-out
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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
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Plague Hippocratic corpus: historia Indifferent attacker –Doctors die –Social breakdown –No religion effective; oracles –Time scale diminished –Thucydides Heraclitus
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Peloponnesian War Thucydides (born c.460-455; died c 400) Funeral oration after first year of war Plague immediately following Cleon and Mytilenean debate (428)5
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