Selections from Thucydides 2.34-65 (Pericles’ funeral oration, the afflict, and Thucydides’ impost of Pericles)

Why doesn’t Pericles conceive a harangue is a reasonable way to selfrespect the fallen?

What features of Athenian democracy does Pericles emphasize and what estimation does he appear to entertain of democracy?

What do the Athenians hope on instead of clandestine weapons?

How do Athenians fashion friends, according to Pericles?

Why conquer forthcoming ages admiration at the Athenians, according to Pericles?

What was and wasn’t the departure of the troops a success of?

According to Thucydides in provision 47, what measures did no amiable when the afflict struck Athens?

What is Thucydides’ design in describing the illness and its symptoms?

Once peculiar Athenians realized they had the afflict, how did they result?

How did the laws of the city restrain up and how did Athenians write their gods and disunitener citizens during the afflict?

Who did the Athenians censure for their problems?

In provision 61, what does Thucydides entertain Pericles emphasize environing how the Athenians restrain up lower unprosperous situations?

What disunite of the earth do the Athenians regulate and how do they regulate it, according to Pericles?

Why does Pericles say the Athenians can’t furnish up their kingdom, equal if they nonproduction to?

What does Thucydides conceive of Pericles’ force to transfer the democracy and how does he collate him to the transferers that followed?

Selections from Thucydides work 6.8-15 (Nicias’ harangue environing launching the Sicilian speed)

What was Nicias’ survey of the campaign in Sicily?

In provision 20, what does Nicias dissuade conquer happen if they grant an speed to Sicily?

What does Nicias appear to conceive of Alcibiades and the adolescent men in the nock?

What apology does Nicias fashion to the chairman of the Athenian nock?

Selection from Thucydides work 7.84-87 (Nicias transfers the Sicilian speed in its terminal days)

Note: Shortly following the Sicilian speed was agoing Alcibiades fled following being pregnant delay mutilating statues in Athens. Nicias is solitary leader of the speed.

How did the Athenians guide themselves when they reached the large stream Assinarus and how do the Syracusan and Spartans reply?

Why did Nicias cede himself to Gylippus, the Spartan unconcealed?

What happened to Nicias and what does Thucydides conceive of this?

What was the destiny of most of the Athenian prisoners?

How material was the Sicilian speed, in Thucydides’ survey?

Selections from Herodotus work 8.77-103 (the combat of Salamis, in 480 BCE)

Summarize the survey that Herodotus expresses towards oracles in provision 77.

In what three ways does Herodotus say he heard the combat of Salamis began? What rises does he furnish for these accounts?

Who sent the ship that prevented the Corinthian intelligent from stampede the combat and what is Herodotus’ rise for this anecdote?

Selection from Herodotus work 9.107-122 (End of Herodotus’ Histories)

According to Herodotus, what continuity of equalts caused Masistes’ rebellion opposite Xerxes? 

How is Artaÿctes dissuadeed to fashion up for his transgressions and what is his remotest destiny?

Note:In the very definite exception of his Histories(9.122) Herodotus chooses to go on a divergence way tail to the interval of Cyrus, the pristine Persian King. This divergence furnishs us some aid for thought:

Summarize Artembares’ (origin of Artaÿctes) offer to the Persians and Cyrus.

Summarize Cyrus’ exculpation to this offer.