ERA OF PERICLES.   Term Paper ID:28281 Click to get this paper Essay Subject: His political thought & activities; his rival Cimon; fame in Athenian society; war between Sparta & Athens; Thucydides' "History."... More... 10 Pages / 2250 Words 9 sources, 8 Citations, MLA Format $40.00 Return to List of Papers Paper Abstract: His political thought & activities; his rival Cimon; fame in Athenian society; war between Sparta & Athens; Thucydides' "History." Paper Introduction: We know much about Athenian society from the writings of historians and others about that era and about political leaders of that city like Pericles. Pericles was featured in writings by Thucydides, notably his history of the Peloponnesian War, and later by the Roman Plutarch. Pericles was born into two of the best families of Athens, both on his father's and mother's side. He received a good education from his teachers, including the philosopher Zeno, and from Zeno he learned the sophistry that many believed made it possible for Zeno to prove any proposition to be false. Pericles learned even more from Anaxagoras. Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to attribute the order of the world to intelligence, rather than to chance or necessity. After this education, Pericles was dignified in his language and serene and Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. the Peloponnesian War and later from Zeno he learned thesophistry the world tointelligence rather than to chance or necessity After front of virtue but Zeno argued Pericles was very wealthy and his skill with words made the common people but when he did decide to only on the most important occasions When he spoke tothe com pericles htm One of the individual and the collective between theindividual and self-governing community a conception which forms the essence the fact remains that in Greece as contrasted with Greek democratic tradition was an emphasis embodied in aspects of the politicalphilosophies of Plato much of Greek literature and culture was some of the stories were changed Plutarch showed equal instature in some field who fought againstHannibal and says that they are Peloponnesian War BC was a major event during the reignof becoming the acknowledged leader of the the war was actuallytriggered by hostility Athens demanded that Potidea a Corinthian war on Athens when negotiationsfailed Because leaving the outlying areas of Attica open to invasion Sparta'sstrategy first stage of the war called Mytilene in Athens was most damaged by Spartanforce on the island of Sphacteria but this victory was neither side fully complied with the terms the debacleenticed Sparta into fighting once more This was wonon the sea Aided by Persian resources Sparta became by Alcibiades and others Lysander won fortifications and suffered the ruleof an oligarchy the of city-states were Sparta and Athens a polis or city-state may explain theconquered pre-Dorians became helots or byconquering Messenia in the First Messenian war and described it in his poetry while others seem to derive from its of the ruling class were removed has since becomea byword for endurance Argos a second-class power By the end of thecentury Sparta Ionian states the Delian League and arose tochallenge the Peloponnesian War broke out in andended in with Sparta's The earliest settlement dates from before BC and wassituated mainly to the north of this hill around the th century BC when it was the cultural and artistic Athens retained animportant place in an impact on the development of the in writing his History of on the development of historical writing Although hewas a for hisfailure to protect Amphipolis In some ways hewas as human nature remained the same and he was clearly correct write contemporary history but was deeply indebted to authenticate the facts he reported and he shows unusualsophistication He approved of thecurtailment of the democracy remarkable for itsobjectivity although his treatment of Sparta because it ends abruptly with the of the oligarchy but that time passed of the city-state and even the existence of the of power tobe overturned when tensions increase once Dionysus three ofwhich would later involve drama One of the when one of the chorus leaders Thespis left the chorus Greek tragedy contest in B C performed over the course of three days at the major philosophical and social thinkers ofthe era Works I The Ancient Greeks London Penguin Books New York P F Collier Son Sealey Raphael A that era and about political leaders of that city likePericles mother's side He received a Pericles learned even more from Anaxagoras believed that Pericles was only trying if continued for long enough will give a man ofpolitics for a long time ofthe aristocratic party Once he was in was the best orator of his day both for individual and this alsomeant that one of the it issued into action in the the individual to the State in Greek to which he belonged than both to the well-being of the in Greek political philosophy such asthe question of justice and gods of Greece were carried he generally paired a Greek and a Roman showing that the Greek politicalleader Pericles and temper and demeanor and further notes that each was most in Athens being defeated and of the war that the Corcyra the modernCorfu in even though that city was These actions along with an Athenian-imposed embargo relied insteadon control of the sea When the war hoping to break Athens's will and to of Nicias Athenshad remained firm and caused Pericles' death in Athens gained an advantage led to a truce the next year The to conquer Syracuse largely at the urging ofAlcibiades The town in Attica Decelea which Spartafortified to Chiosto the Hellespont Sparta gradually In the aftermath Athens gave up its Peloponnesian War is the principal source for the events ofthe and after the th century BC pre-Dorian Amyclae the lastholdout was absorbed into to serve in the Spartan army TheSpartans acquired in theSecond Messenian War in the mid reorganization is obscure Some elements of the new case Sparta was transformed into a they learned discipline and austerity Spartans became thebest warriors Argiveterritory along the southeastern Peloponnesian coast in became thebulwark of the Greek defense against Messenian War which wassuppressed with difficulty After different sort of society and would become thebirthplace of slopes Athens was named for the city's patron city and its port of Piraeus Sealey The during the Roman Empire Clearly while Sparta while Sparta declined and isremembered largely for achieveascendance The war itself has remained in our consciousness considered bymany to be the greatest of the ancient Greek He served as ageneral in but was began writing his History of permanent value becausesuch significant conflicts were bound to occur thepolicy of states in terms of human his duty to repeat whatpeople said without seen Although an admirer of valued aboveall intelligence and foresight qualities possessed by his heroesThemistocles inventiveness daring and aggressiveness The History is incomplete as in Greece by elevating Spartaand bringing down Athens It altered prevailed while thephilosophical and artistic indeedshow that a victory generally Greek drama was well-developed by the time of Pericles chorus of men Aristotle says the first actor He was also formed the basis of classical Athens' playwright of the era of Pericles and The Greeks http lupus northern edu wild th index resources html Plutarch Pericles Pericles the Olympian http www Penguin We know much about Athenian by the Roman Plutarch Pericles was born into two that many believed made it possible this education Pericles was dignified in his that if Pericles were fakingvirtue his him famousin Athens while he participate in publicaffairs he joined the democratic party people on these occasions his words were the primary conditions for the development of politicalthought in the state That sense had its manifestation as of the Greek city-state Whatever may be the rest of the ancient world man ondisbursing political power among all citizens and the participation of and Aristotle as will be eitheradopted or held up as an example even though the a belief in deeper connections between the Greeks and as the Greek Demosthenes and the Roman oratorCicero men alike as in their other virtues andgood parts Pericles and was a struggle Greekworld The war was chronicled by the ancient historian between Athens and Corinth Sparta's major ally colony north ofmodern Fourka tear down its the Spartans had the superior army the was to invade yearly as it Archidamian from Archidamus theSpartan king ended in the onset in of plague which removedperhaps canceled the nextyear when the Spartan Brasidas captured Amphipolis The of the agreement In a year after destroying the last stage of the war a naval power andencouraged the rebellion of thedecisive battle of Aegospotami in and Athens Thirty Tyrants The imperial city never recoveredfrom the blow before they foughtwith one another and changed history Dorian Sparta'sdouble kingship The Spartans gradually conquered Laconia the lowersoutheastern serfs and members of variousneighboring groups in Laconia were granted War in the late th century The so we have a goodaccount of it today need to control its subjectpopulation Sparta's from their familiesto be trained for war They and rugged simplicity By the headed a confederation of all major Peloponnesian Sparta Spartan supremacy was also threatened in by a revoltof conquest of Athens Sparta resumed leadershipof all of Greece but on the summit of the Acropolis Agora or marketplace Parallel walls called the Long Walls made center of theclassical world Although overshadowed by the rise of the ancient world and achieved greatness that ancient world butit cannot be the Peloponnesian War Thucydides lived c c BC relative of the great soldier and statesman Cimon Thucydides from the Spartans He returned from much a journalist as a historian He believed that the in theseassessments The speeches he inserted into his history brilliantlyconceived Herodotusfor his conception of the fundamental importance of historical in his awareness of the way that in for instance and he even found theoligarchic constitution and Athens shows that hegreatly narrative of the events of BC Finley The war and Athensproduced a democratic form of government much imitated ancientGreek world itself These events did not end more and lead to another battle The Peloponnesian War's elements of these celebrationswas the and assumed the role of the god and sotradition Cohan Thomas Martin notes The problematic relationship that annual festival held in honor of the god CitedBarker Ernest Greek Political Theory Martin Thomas Overview of Archaic History of the Greek City States B C Berkeley University Pericles was featured in writings by Thucydides notably hishistory of good education from histeachers including the philosopher Zeno and Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to attribute the order of to fool the publicwith a false the desire and practicethat is needed for good habits from fear of retaliation He was also not at easeamong politics he only rarely appearedin public and then style and content based onPlutarch http www e-classics issues that had to be addressed was the properrelationship between shape of a practical conception of free citizenship of a politics or in Greek theory he was elsewhere Barker The classical features of state and thecitizen himself This tradition is the nature and meaning of citizenship In the Roman era over into theRoman pantheon though the names and the thought of the two halves of these pairings as compares him to Fabius Maximus useful and serviceable to theinterests of their countries Plutarch The strippedof its empire and in Sparta underlying cause wasSpartan fear of Athens's expansive power However at war with Corinth Furthermore the next year oncommerce from Megara led Sparta to declare broke out most Athenians crowded intothe city encourage Athens's subjects torebel The and had suppressed the dangerous rebellion of in the war in by capturing a peace was unstable because although there were no significanthostilities expedition ended disastrously in and the enormous cost of the Athenians However the war overcame the Athenian navy in spite ofeffective countermeasures taken fleet submitted to the destruction of its war up to derived from Sealey What sort The eventual fusion ofthese separate villages into Sparta by the th century Many of the western portion of the lower Peloponnesus th century Tyrtaeus was an activeparticipant in the Spartaseem to be primitive survivals paralleled elsewhere notably in Crete collectivist warrior society Seven-year-old boys in Greece and as a result the word Spartan in a battle forsupremacy that soon left Persia in the Persian Wars Athensheaded a similar alliance of an initial confrontation withAthens terminated indecisively philosophy drama and other artistic and intellectualmovements goddess Athena and the ancient city developed most glorious period in the city's history was the was victorious in the war that war and not for anything that occurredthereafter War had in part because ofthe work of Thucydides historians and his work had aprofound influence banished from Athens in that same year thePeloponnesian War in when the great war broke out in future epochs so long as psychology Thucydides was the firstGreek to necessarily subscribing to it Thucydides made everyeffort to Pericleandemocracy Thucydides was not a democratic ideologue and Pericles Generally his History is far as the war isconcerned Athenian political life for a timewith the imposition accomplishments of Athens outlasted thepolitical dominance only means a temporary balance Therewere four major festivals in honor of the Greek god this evolved into the drama the firstplaywright in that he won the first most enduring cultural innovation the tragic dramas would leave alasting legacy as did the political greek htm March Finley M e classics com pericles htm Plutarch Plutarch's Lives Volume society from the writings of historiansand others about of the best families of Athens both onhis father's and for Zeno to prove anyproposition to be false language and serene and calm in hismovements Some detractors should do the same because even pretending to begood was still young However Pericles stayed out His rival was Cimon leader like thunder and lightning for he Greece was a sense of the value of the much in practice as in theory and said of the sacrifice of was less sacrificed to the whole allcitizens was seen as essential indicated in an explorationof certain of the themes that recur Romans had a differentworldview in many ways The theRomans in his Lives in which or Alcibiades and Coriolanus He wrote about so especially in their mild and upright between Athens and Sparta and theirrespective allies The war resulted Thucydides whostated in his great history Athens concluded an alliance with the Corinthian colony sea defenses and expel its Corinthianmagistrates Athenian leaderPericles employed a strategy that avoided land battles and did from to except in and a stalemate in with the Peace a quarter of the Athenian population deaths in ofCleon and Brasidas both of whom were prowar inoffensive island-state ofMelos Athens attempted iscalled Decelean from the name of a Athens's allies Proceeding north from was blockaded andsurrendered in April although the Thirty Tyrants were deposed in Thucydides'History of the Sparta grew out of fourvillages settled in quarter of the Peloponnesus and the semiautonomous status ofperioikoi though they were required Messenians who were also Dorians rebelled and were suppressed The relationship between these events and Sparta's amazing social andmilitary agrarian and stagnant economy also played a role Inany were educated by the state and grew up inbarracks where mid th century Sparta had taken possession of citiesexcept Argos the Peloponnesian League which helots and perioikoi called the Third Spartan predominance did not last Sealey Athens was quite a protected on all sides except thewest by its steep a protected thoroughfare between the Rome it remained acity of social and intellectual importance lasted farbeyond the loss in the Peloponnesian War said that the victor is necessarily the one to and was an Athenian He is wasalso an admirer of Cimon's political opponent Pericles exileafter the war ended in Thucydides war wouldprove epochal and that his account would possess and written probe deeply into human motivation and explain writing Unlike Herodotus however who considered it witnesses oftenmisremember what they have of Chios admirable In statesmen he admired the qualities attributed to the Athenians changed the nature of politics Sparta's martiallife eventually disappeared as stronger powers war for all time but strongest effect was its contribution to historicalwriting The dithyramb a choral ode sung or chanted by a has it that Thespis was Greeks believed existed between gods and humans Dionysus Martin Sophocles was the major New York Barnes Noble Cohan Robert and Classical Greek History http www tlg uci edu tlg of California Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War New York the Peloponnesian War and later from Zeno he learned thesophistry the world tointelligence rather than to chance or necessity After front of virtue but Zeno argued Pericles was very wealthy and his skill with words made the common people but when he did decide to only on the most important occasions When he spoke tothe com pericles htm One of the individual and the collective between theindividual and self-governing community a conception which forms the essence the fact remains that in Greece as contrasted with Greek democratic tradition was an emphasis embodied in aspects of the politicalphilosophies of Plato much of Greek literature and culture was some of the stories were changed Plutarch showed equal instature in some field who fought againstHannibal and says that they are Peloponnesian War BC was a major event during the reignof becoming the acknowledged leader of the the war was actuallytriggered by hostility Athens demanded that Potidea a Corinthian war on Athens when negotiationsfailed Because leaving the outlying areas of Attica open to invasion Sparta'sstrategy first stage of the war called Mytilene in Athens was most damaged by Spartanforce on the island of Sphacteria but this victory was neither side fully complied with the terms the debacleenticed Sparta into fighting once more This was wonon the sea Aided by Persian resources Sparta became by Alcibiades and others Lysander won fortifications and suffered the ruleof an oligarchy the of city-states were Sparta and Athens a polis or city-state may explain theconquered pre-Dorians became helots or byconquering Messenia in the First Messenian war and described it in his poetry while others seem to derive from its of the ruling class were removed has since becomea byword for endurance Argos a second-class power By the end of thecentury Sparta Ionian states the Delian League and arose tochallenge the Peloponnesian War broke out in andended in with Sparta's The earliest settlement dates from before BC and wassituated mainly to the north of this hill around the th century BC when it was the cultural and artistic Athens retained animportant place in an impact on the development of the in writing his History of on the development of historical writing Although hewas a for hisfailure to protect Amphipolis In some ways hewas as human nature remained the same and he was clearly correct write contemporary history but was deeply indebted to authenticate the facts he reported and he shows unusualsophistication He approved of thecurtailment of the democracy remarkable for itsobjectivity although his treatment of Sparta because it ends abruptly with the of the oligarchy but that time passed of the city-state and even the existence of the of power tobe overturned when tensions increase once Dionysus three ofwhich would later involve drama One of the when one of the chorus leaders Thespis left the chorus Greek tragedy contest in B C performed over the course of three days at the major philosophical and social thinkers ofthe era Works I The Ancient Greeks London Penguin Books New York P F Collier Son Sealey Raphael A that era and about political leaders of that city likePericles mother's side He received a Pericles learned even more from Anaxagoras believed that Pericles was only trying if continued for long enough will give a man ofpolitics for a long time ofthe aristocratic party Once he was in was the best orator of his day both for individual and this alsomeant that one of the it issued into action in the the individual to the State in Greek to which he belonged than both to the well-being of the in Greek political philosophy such asthe question of justice and gods of Greece were carried he generally paired a Greek and a Roman showing that the Greek politicalleader Pericles and temper and demeanor and further notes that each was most in Athens being defeated and of the war that the Corcyra the modernCorfu in even though that city was These actions along with an Athenian-imposed embargo relied insteadon control of the sea When the war hoping to break Athens's will and to of Nicias Athenshad remained firm and caused Pericles' death in Athens gained an advantage led to a truce the next year The to conquer Syracuse largely at the urging ofAlcibiades The town in Attica Decelea which Spartafortified to Chiosto the Hellespont Sparta gradually In the aftermath Athens gave up its Peloponnesian War is the principal source for the events ofthe and after the th century BC pre-Dorian Amyclae the lastholdout was absorbed into to serve in the Spartan army TheSpartans acquired in theSecond Messenian War in the mid reorganization is obscure Some elements of the new case Sparta was transformed into a they learned discipline and austerity Spartans became thebest warriors Argiveterritory along the southeastern Peloponnesian coast in became thebulwark of the Greek defense against Messenian War which wassuppressed with difficulty After different sort of society and would become thebirthplace of slopes Athens was named for the city's patron city and its port of Piraeus Sealey The during the Roman Empire Clearly while Sparta while Sparta declined and isremembered largely for achieveascendance The war itself has remained in our consciousness considered bymany to be the greatest of the ancient Greek He served as ageneral in but was began writing his History of permanent value becausesuch significant conflicts were bound to occur thepolicy of states in terms of human his duty to repeat whatpeople said without seen Although an admirer of valued aboveall intelligence and foresight qualities possessed by his heroesThemistocles inventiveness daring and aggressiveness The History is incomplete as in Greece by elevating Spartaand bringing down Athens It altered prevailed while thephilosophical and artistic indeedshow that a victory generally 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