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Samuel Dolby (no login)
Posted Feb 9, 2005 12:51 PM
Study Questions for Thucydides
Answer 1. Thucydides writes on page one that the Peloponnesian War was like the Greek War, everyone was taking part in it. Everyone had or were taking sides, and the combatants were preparing their armies. On page 16 it speaks of the natural reasons why this war was so great, things like earthquakes, and plagues. Terrible things that happened during this war, it also talks of pirates and that the two mightiest nations, Athens and Sparta, were going to war.
Answer 2. These paragraphs seem to be his introduction, this introduction gears us up for and informs us about the Peloponnesian war.
Answer 3. The Athenians decided their strength was in the sea so they spent their time creating a navy. The Spartans on the other hand di the opposite. They built up their land forces. One is just a slight overview of 1.18. 1.18 gives us more meat on the bones so to speak.
Answer 4. Thucydides went ot eyewittnesses and also lived during the war, so he would know quite a bit about what was going on. What he got from eyewittnesses he but through all kinds of tests. He makes sure that he puts down facts in his book.
Answer 5. He wrote the book so the war would be remembered, and he also siad that it was to be passed down through generations. Thucydides believes the future will reflect the past. To learn about the past is a great thing especially scince the nature of man will not change untill the coming of the Lord. So we can learn about man and his nature from the past.
Answer 6. Thucydides believes the growing power of Athens scarred the Spartans and that is when the treaty started to crumble.
Answer 7. Corcyra established a coloney and adventually Corinth attacked it. Corcyra was called for protection but would not send any so the coloney went and gave itself up to Corinth. This enraged Corcyra and so the war began.
Answer 8. During the winter the Corinthians began to build up their navy. This scarred Corcyra, so they went To Athens and asked to ally themselves to her. The Corinthians went to Athens to stop Corcyra. Athens took sides with Corcyra not only because of its powerful fleet but also its positioning.
Answer 9. The complian was the Athenian role in the battle of Sybota, the Corinthians saw the Athenian ships and were frightened. This was the compliant Corinth with the Athenians.
Answer 10. Potidaea was under siege by the Athenians and the Corinthians thought that the treaty had been broken so they went to Sparta for help.
Answer 11. Sparta thought that the Athenians had broken the treaty and prepared for war after siding with the Corinthians.
Answer 12. The Athenians were becoming more strict with their taxes on the other people. This made the other cities in favor of Sparta abd abgry with Athens.
Answer 13. Thucydides said that he considerd Themistocles the most famouse and extrordinary man in all of Helas. He also had a very good ability to lead.
Answer 14. Sparta commands that Athens stop her fighting but Pericles says if you give into a bully once he will come commanding again so he beggeed Athens to stad against Sparta and fight.
Book 2.
Answer 15. Eurymachos let in a small number of Thebans by night. The Thebans instead of killing the enemy in their beds gave the Plataeans a choice to either fihgt or to die. The Plataeans noticing the numbers of Thebans rose up against them and defeated them in one night. And then delt trechorusely with the captives.
Answer 16. Hellas felt that Athens was going to enslave them all so they sided with Sparta.
Anwer 17. So that the people of Athens would not get suspiciouse of him if the Spartans did not ravage his land because of an relationship with another man. He had the people get indoors with all their posessions and biuld a navy.
Answer 18. It was like a crampt prison. Their were people everywhere. In a bad atmosphere.
Answer 19. Pericles became an object of indignation.
Anwer 20. while the Spartans sieged them, they would send out their navy and take different areas of the Spartans.
Answer 21. To give the death of the soldiers meaning. The comfort he gave was that they will be glorified in death.
Answer 22. Their were people everywhere and it made for bad housing and close quarters so the plague spread like wild fire.
Answer 23. The change in mood was at first everyone was on fire about the causes and what not. After the plague this enthusiasum was gone.
Answer 24.They got haughty and went to defent their land.
Answer 25. The Plataeans dropped beams on the tips or they swung the rams out of the way.
Answer 26. The Athenians sank one of the leucadian ships. This frightened the rest of the fleet and they already being in disorreh fell befor the Athenian ships.
Most boats are hollow and fill with watter when punctured. Triremes are not. They do not sink because they do not fill up.
Class Summary
In class we went over the Thucydides SQs. I noticed scince there were 26 questions we didn’t go on to many rabbit trails. I did learn thoughabout the ships which was just awesome to me. I like the ships and the sea and often can see the triremes sailing across the see. I am under a bad time preasure so I will have to end their. Most of what we went over I already had read in the book but it was interesting anyway. Sorry for the missspellings.
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