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1.Perikles' policy was to let the Spartan infantry plunder Attica and have the Athenian navy attack Spartan territory from the sea.
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2. Perikles summoned an assembly because the Athenians blamed him for their misfortune and were, moreover, eager to make peace with Sparta.
3. The Athenian invasion of Thrace and siege of Potidaea ended in failure because the plague broke out in the Athenian ranks.
4. Thucydides admits that Athens was only nominally a democracy and that power really resided in Perikles' hands.
5. Perikles admits that even if it seems unjust for Athens to have taken her empire, it is now too dangerous a thing to let it go.
6. Perikles told the Athenians not to send a peace mission to Sparta.
7. Perikles claimed to be above taking bribes.
8. Perikles said that the Athenians should be motivated by, among other things, a sense of superiority.
9. Thucydides evaluates Perikles positively as a leader.
10. Thucydides claims that the Athenians lost the war because they destroyed themselves by their own internal strife.
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