Classical Cultures

Self-Quiz:Thucydides 2.56-65

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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.

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3. The Athenian invasion of Thrace and siege of Potidaea ended in failure because the plague broke out in the Athenian ranks.

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4. Thucydides admits that Athens was only nominally a democracy and that power really resided in Perikles' hands.

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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.

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6. Perikles told the Athenians not to send a peace mission to Sparta.

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7. Perikles claimed to be above taking bribes.

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8. Perikles said that the Athenians should be motivated by, among other things, a sense of superiority.

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9. Thucydides evaluates Perikles positively as a leader.

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10. Thucydides claims that the Athenians lost the war because they destroyed themselves by their own internal strife.

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