How To Use Peloponnesian In A Sentence
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Sparta freed many cities, including Athens, from their tyrants, fought bravely for Greek freedom from the Persians, and then claimed to be freeing Greece from Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
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Work on the temple continued until 432; the Parthenon, then, represents the tangible and visible efflorescence of Athenian imperial power, unencumbered by the depradations of the Peloponnesian War.
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After this the Peloponnesians, finding that their siege engines effected nothing, and that their mound was met by the counterwork, concluded that their present means of offense were unequal to the taking of the city, and prepared for its circumvallation.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Indeed, The Peloponnesian War may well be the seminal work on international relations, even as Thucydides is venerated in the West as the founder of enlightened pragmatism in political discourse.
A Historian For Our Time
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After Atheno-Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek polis declined. But their humanism ideas have passed through the long history and gotten into the tradition of the western humanism.
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Of course, Mr. Kagan relies heavily on Thucydides, as any historian of the Peloponnesian War must, but he doesn't hesitate to take issue with his judgments.
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Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory
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To Athens, the Peloponnesians offered economic assistance to maintain their destitute people, and even a new home within the Peloponnese.
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Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
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In history, he translated Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War into English, and later wrote his own history of the Long Parliament.
Thomas Hobbes
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The Peloponnesian army under King Archidamus reached the borders of Attica and encamped at the deme of Acharnae.
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While the Peloponnesians were in the Hellespont, the Antandrians, a people of Aeolic extraction, conveyed by land across Mount Ida some heavy infantry from Abydos, and introduced them into the town; having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the Persian lieutenant of
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Athenians formed in column and sailed close alongshore to Sestos; upon perceiving which the Peloponnesians put out from Abydos to meet them.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Two war era refers to period of the Persian War and the Peloponnesian War.
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This is diplomatic language for joint hegemony and a proposed sellout of the Peloponnesian League.
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Shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War he was charged by the political opponents of Pericles with impiety, that is, with denying the gods recognized by the State.
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Cleon, the hero of the Peloponnesian war, advocated the public renouncement of friends upon dealing with public affairs -- he paid for it with some revilement by historians.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Regulator Franchise, or the Alan Blinder Problem
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Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
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Thucydides goes on to say that the stasis in Corcyra was simply the first, and not the worst, of a wave of civil conflicts that shattered many Greek poleis during the long Peloponnesian War.
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Socrates (c. 470–399 B. C. ), who was also a soldier during the Peloponnesian War and a stonemason after, was renowned as a philosopher and educator.
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Clayton devised the first empirical tests for wisdom, which she defined as the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally — picking up on the work begun by Socrates, around the time the Peloponnesian War began to turn into what we would call a "quagmire.
Don’t Forget the Owls
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During the Peloponnesian War, Athens, the champion of democracies, of course supported the democrats throughout Greece whenever it could.
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After this the Peloponnesians, finding that their engines effected nothing, and that their mound was met by the counterwork, concluded that their present means of offence were unequal to the taking of the city, and prepared for its circumvallation.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Of course, Mr. Kagan relies heavily on Thucydides, as any historian of the Peloponnesian War must, but he doesn't hesitate to take issue with his judgments.
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Peloponnesian War
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Meanwhile the land forces of the Peloponnesians who were with the Chians and of the allies on the spot, moved alongshore for Clazomenae and Cuma, under the command of Eualas, a Spartan; while the fleet under Diniadas, one of the Perioeci, first sailed up to Methymna and caused it to revolt, and, leaving four ships there, with the rest procured the revolt of Mitylene.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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At the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War the Spartans slew any trader they caught sailing around their coast line, irrespective of their ethnicity.
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Chapter three:The synthesis narrates the expedition to the book of Thucydides' History of The Peloponnesian War writing influence.
