Classical Studies 1003. Fall, 2001. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS. D. B. Levine
Socrates, as traditionally portrayed in ancient sculpture.
Study Questions:
ANCIENT GREECE, BY THOMAS R. MARTIN. CHAPTER 8:
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH AT ATHENS
1. What does Martin say about the speeches in the History of Thucydides? (150)
2. What were three immediate causes of the Peloponnesian War? (150)
3. What were the "larger issues of power" that motivated "the hostility between Athens and Sparta -- aside from the immediate issues of Megara, Potidaea, and Corcyra? (151)
4. Describe the war strategy of Pericles. What was its strength -- and weakness? (152-153)
5. How did the plague at Athens affect the Athenian prosecution of the war in the 420s? (155-56)
6. What was unwise about the Athenian decision not to make peace with Sparta after the capture of the enemy at Pylos (Sphacteria)? (156)
7. How did the deaths of Cleon and Brasidas affect the Peloponnesian War? (156)
8. What did Alcibiades do during the "Peace of Nicias"? What happened at Mantineia in 418? (157)
10. Why did the Athenians not put Alcibiades on trial right away to test the charges of impiety against him? (158-159)
11. How did Alcibiades' move to the Spartan side "cause Athens still more trouble after the Sicilian catastrophe"? Why do we call the last years of the Peloponnesian War "the Decelean War"? (159-160)
12. How did the Persians take a role in the last years of the Peloponnesian War? (160)
13. What important constitutional change occurred in Athens in 411 BCE? (160-161)
14. What was the role of the Spartan commander Lysander in the last years of the Peloponnesian War? (163-164)
15. Who were "the Thirty Tyrants"? What did they do, and when? (162)
16. How did the last years of the Peloponnesian War strain the economy of Athens? (163-164)
17. Where did Athenian comedies get performed, when, and what were they like? (164-165)
18. What was the relationship between Cleon and Aristophanes? (164-165)
20. What characterized "the most remarkable of Aristophanes' comedies"? Give an example. (165-166)
21 What was Athenian society like after the Peloponnesian War? (166-167).
22. To what idea had Socrates devoted his life? What was he passionately concerned about? What did he try to prove? What were his central concerns? (1680169)
23. How do we know about the ideas of Socrates, if he wrote nothing down? What was "Socratic method" (169-170)
24. How did Socrates upset "the traditional hierarchy of education" at Athens? 170-171
25. How did the actions of Alcibiades and Critias harm the reputation of Socrates? (171)
26. Who was Anytus, and what did he do? How did Socrates respond? How did the Athenian jury respond? (171-172)
27. Why did Socrates refuse to go into voluntary exile to save his own life? What does this tell us about his convictions? (172-173)