Thucydides: “…the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity [applying economic pressure] to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.”
Questions:
(a) Which author describes Athens as a place with time for pleasant relaxation?
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(b) Which author describes people being forced to do hard work?
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Pericles: “Ours is a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority, but of the whole people.”
Thucydides: “In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first; and … it was easy for them to reduce [defeat] any that tried to leave the confederacy.”
(c) Pericles says that Athens is a democracy. What does he mean by democracy?
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(d) Do you think Thucydides would see Athens’s role in the Delian League as democratic? Why or why not?
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