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The Peloponnesian War began because Pericles was running our of time. In the first place Athens insisted on backing Corcyra

Athenian deaths were now a shadow of the past. When Aeschylus, in his play, the Persians, thanked the gods for

In Hippocrates’ time, if death was the end, what could be done to stave it off? Deprived of what we

Before Pericles dies, the morale in Athens was low. For the second year in succession the Spartans had been allowed

Cruelty showed itself only two years after Pericles was dead. In 428, after the usual spring invasion by the Spartans

Not everyone approved of this policy. The country people, whose farms were being devastated every year by the invading Spartans,

Socrates was short, ugly and brave. He served as a hoplite in the Peloponnesian war and on one occasion saved

Alcibiades was the nephew of Pericles. As well as being rich and handsome, he was amusing, clever, insolent and unreliable.

Greeks had first settled round the coasts of Sicily during the colonising period and in 480 they had united to

In the year when the expedition sailed to Sicily (415) Euripides put on a play, the Trojan Women, in which