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Thucydides, The History Of The Peloponnesian War, 2.40.2-2.40.3
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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.22.3, 1.70, 1.78, 1.144.1, 2.13.2, 2.65, 2.65.5-2.65.11, 2.93.4, 5.26, 5.46, 5.52, 5.83, 5.87, 5.97, 5.102-5.105, 5.113, 6.9-6.24 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.22.3. My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. 1.144.1. I have many other reasons to hope for a favorable issue, if you can consent not to combine schemes of fresh conquest with the conduct of the war, and will abstain from willfully involving yourselves in other dangers; indeed, I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices. 2.13.2. He also gave the citizens some advice on their present affairs in the same strain as before. They were to prepare for the war, and to carry in their property from the country. They were not to go out to battle, but to come into the city and guard it, and get ready their fleet, in which their real strength lay. They were also to keep a tight rein on their allies—the strength of Athens being derived from the money brought in by their payments, and success in war depending principally upon conduct and capital. 2.65.5. For as long as he was at the head of the state during the peace, he pursued a moderate and conservative policy; and in his time its greatness was at its height. When the war broke out, here also he seems to have rightly gauged the power of his country. 2.65.6. He outlived its commencement two years and six months, and the correctness of his previsions respecting it became better known by his death. 2.65.7. He told them to wait quietly, to pay attention to their marine, to attempt no new conquests, and to expose the city to no hazards during the war, and doing this, promised them a favorable result. What they did was the very contrary, allowing private ambitions and private interests, in matters apparently quite foreign to the war, to lead them into projects unjust both to themselves and to their allies—projects whose success would only conduce to the honor and advantage of private persons, and whose failure entailed certain disaster on the country in the war. 2.65.8. The causes of this are not far to seek. Pericles indeed, by his rank, ability, and known integrity, was enabled to exercise an independent control over the multitude—in short, to lead them instead of being led by them; for as he never sought power by improper means, he was never compelled to flatter them, but, on the contrary, enjoyed so high an estimation that he could afford to anger them by contradiction. 2.65.9. Whenever he saw them unseasonably and insolently elated, he would with a word reduce them to alarm; on the other hand, if they fell victims to a panic, he could at once restore them to confidence. In short, what was nominally a democracy became in his hands government by the first citizen. 2.65.10. With his successors it was different. More on a level with one another, and each grasping at supremacy, they ended by committing even the conduct of state affairs to the whims of the multitude. 2.65.11. This, as might have been expected in a great and sovereign state, produced a host of blunders, and amongst them the Sicilian expedition; though this failed not so much through a miscalculation of the power of those against whom it was sent, as through a fault in the senders in not taking the best measures afterwards to assist those who had gone out, but choosing rather to occupy themselves with private cabals for the leadership of the commons, by which they not only paralyzed operations in the field, but also first introduced civil discord at home. 2.93.4. Arriving by night and launching the vessels from Nisaea, they sailed, not to Piraes as they had originally intended, being afraid of the risk, besides which there was some talk of a wind having stopped them, but to the point of Salamis that looks towards Megara ; where there was a fort and a squadron of three ships to prevent anything sailing in or out of Megara . This fort they assaulted, and towed off the galleys empty, and surprising the inhabitants began to lay waste the rest of the island.
2. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, On Thucydides, 41, 12 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Plutarch, Pericles, 29.1-29.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

29.1. After this, when the billows of the Peloponnesian War were already rising and swelling, he persuaded the people to send aid and succour to the Corcyraeans 433 B.C. in their war with the Corinthians, and so to attach to themselves an island with a vigorous naval power at a time when the Peloponnesians were as good as actually at war with them.


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acharnae/acharnians Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 72
aeschylus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620
agis Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
aison Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620, 621
alcibiades Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 446, 449; Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 79
alciphron Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
anger Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 57, 59, 60, 72, 74, 79
archidamus Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 57, 60, 72, 74, 79
athenagoras Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 524
augustus, duke of saxony Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 801
chrysis (argive priestess) Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620
cimon Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
claudius, roman emperor, expulsion of jews from rome by Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 327, 408
cnemos Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
cognitive approach to emotions Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 60
corcyra Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 457, 524, 534
corcyraeans Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
corinth Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
corinthian gulf Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 449
diodorus siculus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 728, 741
dionysius of halicarnassus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 728, 741
drugs (φάρμακον/α) Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 59
eidolοn/a Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21
eikos/eikota Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21
elites/masses Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 57, 59, 60, 72, 79
emotions, metaphors for Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 74
emotions, scripts of Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 72
enargeia Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 57
epideixis/epideictic Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21
epigram Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 38
erastes/eromenos Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 79
ergon Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 57, 74, 79
eros Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 57, 60
gnome Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 74
hellanicus, atthis Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620
hellanicus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620
heraion Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620
homoerotic Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 72
internal audiences Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21
kynossema Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 741
lakedaimonios Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
leader/leadership Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 72, 79
lesbos Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
lichas, son of arcesilaus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
logos/logoi Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 57, 59, 60
magic Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 59
nicias Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 449; Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 79
nisaia Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
oligarchic conspiracy/revolution (nan Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
opsis Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 57, 79
performance Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21
pericles Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 59, 60, 72, 74, 79
phleious Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620
phormio Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 449
piraeus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
plague' Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 457
plague Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
plutarch Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 741
pothos Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 57, 60
salamis Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
saronic gulf Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
sicilian expedition Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 449, 457, 621, 728; Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 21, 57
skirphondas Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
thespiae Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
thirty years peace Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534
thrasyl(l)os Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 620, 621
thucydides, son of melesias, audience, reader Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 534, 801
thucydides, son of melesias, book-division Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 741
thucydides, son of melesias, causes, causality Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 457, 741
thucydides, son of melesias, editor, editions in antiquity Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 728, 741
thucydides, son of melesias, exile Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 572
thucydides, son of melesias, historical truth Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 741
thucydides, son of melesias, manuscript tradition Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 741
thucydides Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 38
valla, l. Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 801
winsheim, v. Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 801
winsheim, v. (son) Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 801
wittenberg Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 801