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Xenophon, Constitution Of The Athenians, 1.4-1.6
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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.1-3.18, 3.25-3.28, 3.36-3.50, 3.36.2, 3.36.4-3.36.6, 3.37.1, 3.37.3-3.37.4, 3.38.2, 3.49.1, 3.49.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3.36.2. and after deliberating as to what they should do with the former, in the fury of the moment determined to put to death not only the prisoners at Athens, but the whole adult male population of Mitylene, and to make slaves of the women and children. It was remarked that Mitylene had revolted without being, like the rest, subjected to the empire; and what above all swelled the wrath of the Athenians was the fact of the Peloponnesian fleet having ventured over to Ionia to her support, a fact which was held to argue a long-meditated rebellion. 3.36.4. The morrow brought repentance with it and reflection on the horrid cruelty of a decree, which condemned a whole city to the fate merited only by the guilty. 3.36.6. An assembly was therefore at once called, and after much expression of opinion upon both sides, Cleon, son of Cleaenetus, the same who had carried the former motion of putting the Mitylenians to death, the most violent man at Athens, and at that time by far the most powerful with the commons, came forward again and spoke as follows:— 3.37.3. The most alarming feature in the case is the constant change of measures with which we appear to be threatened, and our seeming ignorance of the fact that bad laws which are never changed are better for a city than good ones that have no authority; that unlearned loyalty is more serviceable than quick-witted insubordination; and that ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than their more gifted fellows. 3.37.4. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws, and to overrule every proposition brought forward, thinking that they cannot show their wit in more important matters, and by such behavior too often ruin their country; while those who mistrust their own cleverness are content to be less learned than the laws, and less able to pick holes in the speech of a good speaker; and being fair judges rather than rival athletes, generally conduct affairs successfully. 3.38.2. Such a man must plainly either have such confidence in his rhetoric as to adventure to prove that what has been once for all decided is still undetermined, or be bribed to try to delude us by elaborate sophisms. 3.49.1. Such were the words of Diodotus. The two opinions thus expressed were the ones that most directly contradicted each other; and the Athenians, notwithstanding their change of feeling, now proceeded to a division, in which the show of hands was almost equal, although the motion of Diodotus carried the day. 3.49.4. Luckily they met with no contrary wind, and the first ship making no haste upon so horrid an errand, while the second pressed on in the manner described, the first arrived so little before them, that Paches had only just had time to read the decree, and to prepare to execute the sentence, when the second put into port and prevented the massacre. The danger of Mitylene had indeed been great.
2. Xenophon, Constitution of The Athenians, 1.2, 1.5-1.9 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)



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aristocracy, aristocrats, aristocratic Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
aristotle Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
assembly, the right to address Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
athenian empire Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 200
ceccarelli, paola Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
citizens Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
class, lower Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
commoners Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
democracy, ancient and modern, definition of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
democracy, ancient and modern, naval power and Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
diodotus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 200
eder, walter Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
egalitarianism Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
election Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
empire Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
homer, homeric Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
hoplites Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
ideology, democratic Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
ideology Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
navy Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
participation in government, military service and Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
plato Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
politeia Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
rowers Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
sortition Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
thetes, militarization of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
wallace, robert, viii Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
warfare Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
wealth Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 123
xenophon, ps.-xenophon, ath. pol.' Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 210