Ancient Greece Analyzing Primary & Secondary Sources

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Ancient Greece Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources Instructions: Read each of the following documents contained in your Canvas assignment. Then, use the documents to answer the following questions. You will need to use the internet to answer number 3. Each discussion question is worth 5 points. In the Matching section, each term or person is worth 3.33 points. Documents needed: The Melian Dialogue and Pericles’s Funeral Oration, and Classical Greek Philosophers Reading: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle The Melian Dialogue Questions 1-4: 1. How do the Athenians respond to the Melians’ objections to being surrounded and threatened? Why did the Athenians refuse to remain neutral with the Melians? The Melians claimed that because they are an unbiased and impartial city rather than an adversary, Athens made it clear that they had no intentions in harming anyone. The Melians think that surrendering without a fight would be seen as humiliating or weak. 2. After much discussion and arguments, the Athenian envoys left the meeting, leaving the Melians to deliberate on the Athenian offer and decide the best course to follow . Imagine you were a member of the Melian delegation. If working in a group, discuss with your partner what your response would be to the Athenian envoys when they return. What is the best course of action for the Melians to take, and why? The best course of action for the Melians was for them to stay neutral during the war. To Athens, this showed a sign of weakness from the Melians if they did not enter the battle. 3. What ultimately happened to the city-state of Melos following this dialogue? What happened to the city-state of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War? (Use the internet and conduct the additional research needed to answer this question.) 1
Athens stormed into Melos. They demanded payment from the Melians but they refused. Athens gained over control of the region to Sparta at the end of the Peloponnesian War. 4. Do you believe the statement made by the Athenian delegates, “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must,” is historically accurate? Cite specific historical examples, other than the example of Melos, to support your opinion. I don’t think this statement is accurate. Pericles’s Funeral Oration Questions 5-6 5. Based on Pericles’s Funeral Oration , describe the Athenian government and explain how the city-state of Athens treats its neighbors. Athens’ protection and regulations are “in the hands of many, not a few,” as per the Athenian democracy. Athens provides a political model for its surroundings and is uninterested about how the city-state is administered by its neighbors. 6. Explain how you think Pericles would justify the invasion of Melos. I presume Pericles would defend the conquest of Melos by declaring that it was a form of intimidation, and that Melos’ independence was weak and humiliating. Classical Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle: Questions 7- Instructions: Read the document “Classical Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.” Then, read each excerpt and question below. Use the information from the reading documents and sections to answer the questions. Primary Source Analysis: Read the excerpt from Plato’s The Republic and answer the questions 2 Excerpt from The Republic by Plato “Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike… Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide…cities will have no rest from evils…nor, I think, will the human race.”
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