HI 244 Thucydides & the Peloponnesian War
This course is a seminar that examines the Peloponnesian War and the brilliant historian who reported it. The class begins with ancient Greek history and the institutions of the polis and discussion of topics connected with the Great War itself, such as Periclean strategy, the plague in Athens, civil war in Corcyra, Pylos affair, Sicilian expedition, and oligarchic revolution.