Posted: December 9th, 2014

Roots of western culture (Democracy and Imperialism)

NOTE: This assignment is worth 30 points and is due in class at the beginning of class on Monday, June 2, 2014. Remember that every day this assignment is late (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays included) you will receive a 10% grade reduction for this assignment.

In the Thucydides textbook, Pericles’ Funeral Oration (pgs. 39-46), praises Athens and its democracy and contrasts it with Sparta. It is, in other words, a thinly veiled criticism of Sparta. In this assignment you will choose four of the topics below and briefly describe Pericles’ praise of the superiority of the Athenian system and how it is a direct contrast with Sparta. In addition to the Funeral Oration, the sources you should use for this are the D2L reading on Lycurgus, and your lecture notes and the handout on the Spartan government. Your description should be a total of 3-4 paragraphs in length.

Example:
In his funeral oration, Pericles states that Athen s has a unique form of government “called a democracy because it is managed not for a few people, but for the majority” (Thucydides 2.37, pg. 40). This is in direct contrast with the Sparta. In the Spartan system, only the minority of the population, those that are actually Spartiates, are allowed to participate in government. The other two classes, the helots and perioikoi, which constitute the majority of the population, have no say in the government.

Topics to choose from:
1. Equality before the law (Thucydides pg. 40, section 37)
2. Equality not in regard to birth, but excellence (Thucydides pg. 40, section 37)
3. Freedom (Thucydides pgs. 40-41, section 37)
4. City of Athens = Recreation for minds, cosmopolitan, lovers of beauty without extravagance (Thucydides pg. 41, section 38)
5. City is open to all – not secretive (Thucydides pg. 41, section 39)
6. Security through courage, not secrecy (Thucydides pgs. 41-42, section 39)
7. Wisdom and Restraint (Thucydides pg. 42, section 40)
8. Take council before action (Thucydides pg. 42, section 40)

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you are quoting from Pericles’ speech in the Thucydides textbook and if you quote from the D2L reading on Lycurgus, you must cite the passage at the end of the quote. For example: In his funeral oration, Pericles states that Athens has a unique form of government “called a democracy because it is managed not for a few people, but for the majority” (Thucydides 2.37, pg. 40). When using a quote from the Lycurgus reading, cite it as follows: “Determined, therefore, to banish insolence and envy and crime and luxury, and those yet more deep-seated and afflictive diseases of the state, poverty and wealth…” (Lycurgus 8).
CLAS 160B1 – summer 2014
Assignment #3

NOTE: This assignment is worth 30 points and is due in class at the beginning of class on Monday, June 2, 2014. Remember that every day this assignment is late (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays included) you will receive a 10% grade reduction for this assignment.

In the Thucydides textbook, Pericles’ Funeral Oration (pgs. 39-46), praises Athens and its democracy and contrasts it with Sparta. It is, in other words, a thinly veiled criticism of Sparta. In this assignment you will choose four of the topics below and briefly describe Pericles’ praise of the superiority of the Athenian system and how it is a direct contrast with Sparta. In addition to the Funeral Oration, the sources you should use for this are the D2L reading on Lycurgus, and your lecture notes and the handout on the Spartan government. Your description should be a total of 3-4 paragraphs in length.

Example:
In his funeral oration, Pericles states that Athen s has a unique form of government “called a democracy because it is managed not for a few people, but for the majority” (Thucydides 2.37, pg. 40). This is in direct contrast with the Sparta. In the Spartan system, only the minority of the population, those that are actually Spartiates, are allowed to participate in government. The other two classes, the helots and perioikoi, which constitute the majority of the population, have no say in the government.

Topics to choose from:
1. Equality before the law (Thucydides pg. 40, section 37)
2. Equality not in regard to birth, but excellence (Thucydides pg. 40, section 37)
3. Freedom (Thucydides pgs. 40-41, section 37)
4. City of Athens = Recreation for minds, cosmopolitan, lovers of beauty without extravagance (Thucydides pg. 41, section 38)
5. City is open to all – not secretive (Thucydides pg. 41, section 39)
6. Security through courage, not secrecy (Thucydides pgs. 41-42, section 39)
7. Wisdom and Restraint (Thucydides pg. 42, section 40)
8. Take council before action (Thucydides pg. 42, section 40)

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you are quoting from Pericles’ speech in the Thucydides textbook and if you quote from the D2L reading on Lycurgus, you must cite the passage at the end of the quote. For example: In his funeral oration, Pericles states that Athens has a unique form of government “called a democracy because it is managed not for a few people, but for the majority” (Thucydides 2.37, pg. 40). When using a quote from the Lycurgus reading, cite it as follows: “Determined, therefore, to banish

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