The Pentecontaetia (479 - 431 BC)

Question 1

Thucydides on the cause for war

Answer 1

“what made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta” - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian war

Question 2

Thucydides on Athens successfully besieging sestos

Answer 2

“Sestos […] they became masters of the place” - Thucydides, the history of the Peloponnesian war

Question 3

Thucydides on Naxos being forced to join in the Delian League

Answer 3

“the first case when the original constitution of the League was broken” - Thucydides, the history of the peloponnesian war

Question 4

Thucydides on the Megaraian decree

Answer 4

Megara was “excluded from all the ports in the Athenian Empire” - Thucydides, the history of the Peloponnesian war

Question 5

Thucydides on Sparta asking for peace

Answer 5

“The Lacedaemonians call you to a peace and end of the war” - Thucydides, the history of the Peloponnesian war

Question 6

Thucydides on Corinth and Megara’s border war

Answer 6

“was the principle cause of the Corinthians conceiving such a deadly hatred against Athens” - Thucydides, the history of the Peloponnesian war

Question 7

Plutarch on Cimon at the battle of Eurymedon

Answer 7

“There was no one who humbled the Great King himself […] more than Kimon” - Plutarch, Cimon