LECTURE 6A QUESTIONS

Who is considered the primary source for the Peloponnesian War?

• Herodotus
• Thucydides
• Sophocles
• Pericles

Why is Thucydides considered a superior historian to Herodotus?

• He included mythology in his accounts
• He took detailed notes and participated in the war
• He interviewed gods
• He glorified Athens exclusively

Thucydides is often praised for being:

• Patriotic
• Superstitious
• Dispassionate
• Comedic

What does it mean that Thucydides was a "scientific historian"?

• He performed lab experiments
• He focused on cause and effect and excluded the gods
• He studied biology
• He believed in oracles

Thucydides wanted his history to:

• Entertain
• Instruct leaders and show consequences of war
• Promote religion
• Praise Sparta

Which war did Thucydides document?

• Persian Wars
• Trojan War
• Peloponnesian War
• Macedonian War

What caused Sparta to fear Athens before the war?

• Athens' defeat in Persia
• Athenian expansion
• Spartan economic collapse
• Religious differences

Which alliance was led by Athens?

• Peloponnesian League
• Delian League
• Hellenic League
• Corinthian League

What was one of the incidents that angered Corinth?

• Theban invasion
• Athens taking Potidaea
• Spartan treaty with Persia
• Megarian revolt

Why did Athens target Megara?

• They were pro-Spartan
• To force them into the Delian League
• To steal resources
• For revenge