True or False?
1. _______ Thucydides wrote his History basing his time descriptions on winters and summers of each year of the war.
2. _______ The first word in Greek of Book 2 is “ARKHETAI”,which means ‘begins’.
3. _______ Thucydides died of the Plague in Athens, which explains how he was able to describe it so accurately in his History of the Peloponnesuan War.
4. _______ Pericles died of the Plague, which partly explains why Athens came to be governed poorly after 429 BCE.
5. _______ Theseus created the Athenian state with the ‘synoikia’, which means ‘unification’.
6. _______ Archidamos the Spartan King was a bitter foe of Athens.
7. _______ During the Peloponnesian war, there was much available space inside the walls of Athens because so many men were away at war.
8. _______ Pericles in the Funeral Oration says that Athens is “a medication for Hellas” because it has such a healthy political
outlook.
9. _______ Pericles encourages Athenian women to speak out for democracy and to support the troops by being active in public affairs.
10. _______ Pericles says that the Athenians whose families have lost fathers must now work harder to pay for their children’s upbringing.
11. _______ Athenians became more religious while experiencing the plague.
12. _______ Athenians became more careful about their burial practices during the plague.
13. _______ “Stasis” in Thucydides means ‘civil strife’, among other things.
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