Episode 2 – Thucydides Book 1 – Part 1

In this episode, we begin actually reading Thucydides, covering the first large chunk of Book I. We cover the pre-history of Greece in broad strokes, how Greece came to be relatively wealthy and powerful, how some of it poleis came to be richer and more powerful than others, a brief overview of the Persian Wars and what happened between them and the Pelopennesian War, and then begin a detailed overview of the inciting incidents for the war that serves as the subject for this book.

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