UGS 303 1st Edition Lecture 12Outline of Last LectureI. Importance of peer reviewII. Importance of using the original source for quotationsIII. Pericles’ funeral orationOutline of Current LectureI. Human v. BeastII. How did democracy go wrong?III. The Sicilian ExpeditionCurrent LectureA relief sculpture of a human fighting a centaur, found at the ParthenonI. Human or Beast? A. Woodruff uses the above sculpture as a representation of the strugglebetween man (logic, order) and his inner beast (passion, chaos). B. Which character is morehuman? 1. Thucydides wouldsay both. C. In the same way, which is the real Athens? The city of oration, or the city ofplague? II. Ask yourself: how did democracy in Athens go wrong? A. Would a non-democracy have handled warbetter? III. The Sicilian Expedition A. It was motivated by greed B. An example of hubris, overreaching, going too
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