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13 Cards in this Set
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Plutarch
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what motivates people
parallel lives/moralia Pericles - how spending started the war-the stamp act |
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Tacitus
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Model for Jefferson (insight to prevent past mistakes from reoccuring)
recognized over ambitious (tyranny) virtue (decline morality)/freedom of speech |
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Herodotus
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Father of History
Histories Human reasons to explain conflict |
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Suetonius
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12 Casears
not factual over ambitous (how rulers change when they come to power) republic=good, empire=bad |
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Sallust
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'Punic Curse" decline of morality in Rome
Jurgatine War/Catilines Conspiracy |
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Polybius
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Histories (rise of rome)
proponent of mixed government (good forms of government will degenerate into the bad forms) |
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Pericles
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Athenian General
"funeral Oration" first democracy |
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Vergil
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TJ, agriculuture, lousiana purchase
relationship with man and divine aneidid/ecolouges |
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Livy
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history of rome
traditional Roman values - suscess(avoid Casear) |
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Xenophon
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Finished Pelo. Wars
Cyropedia - how to educate a leader (anti Paideia) anti-democractic |
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Thucydides
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Pelo. War
underlying/direct reasons (no god/fate) why nations come into conflict |
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Themistocles
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Hellenistic League
band together in times of need ostrasized |
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Cinncinatus
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free republic
model for washington surrenedered power and went back to plow |
