Welcome back to Term 3, Year 12 Ancient. We have an intensive few weeks coming up, where we will aim to finish the rest of the course, and begin revising for the Trial HSC. Tutorials will start next week, most probably on Monday afternoons at 1.30 or so. I will keep you posted on that.
For now, here are the links to the ancient Roman sources (written by Cornelius Nepos, c.50BC) on some famous ancient commanders:
Miltiades
Themistocles
Aristides the Just
Pausanias
Cimon
Remember, you need to know all five of these guys for the HSC, plus Eurybiades and Leonidas.
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Thmistocles: from VI downwards is all a little hazy. Does our knowledge of Themistocles have to include only his performance and role in the Greak Wars, or do the focus of the HSC questions demand the students know what happened in the post-war period too?
ReplyDeleteFor instance, should we note that disagreements between Sparta and Athens occurred before the osctacism of Themistocles? Is this fortification foreshadowing to the Athenian empire?
Is Cornelius Nepos a reliable historian? Who is he? Is this him? And if so, he wrote a good 400 years after anyone else. Who might his sources have been? The usual Thucydides, Plutarch, Herodotus?
Another website said the focus of his studies was mainly on the accomplishments of famous personalities, kings, historians, philosophers and scholars, and so this would have affected his reception of them across various texts.
& this would be awesome... were it in English!
Um. That's about it. But I'm only up to Themistocles, so.. there could be more questions. <.<
ETA: ".. but I give credence to Thucydides in preference to others'.
ReplyDeleteRe: Themistocles. The syllabus only really requires you to know about his role and contribtuion during the Persian Wars, but of course any contextual knowledge will be of benefit. For example, the fact that he was later ostracised and moved to Persia, ties in to the dot points about ostracism and the later history of the Persian Wars.
ReplyDeleteRe: Athens and Sparta - definitely take into account any signs of disagreements between the city states, even during 480-479BC, when they stood shoulder to shoulder.
Re: Cornelius Nepos. As far as I can work out, he relied on the same Ancient Greek sources as we do today. Remember, he was working on texts that were as old to him,as Shakespeare is to us. Bear in mind that the Romans were very big fans of anything Greek, and they loved to idolise old military heroes such as Pausanias or Miltiades. This would colour any accounts written by Nepos.