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Date Posted: 09:19:29 02/15/02 Fri
Author: Skyler Chick
Subject: Re: Topic 2
In reply to: joshua tartakoff 's message, "Re: Topic 2" on 18:53:27 02/13/02 Wed

I think that the Athenians had the right to feel proud of themselves for some things, but not everything that Pericles gives them credit for. The Athenians certainly deserved to be credited for the beauty of there land and for their architecture. The Athenians also had some very skilled artisans and traders to be proud of and for their advancements in art. Because of the water surrounding Greece, trade by sea was a very available occupation and brought much art to their homeland.

In Pericles "Funeral Oration" he shows pride in the Athenian army and expresses its superiority over other armies of Greece. This however is incorrect. The Spartans had a much stronger army that spent much time conquering others. Pericles also says that the Athenians should be proud of their well-rounded government. In the "Funeral Oration" he says how the government was a democracy and was held in the hands of the public. The government was actually controlled by aristocrats which were nobles who owned land. The majority of the citizens of Athens were not of nobility but mostly consisted of merchants. These merchants later expressed discontentment with the government and requested reform.

Pericles also includes in his "Funeral Oration" that the school in Athens is the School of Greece, implying their superiority. If the school in Athens was truly the School of Greece, then people from all over Greece must go to this school. This also is an exxageration because only people from the city-state of Athens went to that school. Because of the rough terrain in Greece, people did not have the ability to travel by land.

Therefore, several comments that Pericles said were not all that true yet some of them were.

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