This experience will introduce students to the Peloponnesian War (5th c. BCE), which forever changed the political landscape of Ancient Greece and was one of the most significant wars in the history of the world.
Interpreting and analyzing primary sources for both sides of the conflict, students will be asked to think about the perspective of both city-states at the start of the war.
Students will take into account two different sources of evidence we use to create history: literary and archaeological evidence. Texts include in them the bias of the author, in this case Thucydides and his love of Athens. Archaeological evidence is in need of interpretation by the archaeologist or the historian who is called to make sense of the past, so the bias in this case is on the part of a person far removed from the past.
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