{"id":34006,"date":"2023-09-18T05:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/essay-on-the-melian-dialogue-from-thucydides-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T05:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:20:56","slug":"essay-on-the-melian-dialogue-from-thucydides-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/essay-on-the-melian-dialogue-from-thucydides-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay on the Melian Dialogue (from Thucydides\u2019 History of the Peloponnesian War)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Assignment: Essay on the Melian Dialogue (from Thucydides\u2019<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">History of the Peloponnesian War<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Please write a short essay (4 pages) addressing the following question:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Thucydides\u2019 History of the Peloponnesian War includes a famous dialogue between the Athenians and the Melians over the future of the Island of Melos. Explain two of the arguments the Athenians used to try to persuade the Melians to surrender. Then discuss how the Melians justify their resistance to Athenian conquest. Which arguments do you find more persuasive or convincing? Why? Explain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Melian Dialogue is accessible online at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">http:\/\/classics.mit.edu\/Thucydides\/pelopwar.5.fifth.html&nbsp;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Due Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Paper should be written in Microsoft Word format&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment: Essay on the Melian Dialogue (from Thucydides\u2019&nbsp;History of the Peloponnesian War). Please write a short essay (4 pages) addressing the following question: Thucydides\u2019 History of the Peloponnesian War includes a famous dialogue between the Athenians and the Melians over the future of the Island of Melos. Explain two of the arguments the Athenians used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34006"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34006"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}