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The Outbreak of War - Coggle Diagram
The Outbreak of War
The Plague of Athens
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Thucydides reports that the Athenians blamed Pericles because they made the connection between the squalid living conditions and the outbreak
They then deprived him of his command and issued a large fine, but soon realised there was no apt replacement so invited him to take up his position again
Pericles had lost his two legitimate sons to the plague, and then sought to bend the rules of his previous law, stating that a citizen had to have an Athenian father and mother, so that his son by the metic Aspasia could become his heir. His name was also Pericles
Pericles' Death
Pericles died of the plague in 429 and both Thucydides and Plutarch claim that his leadership skills were only fully appreciated after his death
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Strategy
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Spartan
The spartan strategy was to invade Attica every summer to devastate the fields and crops, in the hopes that the Athenians would come out and meet them on land
But Pericles urged against this, despite criticism, so the annual invasions were not very successful
the invasions could not last for too long since most Peloponnesians were farmers themselves, who needed to return and harvest their own fields
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