![]() Link to view complete series of blogs on the Peloponnesian Wars: He was constantly telling his fellow citizens that if it were up to him, they would remain immortal forever.” He was never prepared to join battle when there was considerable uncertainty and risk, nor did he admire and model himself on those commanders who were acclaimed as great, but who enjoyed brilliant good fortune at the risk of their own lives. Plutarch says, that “as a military commander, Pericles was famous chiefly for his caution. In the first video we reflected on Pericles and his reforms leading to the Radical Democracy of Athens in the years leading up to the war. ![]() This is second video and blog where we examine both history and Plutarch’s moral biographies of the key Athenian leaders before and in the first years of the war. ![]()
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