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Thucydides passage Jiang uses to show Athenian empire speaking openly in coercive terms.
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Melian Dialogue
Thucydides passage Jiang uses to show Athenian empire speaking openly in coercive terms.
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Jiang introduces the Melian Dialogue as evidence that Athens coerced allies and islands that wanted out of its war.
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Jiang reads the Melian Dialogue as Athens abandoning liberty rhetoric for pure imperial might: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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"Athenian population including Pericles and his two sons all right so uh can you can you read this so what's happening is that you..."
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"Athenians for ourselves we shall not trouble you with spacious specious specious pretenses either of how we have a right to our empire because..."
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"Lacedonians although they are colonists or that you have done us no wrong will aim at what is feasible holding in view that holding..."
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"so you know the Persians when they went to the Athenians basically said we are a vast empire you can't defeat us and let's..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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