The alethestate prophasis is in my belief the product of this fresh thinking, a statement of the common factor. As has been argued already and is most clearly seen at 118.2, the prophasis and the aitiai are for 432 merely two aspects of the same thing, since Athens' expansion was at the expense of Sparta's allies, especially of Corinth, and this is what alarmed the Spartans. The causes of the resumption of the war in 413 are nowhere so clearly stated. Thucydides lays far more stress on the means which Alkibiades suggested for harming Athens, the dispatch of Gylippos and the fortification of Dekeleia (6.93.2, 7.8.1); and on the fact that the Spartans this time believed they had formal justification (7.18.2-3): he is concerned to explain how their resolution was worked up to the point of fighting, not why they wanted to fight. But the reason is not in doubt. Alkibiades, after the personal apology with which he begins his speech (6.89), goes straight on (6.90.1) to expound Athens' plan for turning the resources of the West against the Peloponnese. It hardly needs a formal statement in the historian's own person that Sparta decided to help Syracuse and to attack Athens for fear of what might happen next if Syracuse fell. The alethestate prophasis is fully operative in 414, and Alkibiades' speech (6.90-91) is the vehicle by which Thucydides expounds it.
The alethestate prophasis is in my belief the product of this fresh thinking, a statement of the common factor. As has been argued already and is most clearly seen at 118.2, the prophasis and the aitiai are for 432 merely two aspects of the same thing, since Athens' expansion was at the expense of Sparta's allies, especially of Corinth, and this is what alarmed the Spartans. The causes of the resumption of the war in 413 are nowhere so clearly stated. Thucydides lays far more stress on the means which Alkibiades suggested for harming Athens, the dispatch of Gylippos and the fortification of Dekeleia (6.93.2, 7.8.1); and on the fact that the Spartans this time believed they had formal justification (7.18.2-3): he is concerned to explain how their resolution was worked up to the point of fighting, not why they wanted to fight. But the reason is not in doubt. Alkibiades, after the personal apology with which he begins his speech (6.89), goes straight on (6.90.1) to expound Athens' plan for turning the resources of the West against the Peloponnese. It hardly needs a formal statement in the historian's own person that Sparta decided to help Syracuse and to attack Athens for fear of what might happen next if Syracuse fell. The alethestate prophasis is fully operative in 414, and Alkibiades' speech (6.90-91) is the vehicle by which Thucydides expounds it.
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The alethestate prophasis is in my belief the product of this fresh thinking, a statement of the common factor. As has been argued already and is most clearly seen at 118.2, the prophasis and the aitiai are for 432 merely two aspects of the same thing, since Athens' expansion was at the expense of Sparta's allies, especially of Corinth, and this is what alarmed the Spartans. The causes of the resumption of the war in 413 are nowhere so clearly stated. Thucydides lays far more stress on the means which Alkibiades suggested for harming Athens, the dispatch of Gylippos and the fortification of Dekeleia (6.93.2, 7.8.1); and on the fact that the Spartans this time believed they had formal justification (7.18.2-3): he is concerned to explain how their resolution was worked up to the point of fighting, not why they wanted to fight. But the reason is not in doubt. Alkibiades, after the personal apology with which he begins his speech (6.89), goes straight on (6.90.1) to expound Athens' plan for turning the resources of the West against the Peloponnese. It hardly needs a formal statement in the historian's own person that Sparta decided to help Syracuse and to attack Athens for fear of what might happen next if Syracuse fell. The alethestate prophasis is fully operative in 414, and Alkibiades' speech (6.90-91) is the vehicle by which Thucydides expounds it.
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