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To my mild relief, the kitchen table is excellent for homework wrangling. Hauling my laptop to the table instead of huddling at my desktop machine may not make for the best computing experience, but...that also means I'm not as distracted by all the shiny games of the iMac, while still having good old Perseus right at hand. (Oh, Perseus. Without you, I'd have to actually parse that damn Greek dictionary.) Plenty of room to spread out books, and because it's the kitchen table, nothing sits there forever, unlike my office desk.
On which note, I present to you today's Thucydides work:
2.1.1 And from this point the war between the Athenians and Peloponesians and each side's allies really begins, in which they don't even interact with each other without truce flags, and without stopping make war to destruction; and so it's written in order, each event as it happens through summer and winter.
2.2.1 For fourteen years the thirty-year treaties which happened after the capture of Euboea held firm; but in the fifteenth year, when Chrysidos had been priestess in Argos for forty-eight years, and when Einesios was rules of Sparta, and Phythadoros had ruled the Athenians for two months, in the sixth month after the battle in Potidea, and just when spring was beginning, a little more than three hundred of the men of Thebes (Pythaggelos, son of Phyledos, and Diemporos, son of Onetoridos, were leading them as Boetian rulers) entering around the first watch carrying weapons into Plataia, a Boetian holding that was allied with the Athenians.
2.2.2 Won over, the men of Plataia opened the gates, both Nauklides and his friends, planning for the sake of their own power to destroy the men of the city who opposed them and to hand over the city to the Thebans.
2.2.3 And they accomplished these things because of Euromachus, son of Leontiados, mightiest man of the Thebans. For the Thebans, seeing that the war would occur, wished for Plataia, which was always opposed to them (but still at peace), and wished to occupy it in advance, the war not yet being obvious. Indeed, entering from that point they easily escaped detection, since the guard hadn't been set.
2.2.4 Having set aside their weapons, in the assembly they were not persuaded by urgings to openly carry out action and go among the homes of their enemies; and they produced the conclusion that they should make proclamations by suitable heralds and make the city friendly (and the herald should proclaim that if anyone wished to ally with the fatherland of all the Boiotians, to set down their own weapons), considering themselves to have approached the city more easily by this method.
On which note, I present to you today's Thucydides work:
2.1.1 And from this point the war between the Athenians and Peloponesians and each side's allies really begins, in which they don't even interact with each other without truce flags, and without stopping make war to destruction; and so it's written in order, each event as it happens through summer and winter.
2.2.1 For fourteen years the thirty-year treaties which happened after the capture of Euboea held firm; but in the fifteenth year, when Chrysidos had been priestess in Argos for forty-eight years, and when Einesios was rules of Sparta, and Phythadoros had ruled the Athenians for two months, in the sixth month after the battle in Potidea, and just when spring was beginning, a little more than three hundred of the men of Thebes (Pythaggelos, son of Phyledos, and Diemporos, son of Onetoridos, were leading them as Boetian rulers) entering around the first watch carrying weapons into Plataia, a Boetian holding that was allied with the Athenians.
2.2.2 Won over, the men of Plataia opened the gates, both Nauklides and his friends, planning for the sake of their own power to destroy the men of the city who opposed them and to hand over the city to the Thebans.
2.2.3 And they accomplished these things because of Euromachus, son of Leontiados, mightiest man of the Thebans. For the Thebans, seeing that the war would occur, wished for Plataia, which was always opposed to them (but still at peace), and wished to occupy it in advance, the war not yet being obvious. Indeed, entering from that point they easily escaped detection, since the guard hadn't been set.
2.2.4 Having set aside their weapons, in the assembly they were not persuaded by urgings to openly carry out action and go among the homes of their enemies; and they produced the conclusion that they should make proclamations by suitable heralds and make the city friendly (and the herald should proclaim that if anyone wished to ally with the fatherland of all the Boiotians, to set down their own weapons), considering themselves to have approached the city more easily by this method.
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