Place & time- he wrote this book in athens during the war, around 431-404bc.
Prior knowledge- all my prior knowledge came from the pelponnisian war video.i know that this happened because athens put up a wall and trap every one inside to protect them from the spartas.
Audience- thucydides possibly wrote this for people out side on the pelponnesian war who did not know that this was going on.
Reason- one reason thucydides could have written this book was for younger generations to come.
The main idea- the main idea of this passage was the athenian plague.
Significants- this is important because it is a unbiased and very descriptive documentation on the plague of athens.
quote- Now let every man, physician or other, concerning the ground of this sickness, whence it sprung, and what causes he thinks able to produce so great an alteration, speak according to his own knowledge- thucydides
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