"Athenagoras dismisses the invasion issue and seeks to inflame passions by gratuitously raising the spectre of an oligarchic revolt."
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Harvey Yunis, "How do the People Decide? Thucydides on Periclean Rhetoric and Civic Instruction", American Journal of Philology, vol. 112, no. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 193, 194
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Athenagoras of Syracuse
(Greek: į¼ĪøĪ·Ī½Ī±Ī³ĻĻĪ±Ļ) an elusive character who is only commented on in Thucydides (6, 36ā40). The context of his speech in Thucydides is 415 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, when Athens was about to invade Sicily (Magna Graecia). He denies the invasion, rudely retorting to Hermocrates' speech that no invasion was imminent.
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