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Episode 92, The End of an era, part 2.

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And now let us turn our attention back to the ancient Greeks.

Demoralized by the plague and the breakdown of their city and frustrated by being

forbidden to march out and offer battle twice now. Thucydides says that the Athenians

again blamed Pericles for persuading them to go to war and began to hold him responsible for all of their misfortunes.

Some looked a religion to support their discontent, recalling an oracle from the recent past that had predicted that a Dorian war will come

and plague with it, which implicitly cast blame on Pericles for starting a war with the Spartans

when he knew that plague would soon follow.

Public perception was made even worse since the plague that ravaged Athens had not entered

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