1. Both Thucydides (in his retelling of Pericles’ Funeral Oration) and Seneca (in On Tranquility of Mind) address the concept of virtue (Thucydides of civic virtue and Seneca of individual virtue), and thus provide the modern reader with insight into how their respective civilizations understood the concept.

1. Both Thucydides (in his retelling of Pericles’ Funeral Oration) and Seneca (in On Tranquility of Mind) address the concept of virtue (Thucydides of civic virtue and Seneca of individual virtue), and thus provide the modern reader with insight into how their respective civilizations understood the concept. Pointing to and analyzing specific concepts that each discusses in the primary source documents from the Learning Activities, explain how these two authors convey the differences between their two civilizations’ worldviews.

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