Mytilenean Debate
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The Mytilenean Debate is a famous episode in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War in which the Athenian Assembly fiercely reconsidered and ultimately moderated a previously decreed mass punishment of the rebellious city of Mytilene, highlighting tensions between justice, expediency, and imperial power.
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