Read this passage from chapter 5 of The
Prince.
There are, for example, the Spartans and the
Romans. The Spartans held Athens and
Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy:
What text evidence supports Machiavelli's
secondary purpose to inform readers about
the tactics Sparta and Rome used to hold
cities and their effectiveness? Select three
options.
nevertheless they lost them. The Romans, in the list of cities conquered by Sparta and Rome
order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia,
dismantled them, and did not lose them. They
wished to hold Greece as the Spartans held
it, making it free and permitting its laws, and
did not succeed. So to hold it they were
compelled to dismantle many cities in the
country, for in truth there is no safe way to
retain them otherwise than by ruining them.
And he who becomes master of a city
accustomed to freedom and does not destroy
it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in
Mark this and return
the description of how Sparta had held Greece
the explanation of why Rome dismantled Greek cities
the characterization of liberty as a "watchword" of
rebellion
477
the example of Pisa rebelling against the Florentines
Save and Evit