POWER AND PRETEXT: THE STATUS OF JUSTICE IN THUCYDIDES
... have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. (1.22.4) According to Strauss, Thucydides rewrote the speeches so that they would become true; “the true speech is the speech as heard by the man of the highest political understanding ...
... have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. (1.22.4) According to Strauss, Thucydides rewrote the speeches so that they would become true; “the true speech is the speech as heard by the man of the highest political understanding ...
THE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE OF ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY
... centred on political themes may invigorate discussion between the audience members about their civic life. This thesis may demonstrate an important role that theatre, or art ...
... centred on political themes may invigorate discussion between the audience members about their civic life. This thesis may demonstrate an important role that theatre, or art ...
A short biography of Pericles
... Thucydides [not the historian], a noble and distinguished citizen, later took Cimon's place as Pericles' principal political opponent in Athens. When the king of Sparta asked Thucydides whether he or Pericles was the better wrestler, Thucydides said: "When I throw him and get the fall, he insists th ...
... Thucydides [not the historian], a noble and distinguished citizen, later took Cimon's place as Pericles' principal political opponent in Athens. When the king of Sparta asked Thucydides whether he or Pericles was the better wrestler, Thucydides said: "When I throw him and get the fall, he insists th ...
PDF - UWA Research Repository
... chose between the punishments suggested by the defendant and prosecutor when the law did not prescribe a penalty. The presiding magistrate was powerless to give direction and the jurors decided all questions of fact and law for themselves, without being bound by precedent. No appeal was possible aga ...
... chose between the punishments suggested by the defendant and prosecutor when the law did not prescribe a penalty. The presiding magistrate was powerless to give direction and the jurors decided all questions of fact and law for themselves, without being bound by precedent. No appeal was possible aga ...
A Day In Old Athens
... through a good secondary school history of ancient times. This naturally has led to comments and descriptions which more advanced students may find superfluous. The writer has been under a heavy debt to the numerous and excellent works on Greek "Private Antiquities" and "Public Life" written in Engl ...
... through a good secondary school history of ancient times. This naturally has led to comments and descriptions which more advanced students may find superfluous. The writer has been under a heavy debt to the numerous and excellent works on Greek "Private Antiquities" and "Public Life" written in Engl ...
- ShareILL
... fifth century) often favored an aggressive stance toward Sparta or its allies (e.g., Ephialtes, Pericles, Cleon). By conservative I mean to connote those individuals who resisted such liberalization, and who (in the fifth century) usually preferred peace with Sparta to a policy that might antagonize ...
... fifth century) often favored an aggressive stance toward Sparta or its allies (e.g., Ephialtes, Pericles, Cleon). By conservative I mean to connote those individuals who resisted such liberalization, and who (in the fifth century) usually preferred peace with Sparta to a policy that might antagonize ...
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
... and party purposes. Whether led sometimes to censure, or more often to vindicate the Athenian people, I am not conscious of any other desire than that of strict, faithful, impartial justice. Restlessly to seek among the ancient institutions for illustrations (rarely apposite) of the modern, is, inde ...
... and party purposes. Whether led sometimes to censure, or more often to vindicate the Athenian people, I am not conscious of any other desire than that of strict, faithful, impartial justice. Restlessly to seek among the ancient institutions for illustrations (rarely apposite) of the modern, is, inde ...
Document
... war they were entering might well decide their slavery, and since the Greek cities of Asia had already been enslaved, all men assumed that those of Greece would also suffer a similar fate. [3] But the war, contrary to expectation, came to an amazing end, and not only were the peoples of Greece freed ...
... war they were entering might well decide their slavery, and since the Greek cities of Asia had already been enslaved, all men assumed that those of Greece would also suffer a similar fate. [3] But the war, contrary to expectation, came to an amazing end, and not only were the peoples of Greece freed ...
POLITICS AND EURIPIDES by SUSAN C. LAFONT, BA A THESIS IN
... did not agree on the nature of the cosmos, the definition of right or wrong, or whether the world of the senses was reality or illusion; rather they shared the common ground of consistent questioning in their search for knowledge. In Athens some of the more prominent sophists such as Protagoras, Ana ...
... did not agree on the nature of the cosmos, the definition of right or wrong, or whether the world of the senses was reality or illusion; rather they shared the common ground of consistent questioning in their search for knowledge. In Athens some of the more prominent sophists such as Protagoras, Ana ...
Aspasia - People Server at UNCW
... The plague in Athens in 430 B.C. killed both of Pericles' sons by his first wife. This led him to ask for an exemption from the citizenship law, which he himself had enacted, for his illegimate son by Aspasia. The citizenship law decreed that only persons whose father and mother were both Athenians ...
... The plague in Athens in 430 B.C. killed both of Pericles' sons by his first wife. This led him to ask for an exemption from the citizenship law, which he himself had enacted, for his illegimate son by Aspasia. The citizenship law decreed that only persons whose father and mother were both Athenians ...
Author of Illusions - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... war for someone who wished to explore the baneful effects of mass conflict on states, institutions, and civilizations. A universal theory of history and historical action needs a fitting laboratory in which to put it to the test, and for Thucydides this contemporary, “greatest” of all wars would see ...
... war for someone who wished to explore the baneful effects of mass conflict on states, institutions, and civilizations. A universal theory of history and historical action needs a fitting laboratory in which to put it to the test, and for Thucydides this contemporary, “greatest” of all wars would see ...
Introduction
... from gone and its influence on the Ionian cities strong. The Achaemenid Empire therefore needs more attention than it used to have when surveying fifth-century Miletus. Thirdly, the traditional image is almost entirely based on Greek literary sources and Athenian epigraphic material. Yet, after exam ...
... from gone and its influence on the Ionian cities strong. The Achaemenid Empire therefore needs more attention than it used to have when surveying fifth-century Miletus. Thirdly, the traditional image is almost entirely based on Greek literary sources and Athenian epigraphic material. Yet, after exam ...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCRATES IN THE
... tion. Socrates, and two young men with him, were said to have attempted to inter‐ vene unarmed against the Scythian guards, stopped only when Theramenes himself implored them to desist (Diodorus Siculus 14.5.1‐3, likely apocryphal). After Thera‐ menes' execution, many citizens left the wa ...
... tion. Socrates, and two young men with him, were said to have attempted to inter‐ vene unarmed against the Scythian guards, stopped only when Theramenes himself implored them to desist (Diodorus Siculus 14.5.1‐3, likely apocryphal). After Thera‐ menes' execution, many citizens left the wa ...
Alcibiades Christian Jones Col Sheldon HI-304
... conflicts so the soldiers would be rested in case of any needed conquests.14 Then he attempted to initiate a Persian-Athenian alliance, which was said only to be possible if Athens had an Oligopoly, so Alcibiades persuaded Athens to over throw the democracy and have an Oligopoly for a short period o ...
... conflicts so the soldiers would be rested in case of any needed conquests.14 Then he attempted to initiate a Persian-Athenian alliance, which was said only to be possible if Athens had an Oligopoly, so Alcibiades persuaded Athens to over throw the democracy and have an Oligopoly for a short period o ...
hermocrates the syracusan1 - Manchester eScholar
... exploit the situation created thereby in the interests of Syracusan imperialism, but his speech does not prove that he was one of them, and it cannot be assumed that he prompted, or indeed approved of, subsequent action taken by Syracuse. There is no evidence that at any time in his career he encour ...
... exploit the situation created thereby in the interests of Syracusan imperialism, but his speech does not prove that he was one of them, and it cannot be assumed that he prompted, or indeed approved of, subsequent action taken by Syracuse. There is no evidence that at any time in his career he encour ...
Edith Foster, Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism and
... ‘rescue’ Thucydides from too close an association with aggressive imperialism—to show that he both anticipated the failure of the policy from the beginning, and rejected its underlying principles—it succeeds in doing this only by reinforcing the view of the historian as a typical anti-democrat and d ...
... ‘rescue’ Thucydides from too close an association with aggressive imperialism—to show that he both anticipated the failure of the policy from the beginning, and rejected its underlying principles—it succeeds in doing this only by reinforcing the view of the historian as a typical anti-democrat and d ...
The Battlefield of History: Megara, Athens, and the Mythic Past
... Boeotia, and Sparta. Megara was a powerful city in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, trading throughout the Aegean and controlling much of the economic productivity of the region. 4 Megarian attempts to influence and dictate Athenian politics were not unknown in the 7th century BC.5 As Athens began to c ...
... Boeotia, and Sparta. Megara was a powerful city in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, trading throughout the Aegean and controlling much of the economic productivity of the region. 4 Megarian attempts to influence and dictate Athenian politics were not unknown in the 7th century BC.5 As Athens began to c ...
Why Seize the Acropolis?
... is probably true of the polemarkhos and the curiously named epilykeion.24 The name of the thesmotheteion, on the other hand, seems to indicate that this was a structure purposely built for the thesmothetai. The exact locations of the boukoleion, epilykeion and thesmotheteion are unknown. The Athenai ...
... is probably true of the polemarkhos and the curiously named epilykeion.24 The name of the thesmotheteion, on the other hand, seems to indicate that this was a structure purposely built for the thesmothetai. The exact locations of the boukoleion, epilykeion and thesmotheteion are unknown. The Athenai ...
Socrates
... have lost his case by about thirty votes. Meletus, who was presiding over the trial, had proposed the penalty of death. Athenian procedure called for convicted defendants to recommend an alternative penalty, and it seems clear that Socrates’ accusers expected him to propose exile – and would have be ...
... have lost his case by about thirty votes. Meletus, who was presiding over the trial, had proposed the penalty of death. Athenian procedure called for convicted defendants to recommend an alternative penalty, and it seems clear that Socrates’ accusers expected him to propose exile – and would have be ...
Gadfly on Trial: Socrates as Citizen and Social Critic
... fools appropriate to business as usual in the democratic state. He has established that he himself is a dignified private citizen rather than a pandering politician. But in the process he has also revealed that an active political life, one that included speaking out in the citizen Assembly, is imp ...
... fools appropriate to business as usual in the democratic state. He has established that he himself is a dignified private citizen rather than a pandering politician. But in the process he has also revealed that an active political life, one that included speaking out in the citizen Assembly, is imp ...
centauromachy - Astro*Synthesis
... motif suggests how the consciousness of the 5th century Greek had been impacted by the experience of the barbarian. Aischylos, in 472 BCE, produced his play the Persians. He condemned the Persians on moral, ethical and religious grounds. Aischylos’ voice confirmed that ‘the Athenian rationale for t ...
... motif suggests how the consciousness of the 5th century Greek had been impacted by the experience of the barbarian. Aischylos, in 472 BCE, produced his play the Persians. He condemned the Persians on moral, ethical and religious grounds. Aischylos’ voice confirmed that ‘the Athenian rationale for t ...
Rood 2009 - Sites@Duke
... It is essential for the design of the narrative that the account of the Persian Wars that Thucydides does give is placed where it is. It prepares for Thucydides' account of Athens' rise to power straight after the Persian Wars (the Pentekontaetia): an account that justifies Thucydides' claim that th ...
... It is essential for the design of the narrative that the account of the Persian Wars that Thucydides does give is placed where it is. It prepares for Thucydides' account of Athens' rise to power straight after the Persian Wars (the Pentekontaetia): an account that justifies Thucydides' claim that th ...
Socrates: His Life and Times
... finances. These four hundred were supposed to choose five thousand to act as the city's ultimate governing body, but they, in fact, kept all power in their own hands. The oligarchic regime did not last more than a few months, however. In Athens, the oligarchs soon lost their unity by struggling with ...
... finances. These four hundred were supposed to choose five thousand to act as the city's ultimate governing body, but they, in fact, kept all power in their own hands. The oligarchic regime did not last more than a few months, however. In Athens, the oligarchs soon lost their unity by struggling with ...
A Mind at War: Erga Paraloga in Thucydides` History
... Rhetoric, as has been and always will be noted by readers of Thucydides, holds incredible sway over the vulnerable mind. The volatile Athenian democracy, in particular, was at the mercy of words and ideas that would influence them by speaking to their ambitious and exalted view of their state. Thucy ...
... Rhetoric, as has been and always will be noted by readers of Thucydides, holds incredible sway over the vulnerable mind. The volatile Athenian democracy, in particular, was at the mercy of words and ideas that would influence them by speaking to their ambitious and exalted view of their state. Thucy ...
American School of Classical Studies
... the Late Bronze Age it was used as a cemetery, and some 50 graves have been found, dating from 1600 to 1100 b.c. These are mostly chamber tombs, with multiple burials. It continued in use as a cemetery throughout the Iron Age (1100–700 b.c.) and over 80 graves, both burials and cremations, have been ...
... the Late Bronze Age it was used as a cemetery, and some 50 graves have been found, dating from 1600 to 1100 b.c. These are mostly chamber tombs, with multiple burials. It continued in use as a cemetery throughout the Iron Age (1100–700 b.c.) and over 80 graves, both burials and cremations, have been ...