Leo Strauss on Thucydides - National Humanities Institute
... As such, “Thucydides’ argument in favor of Sparta, of moderation, of the divine law—important as it is—is only part of his teaching.”33 Strauss’s explicit-judgment approach fails to yield a conclusion because Thucydides’ surface teaching is contradictory. In the first sections of his essay, Strauss ...
... As such, “Thucydides’ argument in favor of Sparta, of moderation, of the divine law—important as it is—is only part of his teaching.”33 Strauss’s explicit-judgment approach fails to yield a conclusion because Thucydides’ surface teaching is contradictory. In the first sections of his essay, Strauss ...
the price of failure
... relatively few negative comments about Nicias recorded before the time of Plutarch, especially considering the political awareness and aggressive humor of the Athenian comic poets of the late fifth century. The only significant literary source before Plutarch (and, given that it forms the bulk of P ...
... relatively few negative comments about Nicias recorded before the time of Plutarch, especially considering the political awareness and aggressive humor of the Athenian comic poets of the late fifth century. The only significant literary source before Plutarch (and, given that it forms the bulk of P ...
Alcibiades - Miss Allaker`s Classical Studies
... but his bios, his way of life as it was viewed by his contemporaries. In so doing he discusses nearly the full range of rhetorical, historical, and philosophical sources.2 He also considers the role of the individual in Athenian ideology, literature, and history. G.'s book will therefore interest bo ...
... but his bios, his way of life as it was viewed by his contemporaries. In so doing he discusses nearly the full range of rhetorical, historical, and philosophical sources.2 He also considers the role of the individual in Athenian ideology, literature, and history. G.'s book will therefore interest bo ...
After the Democracy: Athens under Phocion (322/1 – 319/8 B.C.)
... also a few ancient historians who offer some insight into the events of this period. Diodorus is a useful resource. He examines the causes of the Lamian War and gives a detailed list of the Greeks that joined the fight for freedom and autonomy. He also provides a reasonable account of the struggle ...
... also a few ancient historians who offer some insight into the events of this period. Diodorus is a useful resource. He examines the causes of the Lamian War and gives a detailed list of the Greeks that joined the fight for freedom and autonomy. He also provides a reasonable account of the struggle ...
Aristophanes on Alcibiades - Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
... explain on purely literary grounds why Aristophanes added the latter passage. Aeschylus won all three rounds of the test of the scales (1378-1410), and it would have been natural for Dionysus to declare him the winner. Instead, the god professes to be still undecided, and announces that he will sift ...
... explain on purely literary grounds why Aristophanes added the latter passage. Aeschylus won all three rounds of the test of the scales (1378-1410), and it would have been natural for Dionysus to declare him the winner. Instead, the god professes to be still undecided, and announces that he will sift ...
- LSE Theses Online
... development of hubris tends to fray the bonds of attachment that support community and to encourage discord, hatred and violence. By finally breaking these bonds, the hubristic actor sows the seeds of a catastrophic reconfiguration of society that often leads to his or her own destruction. This is, ...
... development of hubris tends to fray the bonds of attachment that support community and to encourage discord, hatred and violence. By finally breaking these bonds, the hubristic actor sows the seeds of a catastrophic reconfiguration of society that often leads to his or her own destruction. This is, ...
Rhetoric and the Architecture of Empire in the Athenian Agora
... due to its multiple roles as political, commercial, and intellectual center of the ...
... due to its multiple roles as political, commercial, and intellectual center of the ...
History of the Peloponnesian War
... best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use. For in early times the Hellenes and the barbarians of the coast and islands, as communication by sea became more common, were tempted to turn pirates, under the conduct of their most powerful men; the m ...
... best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use. For in early times the Hellenes and the barbarians of the coast and islands, as communication by sea became more common, were tempted to turn pirates, under the conduct of their most powerful men; the m ...
Demosthenes and the Great man in `Against Conon`
... Conon’s actions as hubristic because doing so appealed to the jury’s biases. According to Ober, Demosthenes had to conform his arguments to: “The ideological context determined by an audience representing a cross-section of the mature (over thirty) citizen male population of Athens- overwhelmingly m ...
... Conon’s actions as hubristic because doing so appealed to the jury’s biases. According to Ober, Demosthenes had to conform his arguments to: “The ideological context determined by an audience representing a cross-section of the mature (over thirty) citizen male population of Athens- overwhelmingly m ...
PDF - UWA Research Repository
... From the mid-fifth century the Athenian democracy paid every citizen who volunteered as a juror for each day of service. This system of civic pay had the effect of reducing the loss in earnings ordinary citizens incurred by participating in government. Since the popular courts were a powerful instit ...
... From the mid-fifth century the Athenian democracy paid every citizen who volunteered as a juror for each day of service. This system of civic pay had the effect of reducing the loss in earnings ordinary citizens incurred by participating in government. Since the popular courts were a powerful instit ...
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... ascend from it to a grasp of genuine virtue. But a difculty confronts any effort to approach Thucydides text today. There would seem to be a promising indication at the start of the work that it will speak directly to the concerns of an enlightened time like our own it is written at the peak of poli ...
... ascend from it to a grasp of genuine virtue. But a difculty confronts any effort to approach Thucydides text today. There would seem to be a promising indication at the start of the work that it will speak directly to the concerns of an enlightened time like our own it is written at the peak of poli ...
Plutarch, Charinus, and the Megarian Decree
... which Plutarch knew from some source, perhaps Craterus (Per. 30.23). I shall return to this explanation shortly. The second, the Megarian story, blamed the origin of the decree, and hence Pericles' refusal to repeal it, on his anger over the theft of two of Aspasia's harlots by Megarian youths (30.4 ...
... which Plutarch knew from some source, perhaps Craterus (Per. 30.23). I shall return to this explanation shortly. The second, the Megarian story, blamed the origin of the decree, and hence Pericles' refusal to repeal it, on his anger over the theft of two of Aspasia's harlots by Megarian youths (30.4 ...
The History of the Peloponnesian War
... thus did his best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use. [5] For in early times the Hellenes and the barbarians of the coast and islands, as communication by sea became more common, were tempted to turn pirates, under the conduct of their most po ...
... thus did his best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use. [5] For in early times the Hellenes and the barbarians of the coast and islands, as communication by sea became more common, were tempted to turn pirates, under the conduct of their most po ...
THUCYDIDES: THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS
... number of those who sailed will appear inconsiderable, representing, as they did, the whole force of Hellas. XI. And this was due not so much to scarcity of men as of money. Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country du ...
... number of those who sailed will appear inconsiderable, representing, as they did, the whole force of Hellas. XI. And this was due not so much to scarcity of men as of money. Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country du ...
Brill`s Companion to Thucydides: "Warfare" by Peter Hunt "The
... goals, but there is a more charitable way to view them.36 Thucydides may not have possessed the precise information to present a detailed narrative from the commander's perspective with the exact details of orders given and of units' movements, the sort of account we associate with traditional milit ...
... goals, but there is a more charitable way to view them.36 Thucydides may not have possessed the precise information to present a detailed narrative from the commander's perspective with the exact details of orders given and of units' movements, the sort of account we associate with traditional milit ...
in partial fuifillrnent of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
... rhetoricians, the one who is preeminent among the Greeks Pericles. son of Xanthippus" (235e). This too seems unproblematic. until one notices that Socrates refers to Pericles in the present tense. which suggests that we are to read the dialogue as if Pericles is presently alive. This point creates f ...
... rhetoricians, the one who is preeminent among the Greeks Pericles. son of Xanthippus" (235e). This too seems unproblematic. until one notices that Socrates refers to Pericles in the present tense. which suggests that we are to read the dialogue as if Pericles is presently alive. This point creates f ...
Πολιτικός Ἔρως: Alcibiades` Love in Thucydides and Plato
... implications for the πόλις at the level of norms and at the level of history are staggering: we find a similar kind of ambiguity between Alcibiades and the δῆμος in Athens. This correspondence leads us to question whether we cannot judge Plato and Thucydides on an equal footing as political commenta ...
... implications for the πόλις at the level of norms and at the level of history are staggering: we find a similar kind of ambiguity between Alcibiades and the δῆμος in Athens. This correspondence leads us to question whether we cannot judge Plato and Thucydides on an equal footing as political commenta ...
POLITICS AND POLICY IN CORINTH 421
... factory for the demand for redistribution Is not heard in Corinth after this time, even during the upheavals of the fourtn century. ...
... factory for the demand for redistribution Is not heard in Corinth after this time, even during the upheavals of the fourtn century. ...
Why Seize the Acropolis?
... could always use more money to pay their mercenaries and, more generally, to support a lavish lifestyle, but even if this story were true for Kylon it would not explain why ...
... could always use more money to pay their mercenaries and, more generally, to support a lavish lifestyle, but even if this story were true for Kylon it would not explain why ...
The Peloponnesian War
... made itself the leading kingdom of the Near East, and its conquests had extended to Asia Minor, including the Greek cities on the Aegean coast. In the 490s those cities had risen against Persia in the Ionian Revolt. They appealed for help to the mainland Greeks, and Sparta declined to help but Athen ...
... made itself the leading kingdom of the Near East, and its conquests had extended to Asia Minor, including the Greek cities on the Aegean coast. In the 490s those cities had risen against Persia in the Ionian Revolt. They appealed for help to the mainland Greeks, and Sparta declined to help but Athen ...
The Early Development of the Polis: Boundaries, Balance, and
... stating that “the polis must always be approached as a psychological and spiritual, not physical bond,” I believe that this procedure will not only dichotomize certain physical aspects of poleis and how those physical aspects, or the establishment of them, affected the citizenry, but will discuss t ...
... stating that “the polis must always be approached as a psychological and spiritual, not physical bond,” I believe that this procedure will not only dichotomize certain physical aspects of poleis and how those physical aspects, or the establishment of them, affected the citizenry, but will discuss t ...
Athenian Political Art from the Fifth and Fourth Centuries : Images of
... publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]. e electronic version of this article offers contextual information intended to make the study of Athenian democracy more accessible to a wide audience. Please visit the site at http:// www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home. ...
... publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]. e electronic version of this article offers contextual information intended to make the study of Athenian democracy more accessible to a wide audience. Please visit the site at http:// www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home. ...
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
... into four tribes,9 that at the head of each was a king' (phylobasileus),IO and that each tribe was subdivided into three ridings (trittyes, 'third parts')11 and twelve naukrariai. 12 There is no evidence that Athens in that age had an assembly of the people: to claim that, we have to extrapolate fro ...
... into four tribes,9 that at the head of each was a king' (phylobasileus),IO and that each tribe was subdivided into three ridings (trittyes, 'third parts')11 and twelve naukrariai. 12 There is no evidence that Athens in that age had an assembly of the people: to claim that, we have to extrapolate fro ...
First Persian invasion of Greece
The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. The invasion, consisting of two distinct campaigns, was ordered by the Persian king Darius I primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria. These cities had supported the cities of Ionia during their revolt against Persian rule, thus incurring the wrath of Darius. Darius also saw the opportunity to extend his empire into Europe, and to secure its western frontier.The first campaign in 492 BC, led by Mardonius, re-subjugated Thrace and forced Macedon to become a client kingdom of Persia, after being allied or a vassal to Persia as early as the late 6th century BC. However, further progress was prevented when Mardonius's fleet was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Mount Athos. The following year, having demonstrated his intentions, Darius sent ambassadors to all parts of Greece, demanding their submission. He received it from almost all of them, except Athens and Sparta, both of whom executed the ambassadors. With Athens still defiant, and Sparta now effectively at war with him, Darius ordered a further military campaign for the following year.The second campaign, in 490 BC, was under the command of Datis and Artaphernes. The expedition headed first to the island Naxos, which it captured and burnt. It then island-hopped between the rest of the Cycladic Islands, annexing each into the Persian empire. Reaching Greece, the expedition landed at Eretria, which it besieged, and after a brief time, captured. Eretria was razed and its citizens enslaved. Finally, the task force headed to Attica, landing at Marathon, en route for Athens. There, it was met by a smaller Athenian army, which nevertheless proceeded to win a remarkable victory at the Battle of Marathon.This defeat prevented the successful conclusion of the campaign, and the task force returned to Asia. Nevertheless, the expedition had fulfilled most of its aims, punishing Naxos and Eretria, and bringing much of the Aegean under Persian rule, as well as the full inclusion of Macedon. The unfinished business from this campaign led Darius to prepare for a much larger invasion of Greece, to firmly subjugate it, and to punish Athens and Sparta. However, internal strife within the empire delayed this expedition, and Darius then died of old age. It was thus left to his son Xerxes I to lead the second Persian invasion of Greece, beginning in 480 BC.