Sophocles and Alcibiades
... for example, the endorsement of aristocratic paternalism and imperial hegemony,5 competing models of elite leadership6 or “a [strong] contemporary application to the problems of the Athenian polis”.7 But both they and their critics go astray in overlooking – or rejecting – the possibility that the t ...
... for example, the endorsement of aristocratic paternalism and imperial hegemony,5 competing models of elite leadership6 or “a [strong] contemporary application to the problems of the Athenian polis”.7 But both they and their critics go astray in overlooking – or rejecting – the possibility that the t ...
The Peloponnesian War
... section, and I am gratefully conscious that hardly a page of my translation has not benefited from improvements to my first draft suggested by Peter. Thucydides admired energy, inventiveness, and intellectual power, and all these qualities are manifest in his own writing. He wrote very difficult Greek, ...
... section, and I am gratefully conscious that hardly a page of my translation has not benefited from improvements to my first draft suggested by Peter. Thucydides admired energy, inventiveness, and intellectual power, and all these qualities are manifest in his own writing. He wrote very difficult Greek, ...
the pdf - Open Collections
... before. The reason i s that many of them were taking upon themselves greater shares i n the governments of t h e i r states, depriving absolute tyrants or oligarchic cliques of t h e i r power and assuming i t themselves. In many cases the whole citizen-body would r u l e , forming constitutions tha ...
... before. The reason i s that many of them were taking upon themselves greater shares i n the governments of t h e i r states, depriving absolute tyrants or oligarchic cliques of t h e i r power and assuming i t themselves. In many cases the whole citizen-body would r u l e , forming constitutions tha ...
Alcibiades ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ: Socratic Philosopher and Tragic Hero?
... Alcibiades as unswerving may not simply be ironic, for immediately after this speech, Thucydides presents Nicias as deciding that he cannot sway the Athenians from their decision by arguing against it, but may be able to do so if he exaggerates the provisions needed (οὐκ ἂν ἔτι ἀποτρέψειε … τἀχ’ ἂν ...
... Alcibiades as unswerving may not simply be ironic, for immediately after this speech, Thucydides presents Nicias as deciding that he cannot sway the Athenians from their decision by arguing against it, but may be able to do so if he exaggerates the provisions needed (οὐκ ἂν ἔτι ἀποτρέψειε … τἀχ’ ἂν ...
Leo Strauss-Man of War?
... Strauss and Schmitt in his short volume Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt: A Hidden Dialogue received approval from such leading American conservative disciples of Strauss as Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., the teacher of such influential policy minds as William Kristol and Elliot Cohen. In her book Leo Strauss ...
... Strauss and Schmitt in his short volume Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt: A Hidden Dialogue received approval from such leading American conservative disciples of Strauss as Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., the teacher of such influential policy minds as William Kristol and Elliot Cohen. In her book Leo Strauss ...
Residential Restrictions on the Athenian Ostracized
... limitation on places of residence is to be connected with the decision to recall citizens who had been ostracized earlier, for a change of such practical significance for the continued viability of this institution would hardly have been made in the atmosphere of crisis preceding the Persian invasio ...
... limitation on places of residence is to be connected with the decision to recall citizens who had been ostracized earlier, for a change of such practical significance for the continued viability of this institution would hardly have been made in the atmosphere of crisis preceding the Persian invasio ...
A short biography of Pericles
... Pericles with complaints, and the comedians of Athens made him the target of savage and funny ridicule. "Trees will grow back; dead men will not," was the response of Pericles to his detractors. Despite the unpopularity of his policy, Pericles managed to keep the Athenians inside their fortification ...
... Pericles with complaints, and the comedians of Athens made him the target of savage and funny ridicule. "Trees will grow back; dead men will not," was the response of Pericles to his detractors. Despite the unpopularity of his policy, Pericles managed to keep the Athenians inside their fortification ...
Alcibiades - Miss Allaker`s Classical Studies
... he was to become early in his childhood. Alcibiades, according to Plutarch, was unable to accept defeat, even at an early age. He once bit a wrestling opponent, and when asked about it, he replied that he bit like a lion, not like a girl. As an adult, he became a general using a trick that not only ...
... he was to become early in his childhood. Alcibiades, according to Plutarch, was unable to accept defeat, even at an early age. He once bit a wrestling opponent, and when asked about it, he replied that he bit like a lion, not like a girl. As an adult, he became a general using a trick that not only ...
Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies
... collective memory of the peoples there and had great significance on the History Herodotus was to write. It is believed that Herodotus made one more stop on his voyages around the Black Sea. Herodotus directly states that he went to Colchis, and at no other time would he have had a better opportuni ...
... collective memory of the peoples there and had great significance on the History Herodotus was to write. It is believed that Herodotus made one more stop on his voyages around the Black Sea. Herodotus directly states that he went to Colchis, and at no other time would he have had a better opportuni ...
Ethnography and Empire: Homer and the Hippocratics in Herodotus
... Herodotus establishes two things that will become important for this logos. First, he demonstrates his critical capacities: no careless purveyor of the fantastic, he provides his audience with rational explanations for the tales that may beguile others, a manoeuvre which establishes at the outset hi ...
... Herodotus establishes two things that will become important for this logos. First, he demonstrates his critical capacities: no careless purveyor of the fantastic, he provides his audience with rational explanations for the tales that may beguile others, a manoeuvre which establishes at the outset hi ...
Plutarch, Charinus, and the Megarian Decree
... with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even on a minor matter such as the Megarian decree (1.140.2-41.1). Alt ...
... with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even on a minor matter such as the Megarian decree (1.140.2-41.1). Alt ...
Πολιτικός Ἔρως: Alcibiades` Love in Thucydides and Plato
... Alcibiades himself. This general, playboy, politician, and multiple Olympic victor plays an evershifting role in the War, casting a long shadow on some of its most dramatic developments, including the Battle of Mantinea, the mutilation of the Herms, the Sicilian Expedition, and the international pol ...
... Alcibiades himself. This general, playboy, politician, and multiple Olympic victor plays an evershifting role in the War, casting a long shadow on some of its most dramatic developments, including the Battle of Mantinea, the mutilation of the Herms, the Sicilian Expedition, and the international pol ...
Unit F393
... Details of Herodotus’ account of the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians should be included, especially in relation to the outcomes of Plataea and Mycale. In addition, the final sections of Herodotus on the poverty of Greece might be considered. Answers should also make use of Plutarch, Aes ...
... Details of Herodotus’ account of the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians should be included, especially in relation to the outcomes of Plataea and Mycale. In addition, the final sections of Herodotus on the poverty of Greece might be considered. Answers should also make use of Plutarch, Aes ...
Illinois classical studies: http://hdl.handle.net/10684
... Cf. Iliad 3. 23-26 and 15. 592 and 630-36. Cf. also Hdt. 4. 191. ...
... Cf. Iliad 3. 23-26 and 15. 592 and 630-36. Cf. also Hdt. 4. 191. ...
Introduction - Princeton University Press
... banished by the Athenian people when he was ostracized. This was a procedure that made it possible temporarily to get rid of any member of the elite considered to be too powerful and so prevent any return to tyranny. That sanction of ostracism lapsed in 485, halfway between the two Persian Wars, in ...
... banished by the Athenian people when he was ostracized. This was a procedure that made it possible temporarily to get rid of any member of the elite considered to be too powerful and so prevent any return to tyranny. That sanction of ostracism lapsed in 485, halfway between the two Persian Wars, in ...
hermocrates the syracusan1 - Manchester eScholar
... some Syracusans favoured its conclusion because they hoped to 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. ...
... some Syracusans favoured its conclusion because they hoped to 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. ...
Ancient Greek History: Supplemental Readings
... (1) Livius.org always presents possibilities (and opinions) that give a broader view of the events than many textbooks do. It also includes a lot of details that are interesting, but don’t get caught up in them if we haven’t touched on them in class. ii) http://www.livius.org/pb-pem/peloponnesian_wa ...
... (1) Livius.org always presents possibilities (and opinions) that give a broader view of the events than many textbooks do. It also includes a lot of details that are interesting, but don’t get caught up in them if we haven’t touched on them in class. ii) http://www.livius.org/pb-pem/peloponnesian_wa ...
PERICLES
... • “It was now in the interest of every Athenian that there should be as few citizens as possible to participate in the new privileges of citizenship” (Bury and Meiggs) ...
... • “It was now in the interest of every Athenian that there should be as few citizens as possible to participate in the new privileges of citizenship” (Bury and Meiggs) ...
Menaldo - North American Business Press
... fear and honor equally contributed to its declaration of war against Athens. Ned Lebow (2001) is critical of the realist interpretation of Thucydides, which interprets him as a proto–social scientist who was primarily interested in discerning causes and outcomes. As a result, they lose sight of impo ...
... fear and honor equally contributed to its declaration of war against Athens. Ned Lebow (2001) is critical of the realist interpretation of Thucydides, which interprets him as a proto–social scientist who was primarily interested in discerning causes and outcomes. As a result, they lose sight of impo ...
Winchester 2 Table of Contents Chapter One: Historical Background
... for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible.3 As K. J. Dover observes, “Thucydides used his imagination only when memory or information was inadequate, never to replace, let alone contradict, what he had reason to think the speaker had act ...
... for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible.3 As K. J. Dover observes, “Thucydides used his imagination only when memory or information was inadequate, never to replace, let alone contradict, what he had reason to think the speaker had act ...
PERICLES` RECKLESS MEGARIAN POLICY WAS
... that came to be called the Delian League, although it rapidly evolved into what can only be described as an Athenian Empire. The Athenian hegemony, based upon sea power, came to rub up against the traditional hegemony of land-based Sparta and its Peloponnesian League, a kind of looser alliance with ...
... that came to be called the Delian League, although it rapidly evolved into what can only be described as an Athenian Empire. The Athenian hegemony, based upon sea power, came to rub up against the traditional hegemony of land-based Sparta and its Peloponnesian League, a kind of looser alliance with ...
AH3 option 2 Conflict
... this expedition: an inscribed marble block from Samos dated to c. 464-54 suggests that Samians were fighting in Samos at this time, and that they took 15 ships from the Phoenicians: see LACTOR 14 43 = Fornara no. 77. There is much discussion on whether there really was a treaty called the Peace of K ...
... this expedition: an inscribed marble block from Samos dated to c. 464-54 suggests that Samians were fighting in Samos at this time, and that they took 15 ships from the Phoenicians: see LACTOR 14 43 = Fornara no. 77. There is much discussion on whether there really was a treaty called the Peace of K ...
AH3 option 2 Conflict
... this expedition: an inscribed marble block from Samos dated to c. 464-54 suggests that Samians were fighting in Samos at this time, and that they took 15 ships from the Phoenicians: see LACTOR 14 43 = Fornara no. 77. There is much discussion on whether there really was a treaty called the Peace of K ...
... this expedition: an inscribed marble block from Samos dated to c. 464-54 suggests that Samians were fighting in Samos at this time, and that they took 15 ships from the Phoenicians: see LACTOR 14 43 = Fornara no. 77. There is much discussion on whether there really was a treaty called the Peace of K ...
ThuCyDIDES ON POlICy, STRATEgy, AND WAR TERMINATION
... plague, Thucydides might say) because of a clash of policies that made it impossible for either Athens or Sparta to accept the result of their most recent conflict as final. Their political objectives were fundamentally incompatible. Athens was determined to expand; Sparta was no less determined to ...
... plague, Thucydides might say) because of a clash of policies that made it impossible for either Athens or Sparta to accept the result of their most recent conflict as final. Their political objectives were fundamentally incompatible. Athens was determined to expand; Sparta was no less determined to ...
Thucydides and Civil War: the Case of Alcibiades
... glory-seeking. Pericles was emphatic. The glory of Athens is not the glory of Greece but the “luster of your name” that comes with empire-- a “tyranny” he eventually calls it, not least by conquering other Greeks. “We have no need of Homer’s praises. . ., everywhere we have established eternal monum ...
... glory-seeking. Pericles was emphatic. The glory of Athens is not the glory of Greece but the “luster of your name” that comes with empire-- a “tyranny” he eventually calls it, not least by conquering other Greeks. “We have no need of Homer’s praises. . ., everywhere we have established eternal monum ...
Thucydides
Thucydides (/θjuːˈsɪdɨdiːz/; Greek: Θουκυδίδης, Thoukudídēs, Ancient Greek: [tʰuːkydídɛːs]; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian, political philosopher and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of ""scientific history"" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.He has also been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the political behavior of individuals and the subsequent outcome of relations between states as ultimately mediated by and constructed upon the emotions of fear and self-interest. His text is still studied at both universities and advanced military colleges worldwide. The Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory while Pericles' Funeral Oration is widely studied in political theory, history, and classical studies.More generally, Thucydides showed an interest in developing an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plague, massacres, as in that of the Melians, and civil war.