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26 de jun. de 2017 · In explaining why Athens and Sparta, the two leading states of ancient Greece, came into conflict, Thucydides famously asserted that the “real though unavowed cause” of their rivalry was “the growth of Athenian power, which terrified the Spartans and forced them into war.”.
In so doing, it shows how Thucydides's analysis posed a powerful challenge to previous attempts, both tragic and scientific, to prognosticate the fate of imperial democracy, as well as offering an exemplary moment of Thucydides's synthetic approach towards tragic and scientific explanatory perspectives. Type.
3 de nov. de 2023 · Thucydides, however, offers deeper psychological insights than these classic thinkers, and a more ambiguous reading of history than the one afforded by tragedy. This chapter reads the History in a non-tragedy-centric way. It instead focuses on the role of three social processes: civilisation, war and civil war.
- Alexandros Koutsoukis
Thucydides was critical of the excessive and unrestrained nature of Athenian and Hellenic conduct during the war. By taking up specific themes including the dominance of reason by the passions, the eclipse of logos by ergon, and the decline of nomos, he expressed this critique in a tragic form.
Paperback, €34.00. ISBN 978-2-84137-329-1. A surprising gap in the crowded field of Thucydidean scholarship is an up-to-date study of Thucydides’ relationship with pre-Socratic and sophistic philosophy.
26 de abr. de 2023 · In this study, Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides' History and argues that the text has drawn in so many readers into its distinctive world view precisely because of its kinship to the contemporary language and structure of Classical Tragedy.
