Thucydides and the ancient simplicity : the limits of political realism /
Famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of powe...
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
©1998.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501131 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Sherman at Melos
- 2. Truest Causes and Thucydidean Realisms
- 3. Representations of Power before and after Thucydides
- 4. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyraean Affair
- 5. Archaeology I
- 6. Archaeology II
- 7. The Rule of the Strong and the Limits of Friendship
- 8. Archidamos and Sthenelaidas
- 9. The Melian Dialogue
- 10. Athenian Theses.