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
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501131 |