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Ananke (mythology)
Athenian Democracy
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Boeotia
Brasidas
Calculation
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Criticism
Declaration of war
Deed
Defection
Delian League
Demagogue
Democritus
Demosthenes
Deprecation
Desertion
Digression
Diodotus
Diodotus (son of Eucrates)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dorians
Duress
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Euphemism
Euphemus
Flattery
Foreign policy
Funeral oration (ancient Greece)
Grammatical gender
Great power
Greece
Greeks
Hegemony
Hellenica
Helots
Hermocrates
Hermocrates (dialogue)
Herodotus
Hypocrisy
Imperialism
Impiety
Indulgence
Injunction
Ionians
Irony
Multitude
Mytilenian Debate
Narrative
Nicias
Nicomachean Ethics
Nobility
Oligarchy
Origins (Judge Dredd story)
Peloponnese
Pericles
Pericles' Funeral Oration
Piety
Pity
Plataea
Political philosophy
Politics
Prophasis
Realism (international relations)
Rhetoric
Seriousness
Sub specie aeternitatis
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
Symptom
The Other Hand
Thebes
Themistocles
Thucydides
Product details
- ISBN 9780691017266
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. In the first thorough exploration of the relation between these two traits, Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydides' humanity is not a reflection of the author's temperament but an aspect of his thought, above all of his articulation of the central problem of political life, the tension between right and compulsion. This book provides the most complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice, as well as the most extensive interpretations yet of the speeches in which it comes to light. Thucydides does not merely display the weakness of justice in the world, but joins his characters in exploring the implications of this weakness for our understanding of what justice is.
Orwin pursues this question through Thucydides' work and relates it to the historian's other leading concerns, such as the contrast between the Athenian way and the Spartan way, the role of piety in political life, the interaction of foreign and domestic politics, and the role of statesmanship in a world dominated by frenzies of hope, fear, and indignation. Above all, Orwin demonstrates the richness, complexity, and daring of Thucydides' articulation of these issues.
Clifford Orwin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
