TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orwin,Clifford
TI  - The Humanity of Thucydides
SN  - 9780691219400
U1  - 938/.05 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Human behavior
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeolians
KW  - Alcibiades
KW  - Attica
KW  - Boeotia, Boeotians
KW  - Brasidas
KW  - Cleon
KW  - Cogan, Marc
KW  - Corinth, Corinthians
KW  - Delphic Oracle
KW  - Diodotus
KW  - Dorian Greeks
KW  - Edmunds, Lowell
KW  - Epidamnus
KW  - Farrar, Cynthia
KW  - Forde, Steven
KW  - Gomme, A. W
KW  - Grote, George
KW  - Heath, Malcolm
KW  - Hermocrates
KW  - Herodotus
KW  - Kagan, Donald
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham
KW  - Macleod, Colin
KW  - Melos, Melians
KW  - Nicias
KW  - Nietzsche, Friedrich
KW  - Ostwald, Martin
KW  - Pearson, Lionel
KW  - Peisander
KW  - Pericles
KW  - Poteidaea
KW  - Romilly, Jacqueline de
KW  - Sicilian expedition
KW  - Sthenelaidas
KW  - Thrace, Thracians
KW  - Trojan War
KW  - Walzer, Michael
KW  - Xenophanes
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on the Notes --; A Note on Narrative Style --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 Prologue: The Athenian Empire as Freely Chosen Project: Pericles' Funeral Oration --; CHAPTER 2 The Outbreak of the War and the Problem of Blame --; CHAPTER 3 Justice as Usual --; CHAPTER 4 Piety and Necessity --; CHAPTER 5 The Melian Dialogue and the Fate of Melos --; CHAPTER 6 Melos and Syracuse --; CHAPTER 7 The Athenian Thesis Reconsidered: Diodotus and Hermocrates --; CHAPTER 8 Domestic Politics --; CHAPTER 9 Recapitulation and Conclusion: The Humanity of Thucydides --; APPENDIX 1 Thucydides 1.22.1-3 --; APPENDIX 2 Thucydides' Use of Prophasis at 1.23.5-6 --; APPENDIX 3 Thucydides' Presentation of the Demand for the Repeal of the Megarian Decree --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
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