The Tragedy Of The Athenian Ideal In Thucydides And Plato

Author : John T. Hogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498596312

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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato by John T. Hogan Pdf

John T. Hogan’s The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens’ defeat in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. Comparing Thucydides’ presentation of political leadership with ideas in Plato’s Statesman as well as Laches, Charmides, Meno, Symposium, Republic, Phaedo, Sophist, and Laws, it concludes that Plato and Thucydides reveal Pericles as lacking the political discipline (sophrosune) to plan a successful war against Sparta. Hogan argues that in his presentation of the collapse in the Corcyraean revolution of moral standards in political discourse, Thucydides shows how revolution destroys the morality implied in basic personal and political language. This reveals a general collapse in underlying prudential measurements needed for sound moral judgment. Furthermore, Hogan argues that the Statesman’s outline of the political leader serves as a paradigm for understanding the weaknesses of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in terms that parallel Thucydides’ direct and implied conclusions, which in Pericles’ case he highlights with dramatic irony. Hogan shows that Pericles failed both to develop a sufficiently robust practice of Athenian democratic rule and to set up a viable system for succession.

Author : Plato,Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781585105236

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Empire and the Ends of Politics by Plato,Thucydides Pdf

This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' funeral oration (from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War).

Author : Darien Shanske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139460736

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Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darien Shanske Pdf

This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read rather than performed. It focuses on the unfolding of contemporary great power politics to the exclusion of almost all other elements of human life, including the divine. The power of Thucydides' text has never been attributed either to the charm of its language or to the entertainment value of its narrative, or to some personal attribute of the author. 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. This kinship is not merely a matter of shared vocabulary or even aesthetic sensibility. Rather, it is grounded in a shared philosophical position, in particular on the polemical metaphysics of Heraclitus.

Author : David Grene
Publisher : Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001842783

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Greek Political Theory by David Grene Pdf

Author : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111320908

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Digressions in Classical Historiography by Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf

Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691218182

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The Tragedy of Political Theory by J. Peter Euben Pdf

In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community. Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.

Author : Thucydides,Plato,Great Books Foundation (U S )
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015155855

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Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides,Plato,Great Books Foundation (U S ) Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Greece
ISBN : PRNC:32101064229857

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The Greek View of Life by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Pdf

Author : G. Lowes Dickinson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368350512

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The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : G. Lowes Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317340256

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The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson Pdf

First published in 1896 (this twenty-third edition in 1957), this book provides a general introduction to Greek literature and thought. Among the subjects dealt with are the Greek view of religion, the state and its relation to the citizen, law, artisans and slaves, manual labour, trade and art.

Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520918746

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Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity by Gregory Crane Pdf

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.

Author : David Grene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCBK:C000970135

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Man in His Pride by David Grene Pdf

Author : Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190647742

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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides by Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same time providing a comprehensive introduction to the author's ideas. The volume is organized into four sections of papers: History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception. It therefore bridges traditionally divided disciplines. The authors engaged to write the forty chapters for this volume include both well-known scholars and less well-known innovators, who bring fresh ideas and new points of view. Articles avoid technical jargon and long footnotes, and are written in an accessible style. Finally, the volume includes a thorough introduction prefacing each paper, as well as several maps and an up-to-date bibliography that will enable further study. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides offers a comprehensive introduction to a thinker and writer whose simultaneous depth and innovativeness have been the focus of intense literary and philosophical study since ancient times.

Author : Cecil Delisle Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Festivals
ISBN : UCSC:32106019707634

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Greek Ideals by Cecil Delisle Burns Pdf

A standard work on Greek ideas & ideals by a scholar of great repute. Basic book for any collection in classical civilization.

Author : S. Sara Monoson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691158587

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Plato's Democratic Entanglements by S. Sara Monoson Pdf

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and public life, as well as a set of governing institutions. She proposes that while Plato charts tensions between the claims of democratic legitimacy and philosophical truth, he also exhibits a striking attraction to four practices central to Athenian democratic politics: intense antityrantism, frank speaking, public funeral oratory, and theater-going. By juxtaposing detailed examination of these aspects of Athenian democracy with analysis of the figurative language, dramatic structure, and arguments of the dialogues, she shows that Plato systematically links democratic ideals and activities to philosophic labor. Monoson finds that Plato's political thought exposes intimate connections between Athenian democratic politics and the practice of philosophy. Situating Plato's political thought in the context of the Athenian democratic imaginary, Monoson develops a new, textured way of thinking of the relationship between Plato's thought and the politics of his city.