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Thucydides Trapped
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Christian Wendt
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, qbad021, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbad021
Published: 06 March 2025
...: an interdisciplinary discussion on the use of historical analogies and their effects’ , Memory Studies 10 , 274 – 85 . Greenwood , E. 2020 : ‘Thucydideses: authorship, anachrony, and anachronism in Greek historiography’ , Classical Receptions Journal 12 , 32 – 45 . Iori , L. , and I...
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Remaking Thucydides
Neville Morley
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, qbad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbad020
Published: 20 February 2025
.../by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract All attempts at realizing Thucydides’ promise of ‘a possession for all time’ involve some degree of remaking: the translation of the text, at the least...
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American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945
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Elizabeth Sawyer
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, qbad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbad018
Published: 20 February 2025
... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract International Relations (IR) theory’s own explanations about its relationship with Thucydides are inconsistent, and the role of Thucydides in IR theory, as that of the discipline’s ‘founding father’, is an American...
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When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War
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Hans Kopp
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, qbad017, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbad017
Published: 23 December 2023
... have been a fitting tagline for all his treatments of Thucydides, yet the precise meaning of ‘events of the last few months’, and so the potential ‘lesson’ Thucydides had to offer, changed from 1939 to 1942, depending on context and audience. 36 Furthermore, it is a small yet unmistakable...
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Classical Realism and the Rise of Sino-American Antagonism: A Review Essay
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Athanasios Platias and Vasilis Trigkas
Political Science Quarterly, Volume 139, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 79–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad078
Published: 19 July 2023
... of strategy at the University of Piraeus. Dr. Vasilis Trigkas is a visiting assistant professor of global affairs at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. Platias and Trigkas have authored numerous works on Thucydides, classical realism, grand strategy, and China–US relations. Platias is also the author...
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Published: 01 January 1994
...This chapter mentions all the books cited in Book III of Thucydides's History. It lists editions of Thucydides that were referenced only for their emendations of the Greek text and standard editions of other classical authors. It also includes details of a limited selection...
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Published: 01 January 1994
...This chapter provides a commentary that assesses the accuracy of the historical account of the Peloponnesian War in Book III of Thucydides's History . It explains how Thucydides adopted a natural calendar of summers and winters and identified points within summer or winter...
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The Early Greek Trophy: The Iconographic Tradition of Time and Space
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François Lissarrague
Published: 30 October 2014
... . The trophy is linked by Thucydides to the turn of the battle. The chapter considers the paradoxical nature of the trophy as a memorial that is traditionally intended to be perishable, and how iconographic depictions of time and space underline the trophy's religious and anthropological dimensions. It also...
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11 ‘Lest the things done by men become exitēla’: Writing up Aegina in a Late Fifth-Century Context
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Elizabeth Irwin
Published: 01 November 2010
... of Herodotus' present day, especially in respect of thalassocracy. Herodotus' treatment of Aegina here is seen within, and as a reaction to, broader fifth-century historiographical interest in thalassocracy, and that of Athens especially; of particular interest is comparison with Thucydides. Attestations...
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Published: 18 October 2018
... Josiah demos popular rule power Aristophanes Hippias Lenaia festival 422 Thucydides tyranny Wasps Aristophanes Antenor Aristogeiton Harmodius Hipparchus Peisistratus κανηφόροι Athens Delphic oracle Herodotus Kerameikos Athens Nesiotes Persian Wars Prytaneion Athens Xerxes Assembly...
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Epilogue: A Lasting Legacy
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Daniel Unruh
Published: 01 June 2023
... to democratic ideals all reflect similar concerns to those which motivated Xenophon, Isokrates, Thucydides, Plato and Herodotus. Alexander III King of Macedon Antipatros Regent of Macedon Chaironea Battle of Hellenistic period Macedon Macedonians monarchy monarchia Persia Persians Philip II King...
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The 5th-Century Challenge to Justice
Merrick Anderson
Published: 21 March 2024
... punishment. The chapter ends with a brief discussion of two non-sophistic texts that attest to the broad impact that this challenge to justice had on Greek society. Sisyphus Fragment Antiphon the Sophist Challenge to Justice Aristophanes Thucydides In the 5th century a very important challenge...
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Peace in Ancient Greece
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Jennifer T. Roberts
Published: 20 October 2022
... in war, and Spartan social organization was geared entirely to war. At the same time, however, the quarreling among Athens, Sparta, and other city-states that reached its apex in the ruinous Peloponnesian War so amply documented by Thucydides made clear to the Greeks the need for peace within the Greek...
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Thucydides and Plataian Perjury* *
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Simon Hornblower
Published: 23 January 2008
...In her study on Plataean perjury, Stephanie West raises important questions about Thucydides's treatment of religion. Invoking several contemporary tragedies, she argues that perjury was believed to be a very serious business in ancient Greece, in part due to the perception that the Plataians were...
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The Greek Notions of Sea Power
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Vilius Bartninkas
Published: 01 February 2023
... in Thucydides. Secondly the Old Oligarch’s view on the internal logic of the Athenian maritime strategy is discussed. Despite the Athenian bias against the aristocratic social norms, the Old Oligarch regards their sea power as an efficient and intelligent model to build an empire. For both Thucydides...
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Stories at the Limits
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Norma Thompson
Published: 11 July 2001
... produces tensions which accommodate masculine and feminine forces alike. The chapter explores Homer's Odyssey at the origins of the polis, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War at its breakdown, and Aristotle's Politics at its “resolution”. literary style authors...
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Imperial Ambition in Free Politics: The Problem of Thucydides' Alcibiades
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Robert Faulkner
Published: 28 January 2008
...This chapter explores the lessons and implications that can be derived about grand ambition from Thucydides' Alcibiades. It first gives the context of Alcibiades, from his work as a strategist in the culminating war between Athens and Sparta, to his turning traitor to his homeland, democratic...
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Life and Not-Life in Thucydides’ Funeral Oration
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George Anastaplo
Published: 09 June 2009
...This chapter examines life and not-life in Thucydides' funeral oration. It notes that it seems customary, for those who delivered funeral orations in the orator's city, to “praise the one who made this [kind of] speech a part of [the] law, saying that it is noble that a speech be delivered over...
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The Vicissitude of Participation: On Ancient Sovereignty
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
Published: 01 August 2013
... on a notion of participation that is opposed to the justification of the means by the ends of power. Solon Strauss Leo Thucydides Foucault Michel Hobbes Thomas Pericles Detienne Marcel Hesiod Theogony Loraux Nicole Augustine Sophocles Benjamin Walter Butler Judith Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich...
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Thucydidean Themes: Democracy in International Relations
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Christopher Hobson
Published: 01 November 2015
... in relation to principles of sovereignty and legitimacy in international society. A conceptual history methodology is proposed, which is outlined by drawing on the work of Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck. The final part of the chapter uses Thucydides to draw out some key themes of the book. Clark Ian...
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