The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato
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 re…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-9631-2
- EAN: 9781498596312
- Produktnummer: 34292395
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 374 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'316 KB
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