Thucydides and the ancient simplicity
the limits of political realism
by Gregory Crane
Famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries.
Gregory Crane shows how many of the assumptions that Thucydides attributed to his actors - and that seem commonplace to us today - boldly critique the operative assumptions of the archaic Greek elites. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal not only to classicists but to political scientists and anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.
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Greece Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., Historiography, History, Human behavior, Objectivity, Political aspects, Political aspects of Realism, Realism, Thucydides, Contributions in concept of truth, Et le concept de vérité, Contribution au concept de vérité, Comportement humain, Objectivité, Réalisme politique, Ancient, Truth, Historiae (Thucydides), Ethiek, Politieke filosofie, Réalisme, Aspect politique, Greece, Regions & Countries - Europe, History & Archaeology, History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), Concept of truthPeople
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Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism
1998, University of California Press
in English
0520207890 9780520207899
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-342) and index.
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