The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato John T. Hogan.
Material type: TextSeries: Greek studiesPublisher: Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 9781498596312; 1498596312Subject(s): Thucydides -- Criticism and interpretation | Plato -- Criticism and interpretation | Plato | Thucydides | Greece -- Athens | To 1500 | Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500 | History: Ancient -- Greece | Political Science: History & Theory | DemocracyGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | History. DDC classification: 938/.05 | 320/.01 LOC classification: DF229.T6 | H64 2020JA71 | .H64 2020Online resources: EBSCOhostCover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on the Use of Ancient Greek -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Stasis in Corcyra Modeling Revolution for Thucydides and Plato -- 2 Pericles: Aspiring Statesman in Thucydides, General and Sophist in Plato -- 3 Athenian Speeches in Book 1: Can the Athenian Empire Aim at Justice? -- 4 Democracy, Demagoguery, and Political Decline in Thucydides and Plato: The Debate between Cleon and Diodotus -- 5 The Melian Dialogue and the End of the Political in the Statesman
6 Alcibiades' Desire for Sicily in Thucydides and for Sexual Conquest in Plato -- 7 Harmodius and Aristogeiton and Political Myths -- 8 Euphemus and Alcibiades: The End of the Athenian Logos -- 9 Alcibiades as a Traitor and Grand Version of Meno -- 10 Nicias and the Failure in Sicily -- 11 Revolution in Athens: Why Democracy Failed -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
This book shows how Plato's Statesman and Thucydides' presentation of the moral collapse in Athenian political discourse reveal many points of agreement between Plato and Thucydides.
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