Thucydides

determine if the Athenians’ warnings still hold true – do allies only intervene in the interests of their own security? Or can other factors (e.g. shared identities, common ideologies) overcome an actor’s international inertia? Before applying Thucydides’ questions to modern statecraft, it’s necessary

Pericles shaped his campaigning around pleasing the masses. Thucydides’ political strategy was to get all of his supporters to sit together in the assembly. Unfortunately for him, there were not many to support him against Pericles. Strategically, Pericles gave nearly all of the political power to the people. This was the reason he was known as the ‘first citizen of democratic Athens by the historian Thucydides. Purposefully, he was constantly ‘beautifying’ Athens. As stated by Plutarch

Punishment for Athens The Landmark Thucydides is a history book on the Peloponnesian War written by an Athenian historian and general named Thucydides. Throughout the book, Thucydides recounts the war and tells of the many actions of his mother land Athens. In several of his descriptions Athens could be viewed as arrogant especially towards their accomplishments in war. He also tells of a terrible crime that Athens commits that could be described as genocide. Thucydides also describes several simpleminded

Human Rights. Realism and International Relations by Jack Donnelly provides a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in International Theory. Using the six paradigmatic theories – Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, the Prisoners’ Dilemma, Thucydides, Machiavelli and Hobbes – the book examines realist accounts of human nature and state motivation, international anarchy, balance of power, international institutions and morality in foreign policy. The reason for choosing this book is to assess

Oration” Pericles' Funeral Oration is a famous speech given during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Though the exact words of Pericles famous Funeral Oration made around 430 B.C are unknown, the speech’s purpose and meaning was recorded by Thucydides. Thucydides was a notable Greek historian, who often reported what was said as he would have said it. The speech was delivered by Pericles around the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. He was a prominent political and military leader in

Herodotus and Thucydides were historians who dramatically influenced the way we look at Greek history and warfare. The two historians approach their stories in completely different ways, which ultimately leads to different explanations of the origins of conflict. Herodotus focuses on recalling the origins of the Ionian Revolt, the rise of the Persian Empire, and the Persian Wars with Greece, while Thucydides writes about the Peloponnesian War. M.I. Finely suggests, in the introduction of Thucydides’ book

traditions: The “Clouds” and the “History of Peloponnesian War” Undeniably, the ancient Greek society places a heavy emphasis on values and traditions. The two texts of the “Clouds” by Aristophanes and “History of the Peloponnesian war” by Thucydides, although contextually divergent, are actually conceptually convergent. Both texts are built around the central theme of the collapse of conventional values. While the breakdown of traditional values in the “History of the Peloponnesian war” is

A dynamic character is a major character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by it. In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the emotional pattern and thought process of Louise Mallard after she is informed of her husband’s death are explored. Over the course of the hour in which the story takes place Louise has a realization about the constraints she feels in her life and in her marriage. By delineating Louise as a flat and dynamic character, Chopin is able to convey her

or an ideology. Thucydides and Herodotus both had distinct source types as well as biases, but conform to them in different ways reflective of their different writing styles. First we will examine the sources that Thucydides used and why he uses speeches. Thucydides was the main source of the information as he lived and held command as a general during the Peloponnesian War up until his exile to Peloponnesian territory (Thucydides p. 102). His position as a general makes Thucydides an excellent eye

Herodotus and Thucydides helped define and set the ground-work for what historical writing consists of. Herodotus, being the older of the two, is flatteringly renowned as the father of history, as he provided the world with its first account of a true historical narrative – The Histories. Both men lived roughly from the early portion of the 4th Century b.c up until the latter end of the century, and the purposes of their works agreed in principal, but in principal only. For instance, Thucydides authored