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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: John T. Hogan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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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 Thucyd
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides
Language: en
Pages: 801
Authors: Ryan Balot
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides
The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Demetra Kasimis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy'
Plato's Symposium
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Frisbee Sheffield
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-20 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed
Thucydides and Political Order
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Christian R. Thauer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-08 - Publisher: Springer

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This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a ca