Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
• | Notes |
1. Sherman at Melos |
• | Notes |
2. Truest Causes and Thucydidean Realisms |
• | The Realisms of Thucydides |
• | Thucydides and Political Realism |
• | Notes |
3. Representations of Power before and after Thucydides |
• | Inscribing the Limits of Authority: The Hegemony of Herodotus’s Spartans |
• | Xenophon’s Self-Fashioning Spartans |
• | Notes |
4. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyraean Affair |
• | The Anger of Corinth |
The Speeches of the Corcyraeans and Corinthians |
• | Reciprocity and Status |
• | Discrediting the Corcyraeans |
• | Establishing Credibility |
• | Notes |
5. Archaeology I |
• | Views on Human Development |
• | The Original Humanity and the Heroic Past |
• | The Original Humanity and the Forces of Production |
• | The Polis as the Basic Social Unit |
• | The Constituent Ties of Society: Aidôs and Dikê |
• | Notes |
6. Archaeology II |
• | Wealth in the Archaic Period: Symbolic Rather Than Financial Capital |
• | Thucydides and “Symbolic Capital” |
• | Thucydides and Capital |
• | Notes |
7. The Rule of the Strong and the Limits of Friendship |
• | Mytilene |
• | Spartan Traditionalism |
• | Notes |
8. Archidamos and Sthenelaidas |
• | Archidamos |
• | Sthenelaidas |
• | Archidamos’s Vision and Spartan Practice |
• | Notes |
9. The Melian Dialogue |
• | Herodotus’s Athenians and the Politics of Heroism |
• | Thucydides and the Grandchildren of Salamis |
• | Notes |
10. Athenian Theses |
• | The Athenians at Sparta: Old Victories, New Lessons |
• | “More Just” Rather Than “Just”: Justice as a Zero-Sum Game |
• | Problems in the Data: Euphemos at Kamarina and the Melian Dialogue |
• | Notes |
11. Conclusion |
• | Essentialism, History, and Ideology in Thucydides |
• | The City and Man |
• | The Funeral Oration And The Price of Objectivity |
• | Notes |
Bibliography |