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Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism (Paperback)
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Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism (Paperback)
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In this book, Edith Foster compares Thucydides narrative
explanations and descriptions of the Peloponnesian War in books one
and two of the History with the arguments about warfare and war
materials offered by the Athenian statesman Pericles in those same
books. In Thucydides narrative presentations, she argues, the
aggressive deployment of armed force is frequently unproductive or
counter-productive, and even the threat to use armed force against
others causes consequences that can be impossible for the aggressor
to predict or contain. By contrast, Pericles speeches demonstrate
that he shared with many others figures in the History a mistaken
confidence in the power, glory, and reliability of warfare and the
instruments of force. Foster argues that Pericles does not speak
for Thucydides, and that Thucydides should not be associated with
Pericles intransigent imperialism. On the contrary, Thucydides
composed Pericles speeches to expose his character and views to the
reader, and he both introduced and surrounded them with narrative
illustrations that contrast Pericles claims."
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