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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato (Paperback)
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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato (Paperback)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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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 Thucydides' Peloponnesian War. Comparing
Thucydides' presentation of political leadership with ideas in
Plato's Statesman as well as Laches, Charmides, Meno, Symposium,
Republic, Phaedo, Sophist, and Laws, it concludes that Plato and
Thucydides reveal Pericles as lacking the political discipline
(sophrosune) to plan a successful war against Sparta. Hogan argues
that in his presentation of the collapse in the Corcyraean
revolution of moral standards in political discourse, Thucydides
shows how revolution destroys the morality implied in basic
personal and political language. This reveals a general collapse in
underlying prudential measurements needed for sound moral judgment.
Furthermore, Hogan argues that the Statesman's outline of the
political leader serves as a paradigm for understanding the
weaknesses of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in terms that
parallel Thucydides' direct and implied conclusions, which in
Pericles' case he highlights with dramatic irony. Hogan shows that
Pericles failed both to develop a sufficiently robust practice of
Athenian democratic rule and to set up a viable system for
succession.
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