Ethics in Thucydides: The Ancient SimplicityEthics in Thucydides uses the historian's account of the resolution at Corcyra as the basis for determining a moral or ethical perspective in Thucydides'History. Various scenes, speeches, and narrative descriptions are analyzed in relation to ethical vocabulary, their conformity to an ethical perspective, and the way in which they promote an ethical outcome. Ethics in Thucydides is ground-breaking because up to this point, scholars have not persuasively argued that ethics played a role in History. Williams' work is an extensive analysis which also considers Thucydides in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries. |
Contents
Thucydides Definition of Ethics The Revolution at Corcyra | 17 |
Virtue in Greek Ethical Thought | 47 |
Unity of the Virtues in Book 1 | 77 |
Individuals and States in Book 2 | 115 |
Allies and Alliances in Book 3 | 147 |
The Interrelation Between Speech and Narrative How Argument Leads to Action in Book 4 | 171 |
The Melian Dialogue 5845116 | 195 |
The Sicilian Expedition | 207 |
Conduct of the Sicilian Expedition Narrative Passages in Books 6 7 | 251 |
Book Eight | 273 |
Thucydides Himself | 295 |
Conclusion | 303 |
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The Character of Nicias and Alcibiades | 227 |
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