Love of Glory and the Common Good: Aspects of the Political Thought of ThucydidesMore clearly than any previous work on the subject, Michael Palmer's Love of Glory and the Common Good defines the relationship between Periclean democracy and the decline in Athenian political life that followed the death of Pericles. The author elaborates upon the views of Thucydides, who saw the subsequent tyrannical rule of Alcibiades and the accompanying disintegration of Athenian political life as a logical consequence of the defects in the speeches and deeds that Pericles used to inspire the Athenian people. With careful attention to details in the order and structure of Thucydides' narrative, Palmer shows this historian as a political thinker of the first rank who deserves the same careful study accorded to Plato and Aristotle. |
Other editions - View all
Love of Glory and the Common Good: Aspects of the Political Thought of ... Michael Palmer Limited preview - 1992 |
Love of Glory and the Common Good: Aspects of the Political Thought of ... Michael Palmer No preview available - 1992 |
Common terms and phrases
Alcibiades allies Ambition to Rule argues Athe Athenian democracy Athenian demos Athenian empire Athenian Imperialism Athenian power Athenian thesis Athens Attica best regime blame Brasidas Camarinians Chance and Intelligence citizens Cleon Cogan compulsion concern Connor Corinthians Cylon debate deeds destruction digression Diodotus Diodotus's divine enemies envy Euphemus fact fear fellow Athenians Funeral Oration gods Gomme greatest Greece Harmodius and Aristogiton hegemony Hermocrates historian History Hobbes honor hope interest judgment justice last speech love of glory Mede Melian Dialogue Melos moderate Mytileneans narrative nians Nicias Nicias's Oxford Peace of Nicias Peloponnese Peloponnesians Pentecontaetia Periclean Pericles Persian Persian War piety Pisistratids plague Potidaea Pouncey praise present punishment question of tyranny readers remarkable Romilly Sicilian expedition Sicily Spartans speech at Sparta Speeches in Thucydides Strauss Structure of Thucydides Syracusans Syracuse Themistocles Thucydidean Thucydides Thucydides and Athenian Thucydides says Thucydides tells tion tyrants understanding University Press virtue