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. |
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Contents
Virtue in Greek Ethical Thought | 47 |
The Unity of the Virtues in Book 1 | 77 |
Individuals and States in Book 2 | 115 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Ethics in Thucydides: The Ancient Simplicity G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Mary Frances Williams |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | May 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0761810560, 9780761810568 |
| Length | 344 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / Greece |
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