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translated from the Greek by Will. Smith ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- A.gr.b. 3310

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- The Speeches -- On Justifying a War: Pericles' First War Speech -- On Dying for Your Country: Pericles' Funeral Oration -- On Holding the Course: Pericles' Last Speech -- On Realpolitik: The Mytilenean Debate -- On Ruthlessness: The Melian Dialogue -- On Launching a Foreign Invasion: The Sicilian Debate -- NOTES -- FURTHER READING

If different identities and national characters matter in explaining foreign policy choices and outcomes, as some studies of Thucydides suggest, then it must be important to understand how these identities and characteristics are created and maintained. This article addresses the problem of collective identity formation in Thucydides' narrative from a rhetorical point of view. The analysis focuses on identitydefining practices, i.e. discursive practices which serve to delineate collective subjects. It is demonstrated that the Peloponnesian War is comprehensible not only in conventional political terms as a struggle over territory, trading interests or leadership, but also as a struggle over identity in which the foundations of collective identification provide both an exploitable resource and a bone of contention per se. Superimposed on other levels of conflict, the issue of collective identification emerges as a sometimes unconscious yet always central concern to Thucydides and the leaders of his time.

Includes index: v. 2, pages 405-416. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The Clouds was first produced in the drama festival in Athens—the City Dionysia—in 423 BC, where it placed third. Subsequently the play was revised, but the revisions were never completed. The text which survives is the revised version, which was apparently not performed in Aristophanes' time but which circulated in manuscript form. This revised version does contain some anomalies which have not been fully sorted out (e.g., the treatment of Cleon, who died between the original text and the revisions). At the time of the first production, the Athenians had been at war with the Spartans, off and on, for a number of years.

Map on first lining-paper of v. 1. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last hundred years, Thucydides has been interpreted and invoked in support of many different positions in politics, political theory and international relations. Geoffrey Hawthorn offers a new and highly original reading, one that sees him as neither simply an ancestor nor a colleague but as an unsurpassed guide to a deeper realism about politics. In this account, Thucydides emerges as sensitive to the non-rational and the limits of human agency, sceptical about political speech, resistant to easy generalisations or theoretical reductions, and opposed to any practical, moral or constitutional closure in politics. The book will be of interest to students of politics and classics

Map on first lining-paper of v. 1. ; Microfilm. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Filmed; No. 5 on a reel of 6 titles. ; Master negative: 93-81377-5.