The Thucydides Tapes

Thucydides and Democratic Peace

Thucydides is an important author for any discussion of the possibilities for an ancient Greek democratic peace. Though democratic peace did not, in fact, seem to function in classical Greece, a number of passages in Thucydides show that an affinity did exist among democratic factions and city-states in the context of hostile competition between democratic and oligarchic regimes. Thucydides rem...

Thucydides and the invention of political science

Thucydides self-consciously invented a new form of inquiry, which can reasonably be called “social and political science.” His intellectual goal was a new understanding of power and its relationship to human agency and the deep structures of human society. His understanding of agency and structure is in some ways reminiscent of the reflexivity theory developed by Anthony

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

The World of Thucydides: From Texts to Artefacts and Back

The ongoing work presented in this paper is related to the Hellespont project, an NEH-DFG founded project aimed at joining together the digital collections of Perseus and Arachne. We shall discuss the design of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) that combines archaeological data from Arachne and textual data drawn from Perseus with bibliographic information contained in JSTOR. We take as test...

Thucydides [from Encyclopedia of Social Measurement]