Lee’s army and took from this experience a wound that troubled him for the rest of his life. As a young professor at the University of Virginia, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, the first great American classicist, spent his summer vacations campaigning with Robert E. Warfare, especially its unpredictable course and unexpected consequences, has often spurred interest in Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. Gregory Crane, Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts April 1996 Introduction I dedicate this book to them-a small gesture in return for what they have given me. Although I have freely modified these to clarify the points that I needed to make, all English translations of Greek texts in this book, unless otherwise indicated, are based on those in Perseus 2.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).įinally, I wish to thank my wife, Mary Thomas Crane, and my children, Thomas and Parker, who have borne with me in my labors on this book and in so much else. At the same time, my collaborators in the Perseus Project have provided many kinds of support for my research on Thucydides.Īccess to the “prepublication” version of the Perseus database has allowed me to make convenient use of many existing translations. My colleagues both in classics and in other fields have made it easy for me to ask questions and pursue topics that go beyond my traditional expertise. I have also been privileged to work in an intellectually stimulating and warmly collegial environment at Tufts University.
Finally, Thomas Habinek, of the University of Southern California, and Mary Lamprech, classics editor for the University of California Press, deserve a great deal of credit for bearing with this book as it evolved over the past several years. In particular, Peter prompted me to begin grappling with the difficult but rewarding work of Hannah Arendt. Peter’s suggestions caused me to rethink the entire manuscript and to frame it as a study not only of Thucydides, but of Thucydides’ contribution to the development of political realism. Insofar as I have succeeded in doing so, I owe an enormous debt to Peter Euben, whose own work has made the task of straddling disciplines look deceptively easy. Writing a book that meets the needs of readers beyond my own field has proven particularly challenging. An anonymous reviewer did a great deal to help me sharpen the arguments for classicists and ancient historians. More recently, the reviewers for the University of California Press made a tremendous contribution, providing thoughtful criticisms that allowed me to improve this work in many ways. Martin Mueller and Gregory Nagy both suffered through an early version of the manuscript, and their reactions were enormously helpful to its revision and development. Lisa Cerrato, Maria Daniels, Carolyn Dewald, Lowell Edmunds, Jennifer Goodall, Albert Henrichs, Donald Lateiner, Thomas Martin, Robin Orttung, David Smith, Neel Smith, Daniel Tompkins, and Krista Woodbridge all read sections of this work as it evolved over the years. It took a long time to write this book, and I have accumulated many debts, great and small, along the way. I was not sent to Athens by the Romans to get a liberal education but to crush those who had rebelled.” Acknowledgments To them Sulla responded, “Away with you, you lucky, lucky people, and take these speeches with you. These men did not pay attention to anything that could bring safety, but made high-flying speeches about Theseus and Eumolpus and the Persian Wars.
Īfter a long time, at last though grudgingly, Aristion sent out two or three of his drinking companions to treat for peace. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998 1998. I was not sent to Athens by the Romans to get a liberal education but to crush those who had rebelled.”
The ancient simplicity of which nobility so largely consisted was laughed down and disappeared and society became divided into camps in which no one trusted the next person.Īfter a long time, at last though grudgingly, Aristion sent out two or three of his drinking companions to treat for peace.
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