Nature & Convention in Thucydides' History

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The intellectual and social upheaval of the Hellenic world during the fifth century B.C. created problems which remain relevant to crisis situations in the modern world. The study of Thucydides, the historian of the period, has therefore never ceased to be of interest to students of politics. The vexing questions raised by his work have remained unsettled, and interpretations vary widely. In the present article Arlene Saxonhouse offers a stimulating approach to Thucydides' understanding of Greek fifth-century politics. Her argument that the internal and external affairs of the city are connected and can be made intelligible in terms of the sophistic distinction between universal nature and convention is an interesting attempt to resolve the "Thucydidean problem."

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