The Thucydides Roundtable
Thursday, October 13th, 2016Genesis:
- Announcement, by T. Greer
- Marching Orders, by Mark Safranski
- Panel of Contributors, by Mark Safranski
Book I:
- An introduction, by T. Greer
- Fear, honor, and Ophelia, by Lynn C. Rees
- The Broken Reed, by Jim Lacey
- How Group Dynamics Brought Sparta and Athens to War, by Joe Byerly
- It Would Be A Great War, by Cheryl Rofer
- Knowing Thyself and Knowing the Enemy, by Marc Opper
- Political Rhetoric in Book I: Truth or Action?, by Pauline Kaurin
- Failed Visions of Strategic Restraint, by Mark Safranski
- Reflections in a Beginner’s Mind, by Charles Cameron
- Reflections from a Clausewizian Strategic Theory Perspective, by Joseph Guerra
- Honour or reputation?, by Natalie Sambhi
Book II:
- Beware Greeks Bearing Faulty Assumptions, by Pauline Kaurin
- Tactical Patterns in the Siege of Plataea, by A.E. Clark
- When Bacteria Beats Bayonets, by Joe Byerly
- Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap, by T. Greer
- On Pericles, Strategy and his Regime, Part I, by Mark Safranski
- Treason makes the historian, by Lynn C. Rees
Book III:
- Treatment of the Enemy in War: Cruel to be Kind?, by Pauline Kaurin
- The Most Violent Man at Athens, by Mark Safranski
- The Medium of Heralds, by Cheryl Rofer
- A Layered Text, by Joseph Guerra
- Understanding Stasis, by A. E. Clark
Book IV:
- “What a Man Can Do”, by Pauline Kaurin
- General Demosthenes, by A. E. Clark
- History is Written by the Losers, by T. Greer
- Hoplite Perspective, by Mark Safranski
- Devastation, by A. E. Clark
Book V:
- What Would the Melians Do? Power and Perception in a Time of Deep Connectivity, by Steven Metz
- The Melian Dialogue: Athens’ Finest Hour, by A. E. Clark
- Men of Honor, Men of Interest, by T. Greer
- Debating the Dialogue, by A. E. Clark
Book VI:
- The Diva and the General: Who Wins?, by Pauline Kaurin
- Spot the Alcibiades Points, by T. Greer
- The State with the Golden Arm, by A. E. Clark
Book VII:
- Syracuse Through the Eyes of a Samurai, by A. E. Clark
Book VIII
- What Do You Mean by “We”?, by A. E. Clark
Concluding Analysis
- What have we learned?, by A. E. Clark
Addenda:
- Cleon Revisited, by Mark Safranski
- Fellow Thucydideans, by Mark Safranski
- Hoffman on Reading Thucydides, by Mark Safranski
- Wyne on Revisiting Thucydides’ Explanation, by Mark Safranski
- Thucydides Roundtable, Addendum: Steve Bannon’s interest in the Peloponnesian War by Charles Cameron
- Thucydides Roundtable: Daniel Bassill’s comment by Charles Cameron
Vitals:
A survival kit for all time
- The Landmark Thucydides, the official edition
- History of the Peloponnesian War, the book
- Thucydides, the author
- Richard Crawley, the translator
- Robert B. Strassler, the editor
- Victor Davis Hanson, the introducer
- Peloponnesian War, the event
- History of the Peloponnesian War, the HTML
- History of the Peloponnesian War, the plain text
- History of the Peloponnesian War, in Greek and English with notes, spacial coordinates, dictionaries, and glossaries
Other Sources:
A survival kit for some time
- Herodotus, the predecessor:
- Aristophanes, the comedic relief:
- Xenophon, the successor:
- Anabasis: the scenic route
- Hellenica: the sequel
- Aristotle or friends, the expounders:
- Diodorus, the scribler:
- Bibliotheca historica, Book 12: the exhaustive compilation
- Bibliotheca historica, Book 13: the exhaustive compilation
- Cornelius Nepos, the biographer:
- Alciabides, the scoundrel
- Cimon, the friend of Sparta
- Conon, the admiral
- Pausanias, the fallen hero
- Themistocles, the quisling Churchill
- Thrasybulus, the comeback kid
- Plutarch, the moralist:
- Alcibiades, still a scoundrel
- Cimon, still a friend of Sparta
- Nicias, still a stiff
- Pericles, still a visionary leader
- Themistocles, still a quisling Churchill
