Blinded Eye Crane Gregory
Blinded Eye Crane Gregory Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual…
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Blinded Eye Crane Gregory
Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual authority, Gregory Crane argues that Thucydides was successful for two reasons. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Hereodotus's earlier Histories failed?
How much money was spent? First, he refined the language of administration: Who was in charge? How many people were killed?
Second, he drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric developing in the fifth century, one in which the state and the public, rather than the family and the individual, stand at the center of the world. Ironically, it was through deeply personal alliances that aristocratic Greeks had defined themselves and exerted power. Thucydides's discursive practice was therefore fundamentally incompatible with his