Heath, M. (1990) Justice in Thucydides’ Athenian speeches. Historia, 39. pp. 385-400. ISSN 0018-2311
Abstract
Speakers in Thucydides sometimes dismiss considerations of justice as irrelevant to decision-making in questions of international relations. It is argued that this line of argument is a distinctive characteristic of Thucydides’ Athenian speakers; and evidence from Athenian political oratory in the fourth and (so far as it is recoverable) late fifth centuries suggest that it is unlikely to have been characteristic in reality of Athenian speakers in the late fifth century. This conclusion poses a problem concerning Thucydides’ practice in his speeches to which there is no evident solution.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 1990 Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. Published online under a non-exclusive licence granted by the author. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Humanities (Leeds) > Classics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2008 17:38 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2017 23:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Franz Steiner Verlag |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:3530 |