Ethics in Thucydides

Download or read book Ethics in Thucydides written by Mary Frances Williams and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Thucydides uses the historian's account of the resolution at Corcyra as the basis for determining a moral or ethical perspective in Thucydides'History. Various scenes, speeches, and narrative descriptions are analyzed in relation to ethical vocabulary, their conformity to an ethical perspective, and the way in which they promote an ethical outcome. Ethics in Thucydides is ground-breaking because up to this point, scholars have not persuasively argued that ethics played a role in History. Williams' work is an extensive analysis which also considers Thucydides in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries.