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The seminar will turn on the work of Thucydides, the famous author of The History of the Peloponnesian War. He is a historian of course, but also a disciple of some important sophists (probably Protagoras and Antiphon). His work shows a important philosophical background. Parallels will be done with texts of Plato and Aristotles (Nichomachean Ethics, Poltic, Poetic, Republic, Menexenus). The course intends to show how difficult it is to grasp Plato's and Aristotle's political doctrines without the background of the Peloponnesian War.
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Jacqueline de Romilly, Thucydide et l'impéralisme athénien, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1961.
Jacqueline de Romilly, La construction de la vérité chez Thucydide, Paris, Juliard, 1990
Jacqueline de Romilly, L'invention de l'histoire politique chez Thucydide, Paris, ENS, 2005
Barbara Cassin, L'effet sophistique, Paris, Gallimard, 1995.
David Greene, Greek political Theory : the image of man in Thucydides and Plato, UPChicago, 1965
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