This book shows how Plato's Statesman and Thucydides' presentation of the moral collapse in Athenian political discourse reveal many points of agreement between Plato and Thucydides.

• Cover
• The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal inThucydides and Plato
• Series page
• The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal inThucydides and Plato
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• A Note on the Use of Ancient Greek
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Stasis in Corcyra Modeling Revolution for Thucydides and Plato
  • Notes
• Chapter 2
• Pericles
  • Notes
• Chapter 3
• Athenian Speeches in Book 1
  • Notes
• Chapter 4
• Democracy, Demagoguery, and Political Decline in Thucydides and Plato
  • Notes
• Chapter 5
• The Melian Dialogue and the End of the Political in the Statesman
  • 2. The Melian Dialogue: When Words Fail
  • Notes
• Chapter 6
• Alcibiades’ Desire for Sicily in Thucydides and for Sexual Conquest in Plato
  • Part 1. Alcibiades and the Peace of Nicias
  • Part 2. The Sicilian Expedition and Political Eros
  • Part 3: Nicias and the Failure of Athenian Education in Laches, Charmides, and Meno
  • Part 4. Alcibiades’ Paranomia in Thucydides and in the Symposium
  • Part 5. Alcibiades’ Democratic Desire in Plato
  • Part 6. Alcibiades’ First Speech Unleashes Desire for More, Pleonexia
  • Part 7. Alcibiades, Imperial Ambition, and Platonic Education
  • Part 8. Stasis
  • Notes
• Chapter 7
• Harmodius and Aristogeiton and Political Myths
  • Notes
• Chapter 8
• Euphemus and Alcibiades
  • Notes
• Chapter 9
• Alcibiades as a Traitor and Grand Version of Meno
  • Notes
• Chapter 10
• Nicias and the Failure in Sicily
  • Notes
• Chapter 11
• Revolution in Athens
  • Part 1. Book 8 as an Obituary on the Failed Athenian Constitution
  • Part 2. Eros and the Best Form of Government
  • Notes
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author