An anonymous reviewer did a great deal to help me sharpen the arguments for classicists and ancient historians. More recently, the reviewers for the University of California Press made a tremendous contribution, providing thoughtful criticisms that allowed me to improve this work in many ways. Martin Mueller and Gregory Nagy both suffered through an early version of the manuscript, and their reactions were enormously helpful to its revision and development. Lisa Cerrato, Maria Daniels, Carolyn Dewald, Lowell Edmunds, Jennifer Goodall, Albert Henrichs, Donald Lateiner, Thomas Martin, Robin Orttung, David Smith, Neel Smith, Daniel Tompkins, and Krista Woodbridge all read sections of this work as it evolved over the years. It took a long time to write this book, and I have accumulated many debts, great and small, along the way. I was not sent to Athens by the Romans to get a liberal education but to crush those who had rebelled.” Acknowledgments To them Sulla responded, “Away with you, you lucky, lucky people, and take these speeches with you. These men did not pay attention to anything that could bring safety, but made high-flying speeches about Theseus and Eumolpus and the Persian Wars. Īfter a long time, at last though grudgingly, Aristion sent out two or three of his drinking companions to treat for peace. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998 1998. I was not sent to Athens by the Romans to get a liberal education but to crush those who had rebelled.”

The ancient simplicity of which nobility so largely consisted was laughed down and disappeared and society became divided into camps in which no one trusted the next person.Īfter a long time, at last though grudgingly, Aristion sent out two or three of his drinking companions to treat for peace.

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