The Comedy of Democracy
With guest Edith Hall The theater was invented in ancient Athens, and its invention may have been connected to the emergence of democracy. In fact, public entertainment contributed in important ways to the functioning…
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Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism
By Edith Foster Abstract: Edith Foster compares Thucydides’ narrative explanations and descriptions of the Peloponnesian War in Books One and Two of the History with the arguments about warfare and war materials…