Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism

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 offered by the Athenian statesman Pericles in those same books. In Thucydides'' narrative presentations, she argues, the aggressive deployment of armed force is frequently unproductive or counterproductive, and ev...