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In the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than leave undefended the democratic principles that Athens embodies: this defines The Soldier's Choice. The great war between Sparta and Athens dominated the Greek world for twenty-seven years (431-404 BCE) and shaped much of the culture it bequeathed to posterity.
The Sparta of that era did not produce writers, but Athens did: Thucydides, an unsuccessful general in the war, became its first historian; Aristophanes, Greece's greatest comic poet, devoted the first quarter century of his career to plays about the war; the foundational figure of Western philosophy, Plato, grew up in its shadow and populated his works with men of the war generation.
Because their writings belong to different genres, these three seminal figures have rarely been treated together, an oversight The Soldier's Choice decisively corrects. As prominent members of a small intellectual community, each of the three wrote in profound engagement with the currents represented by the others. The contributors to this volume, experts in the relevant genres, reveal and explore these long-neglected interactions.
Contributors: Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, Terence Irwin, Richard Kraut, Mary Margaret McCabe, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Hunter R. Rawlings III, Ralph M. Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, Victoria Wohl, Nancy Worman, Harvey Yunis
Contents
1. Trial by Jury in Classical Athens: A Travesty of Justice?
2. Soldiering Styles: Thucydides on the March
3. Hellanicus's Influences on Thucydides's Composition
4. Demos, the Public Subject, and the Politics of Particularity in Fifth-Century Athens
5. Theorizing Satire in Pseudo- Xenophon's Constitution of the Athenians
6. Comic Community
7. The Philosopher's Choice of Soldier? Brasidas and the Republic
8. Character, Constitutions, and Epideictic Rhetoric in Thucydides, Plato, and Beyond
9. Thucydides versus Plato?
10. The Ethical Function of Theophrastus's Characters
11. The Sophist's Choice(s): Plato and Comedy in the Perspective of Lucian of Samosata
