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In the Company of Scholars Lecture Series: "How to Write a War: Thucydides and the Literature of the First World War" 'From Homeric epic the ancient Greek historian Thucydides inherited the construct of a ‘great’ war as simultaneously a theatre for glorious action and the source of tragic loss and devastation. In the context of the centenary of the First World War of 1914-1918, Emily Greenwood will compare Thucydides’ idea of the ‘great’ war with the figure of the ‘great’ war in British prose fiction and memoirs of the First World War. In his account of The War of the Athenians and the Peloponnesians (fought intermittently between 431 and 404 BCE), Thucydides produced a complex intellectual and emotional critique of the idea of a ‘great’ war and in the process established a series of narrative devices and tropes for writing war that recur in so-called ‘disillusioned’ British memoirs and novels about the First World War. In their preoccupation with the truth about the war as lived experience, these novels and memoirs make a passionate, rhetorical argument for the urgency of fiction in interpreting and understanding the past and pose enduring questions both about the narratability of war and the veridicality of fiction. These same questions underlie Thucydides’ history of another ‘great’ war.'
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This Lecture was recorded at The Academy 2014. You can find out about the Academy 2015 here: http://www.instituteofideas.com/event... About the speaker Professor Morley is currently Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He was awarded both his M.A. and PhD from Cambridge before moving to Bristol where he currently teaches. Professor Morley has three main research interests; the economic, social and ecological history of classical antiquity, the reception of antiquity in eighteenth and nineteenth century economic and social thought, and the theoretical and philosophical approaches to historiography. For the past 4 years, Professor Morley has been leading a research project funded by the AHRC, entitled; Thucydides: Reception, Reinterpretation, and Influence. And he is currently working on a book on Karl Marx for the OUP Classics in Theory series, as well as articles on approaches to studying the ancient economy.
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Cornelius Castoriadis (March 11, 1922 – December 26, 1997) was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst and author. Castoriadis has influenced European (especially continental) thought in important ways. His interventions in sociological and political theory have resulted in some of the most well-known writing to emerge from the continent. Hans Joas published a number of articles in American journals in order to highlight the importance of Castoriadis' work to a North American sociological audience, and Johann P. Arnason has been of enduring importance both for his critical engagement with Castoriadis' thought and for his sustained efforts to introduce it to the English speaking public (especially during his editorship of the journal Thesis Eleven). In the last few years, there has been growing interest in Castoriadis’s thought, including the publication of two monographs authored by Arnason's former students: Jeff Klooger's Castoriadis: Psyche, Society, Autonomy (Brill), and Suzi Adams's Castoriadis's Ontology: Being and Creation (Fordham University Press). Castoriadis' work will be remembered for its remarkable continuity and coherence as well as for its extraordinary breadth which was "encyclopaedic" in the original Greek sense, for it offered us a "paideia," or education, that brought full circle our cycle of otherwise compartmentalized knowledge in the arts and sciences. Castoriadis wrote essays on mathematics, physics, biology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, society, economics, politics, philosophy, and art. One of Castoriadis' many important contributions to social theory was the idea that social change involves radical discontinuities that cannot be understood in terms of any determinate causes or presented as a sequence of events. Change emerges through the social imaginary without determinations, but in order to be socially recognized must be instituted as revolution. Any knowledge of society and social change “can exist only by referring to, or by positing, singular entities…which figure and presentify social imaginary significations.” Castoriadis used traditional terms as much as possible, though consistently redefining them. Further, some of his terminology changed throughout the later part of his career, with the terms gaining greater consistency but breaking from their traditional meaning (neologisms). When reading Castoriadis, it is helpful to understand what he means by the terms he uses, since he does not redefine the terms in every piece where he employs them. Castoriadis views the political organization of the ancient Greek city states as an example of an autonomous society. He argues that their direct democracy was not based, as many assume, in the existence of slaves and/or the geography of Greece, which forced the creation of small city states, since many other societies had these preconditions but did not create democratic systems. Same goes for colonisation since the neighbouring Phoenicians, who had a similar expansion in the Mediterranean, were monarchical till their end. During this time of colonisation however, around the time of Homer's Epic poems, we observe for the first time that the Greeks instead of transferring their mother city's social system to the newly established colony, they, for the first time in known history, legislate anew from the ground up. What also made the Greeks special was the fact that, following above, they kept this system as a perpetual autonomy which led to direct democracy. This phenomenon of autonomy is again present in the emergence of the states of northern Italy during the Renaissance, again as a product of small independent merchants. Key concepts in Castoriadis' thought are autonomy and heteronomy, the imaginary, and chaos. Translations of works by Castoriadis include • The Imaginary Institution of Society [IIS] (trans. Kathleen Blamey), MIT Press, Cambridge 1997 [1987]. 432 pp. ISBN 0-262-53155-0 (pb.) • The Castoriadis Reader (ed./trans. David Ames Curtis) Blackwell Publisher, Oxford 1997. 470 pp. ISBN 1-55786-704-6 (pb.) • World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination. [WIF]. (ed./trans. David Ames Curtis) Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 1997. 507 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2763-5
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In this excerpt from The Histories, unit 2 of The Greeks in the Old Western Culture great books series, Wes Callihan talks about the unusual use of the Trireme in this episode from Thucydides to save the people of a city from certain death. Find out more about Old Western Culture great books curriculum here: http://www.romanroadsmedia.com/store/the-greeks.php
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Paradoxically, as seeking became individualized, attention turned to the specific community in which they dwelled for answers. In the forward he quotes Thomas Carlyle (approvingly): "the three great elements of modern civilization [are] gunpowder, printing and the Protestant religion." The Greek Homeric epics introduce mortals to the story and even the Gods have human motivations and reactions. Herodotus wrote the first history but elements of the epic remained. Thucydides and his history of the Peloponnesian War introduced a new field, political science. Others sought answers in the communal past - Virgil, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Descartes. In The Liberal Way Boorstin arrives at the modern world of classical liberalism - Machiavelli (the Italian way), John Locke (the English way of limited government), Voltaire and Rousseau (the French way of liberation), Thomas Jefferson (the American experiment), Hegel (the ideal German) - each sought meaning within the framework of their own society. All sought to define the individual within the framework of society and increasingly, the State. Modern seekers abandoned traditional sources of meaning such as nations or religion and found or invented new sources. In France the Marquis de Concorcet rejected religion and power in individuals. Instead, mass movements were expounded as a new wave. The result was the French Revolution yet he died in jail, victim of his own teachings. Auguste Comte developed Positivism, a system in which only sensory experiences were the true reality. Related to this was historical determinism in which progress occurs by outside forces unrelated to human actions. From these two arose Ideology, a belief that the ideas expressed were true because they could be "proven". Individuals lost not only influence but also meaning. Boorstin strongly opposed ideology... the people who think they have found the final answer...are the menace to our humanity really, because I think there is no final answer. Gergen, David Online Newshour: The Seekers He first warned of the dangers of ideology in 1953 in The Genius of American Politics. In an interview with PBS he says Jefferson's greatness stems from his non-ideological nature and refusal to develop a political theory. PBS Interview Ideology eventually led to the modern totalitarian state. Spengler and Toynbee sought answers in culture which displaced the nation state. Cultures could be studied and analyzed scientifically so were better models for comparison. Others looked for new meaning in violent revolution, particularly the Soviet model. Steinbeck, Hemingway, John Reed, Lincoln Steffens and others praised the new State. Kierkegaard found meaning not in history but in religious Existentialism wherein doubt was as necessary as faith. Seekers of truth in literature wrote in new ways and a stream of consciousness style emerged. Others found solace in diversity - Edward Wilson in biodiversity, Oliver Wendell Holmes in diversity of opinion. Seekers grew disenchanted with scientific history and materialism. They created process philosophy which found meaning in the act of seeking, not in the final goal. Lord Acton, an English politician, tried to reconcile authoritarian Catholicism with liberty which he considered a process rather than a destination. Malraux looked outside Western absolutes for answers in art, literature and revolution. Henri Bergson sought to explain life processes and particularly evolution (a grand process) in philosophical and physiological terms, declaring true meaning is found within the process. Boorstin concludes with Einstein who searched for ultimate truth in the cosmological unity of universal laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seekers_%28book%29
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This is the Complete Pericles' Funeral Oration read in original Ancient Greek. Pericles' Funeral Oration is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the P...
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BOOK 7 Visit the http://www.projethomere.com/travaux/auteurs_classiques/thucydide/thucydide.htm#videos Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War—Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse—Fortification of Decelea—Successes of the Syracusans. Nineteenth Year of the War—Arrival of Demosthenes—Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae—Folly and Obstinancy of Nicias. Nineteenth Year of the War—Battles in the Great Harbour—Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army.
'From Homeric epic the ancient Greek historian Thucydides inherited the construct of a ‘great’ war as simultaneously a theatre for glorious action and the source of tragic loss and devastation. In the context of the centenary of the First World War of 1914-1918, Emily Greenwood will compare Thucydides’ idea of the ‘great’ war with the figure of the ‘great’ war in British prose fiction and memoirs of the First World War. In his account of The War of the Athenians and the Peloponnesians (fought intermittently between 431 and 404 BCE), Thucydides produced a complex intellectual and emotional critique of the idea of a ‘great’ war and in the process established a series of narrative devices and tropes for writing war that recur in so-called ‘disillusioned’ British memoirs and novels about the First World War. In their preoccupation with the truth about the war as lived experience, these novels and memoirs make a passionate, rhetorical argument for the urgency of fiction in interpreting and understanding the past and pose enduring questions both about the narratability of war and the veridicality of fiction. These same questions underlie Thucydides’ history of another ‘great’ war.'
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What is Thucydides? A documentary report all about Thucydides for the blind and visually impaired or for homework/assignment. Thucydides (;, Thoukudídēs, ; c. 460 – c. 395 BC) was an Athenian historian, political philosopher and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Text to Speech powered by tts-api.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Thucydides-bust-cutout_ROM.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Thucydides_pushkin01.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides 322px-Thucydides_pushkin02.jpg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thucydides_pushkin02.jpg Herodot_und_Thukydides.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides 345px-Thucydides_pushkin01.jpg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thucydides_pushkin01.jpg Thucydides_pushkin02.jpg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thucydides_pushkin02.jpg 250px-Thucydides_Manuscript.jpg from http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Thucydides:_The_Peloponnesian_War Thucydides_Manuscript.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War 144px-Thucydides_pushkin01.jpg from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides 150px-Thucydides-bust-cutout_ROM.jpg from http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Thucydides:_The_Peloponnesian_War
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Canberra Times 2015-04-09... and present wars through a new interpretation of Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War."
noodls 2015-04-08ties has to do with avoiding the so-called Thucydides trap, namely the alleged inevitability of ...
Asia Times 2015-04-08The form and reform of the modern world order have not been able to remove the Thucydides Trap:
China Daily 2015-04-07Thucydides wrote: "What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta."
Huffington Post 2015-04-03Two and a half millennia ago, the Greek historian Thucydides wrote that "identity of interest is the ...
South China Morning Post 2015-04-02"Despite the fact that the United States is still the only superpower in the world, the ...
China Daily 2015-03-27Lee Kuan Yew Stephen Morrison, European Pressphoto Agency ... S ... S ... and China inevitable, or can they escape the Thucydides Trap?
The Los Angeles Times 2015-03-25I guess they want to avoid Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War and the larger context of history- Athens loses.
The Examiner 2015-03-243 ... An environment in which all arts flourished – to wit, Thucydides’s histories, Sophocles’s plays, Socrates’s philosophy ... 1.
The Daily Telegraph 2015-03-23... followed by prime minister before retiring to produce the definitive translation of Thucydides.
The Guardian 2015-03-20... Sophocles, Thucydides, Hobbes, Tocqueville, Frederick Douglass, Isaiah Berlin, and Robert Dahl.
noodls 2015-03-17Photograph: Sheila Burnett. Monday 16 March 2015 19.56 ... I read Thucydides and Homer in the original, but I am no toff.
The Guardian 2015-03-16Thucydides (/θ[unsupported input]ˈsɪdɪˌdiz/; Greek: Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs; c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
He has also been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the relations between nations as based on might rather than right. His text is still studied at advanced military colleges worldwide, and the Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory.
More generally, Thucydides showed an interest in developing an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plague, massacres, as in that of the Melians, and civil war.
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Me and Uncle Samuel were lying in the park,
Toes towards the moonlight, noses in the flower beds.
But we know that what we saw, we saw.
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He was millstone grit. He was Sir Robert Walpole.
And we know that what we heard, we heard.
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Or does the silky moonlight warm your heart to me?
Or must I hanker for a hundred years again
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We were drunk as penguins but we saw him clear as day
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And we know that what we heard, we heard.
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Is it the milky moonlight warms my heart to you?
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lady!"
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to our feet.
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it -
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Was it the creamy, dreamy moonlight warmed your heart?
Oh little nymph, we both did what we could,
But it's so strange: you're infinitely changed today.
Well, me and my Uncle Sam, your Worship, well, we both
feel something's not right:
Today she wears a smile, her face is alight, and her
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I feel the fatness on this track, the bass frequencies
take over me, damage ya with my freaky freaky flow
Catch wreck, check ya neck, I come clean in ya speakers bro
or sis, be you mister or miss
If you need flavor and funk in your life Sugar's what you missed
Uhh, it's not good, not Nutrasweet nor a suplement
A shot of the props, leavin suckers stuck in detriment
UHH!
[Interlude]
The West Is.. "Bout to blow the fuck up"
The West Is.. ??
The West Is.. ??
The West Is.. "The place to be"
The West Is.. "down"
"And I'll tell you why in just a moment"
"And now ladies and gentlemen" {*scratched repeatedly*}
[Verse Three]
Here's a sure shot take from the ground techniques
of my speak, blowin from the West
Era ninety-three is how we hit up the sticker
I glance at my ticker, it's time
To blow the text out my throat and get the oohs and ahhs
of a applause and defeats, it gets my stand
It's how I, learned to be an MC
So take this tape, and put it witcha tape
And love it like ya breaks all smothered in the hiss
And plates of paper, to hold it all up
And I can give a fuck about a industry appeal
But watch 'em all steal this style, and blow the fuck up
Usin my shit
[miscellaneous scratches]
[Verse Four]
Right, right, right
Niggaz doin all that screamin, but really don't know shit doe
You see, if rap were a tree
Then my knowledge would bear fruits
And if rap ever falls, then I guess I'd be a parachute
If rap was the news
Then me, I'd be the commentary
And if rap were a fine bitch
Then I'd be Halle Berry!
If rap were a three and two pitch
Then I'd be wild