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Thucydides and the War Strategy of Perikles

Thucydides and the War Strategy of Perikles THUCYDIDES AND THE WAR STRATEGY OF PERIKLES BY DONALD W. KNIGHT Thucydides is not only the first historian to record the war strategy of Perikles, he is also the first historian to comment on that strategy, and there seems to have been a general tendency to accept his evaluation without a detailed independent re-exami- nation of that strategy. Two passages from Thucydides and two passages from more recent historians would seem to support this contention: "He [Perikles] also gave the citizens some advice on their present affairs in the same strain as before. They were to prepare for the war, and to carry in their property from the country. They were not to go out for battle, but to come into the city and guard it, and get ready their fleet, in which their real strength lay. They were to keep a tight rein on their allies-the strength of Athens being derived from the money brought in by their payments, and success in war depending principally upon conduct and capital" 1). "When the war broke out, here also he [Perikles] seems to have rightly gauged the power of his country. He outlived its commence- ment two years and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Thucydides and the War Strategy of Perikles

Knight, Donald W.
Mnemosyne , Volume 23 (2): 150 – Jan 1, 1970
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© 1970 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
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10.1163/156852570X00713
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THUCYDIDES AND THE WAR STRATEGY OF PERIKLES BY DONALD W. KNIGHT Thucydides is not only the first historian to record the war strategy of Perikles, he is also the first historian to comment on that strategy, and there seems to have been a general tendency to accept his evaluation without a detailed independent re-exami- nation of that strategy. Two passages from Thucydides and two passages from more recent historians would seem to support this contention: "He [Perikles] also gave the citizens some advice on their present affairs in the same strain as before. They were to prepare for the war, and to carry in their property from the country. They were not to go out for battle, but to come into the city and guard it, and get ready their fleet, in which their real strength lay. They were to keep a tight rein on their allies-the strength of Athens being derived from the money brought in by their payments, and success in war depending principally upon conduct and capital" 1). "When the war broke out, here also he [Perikles] seems to have rightly gauged the power of his country. He outlived its commence- ment two years and

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Published: Jan 1, 1970

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