Thucydides and Civic religion

It is now universally accepted that stasis, its causes, patterns, extension and effects, is fundamental to Thucydides’ conception of why his war was the most significant and the most socially destructive the Greeks had ever experienced. The theme is explored in great detail in an excellent recent book, Jonathan Price’s Thucydides and Internal War, which demonstrates how the perception that stasis caused a massive dissolution of social values, practices and language throughout the Greek poleis...

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