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The Opposition By Yuri Garms Greek and Roman Studies 205 Lecture 02 / Tutorial 16 Prof.: Christina V Monday, February 9th, 2004 In a time of civil and social unrest, warring city states fought each other for total supremacy. But not only a war for land and power, this was a war motivated by political systems and contradictory ideologies. This spectrum of history known as the Peloponessian war produced an interesting Athenian man known as Thucydides. Motivated to write about the great conflict taking place around him, Thucydides wrote a series of historical texts describing his time period. Particularly intriguing is Thucydides’ apparent views and attitudes regarding the Athenian political system of democracy within which he grew up. Thucydides’ position is clear and direct, not only is he opposed to democracy but he believes it to be irresponsible, short sighted, selfish and fickle. This perspective becomes evident within the writings of Thucydides, where he explains the dynamic, irresponsible and indecisive nature of the party system as well as the overprotective, power hungry characteristics of the democratic state. Therefore it can be conclusively derived that Thucydides’ presentation and disposition towards democracy within his writings is in fact of a negative nature and of an incomplete favorance. Thucydides describes the ties and relations among the parties of the Athenian democracy as “closer than ties of blood”.
Approximate Word count = 874
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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