OF CIVIL WAR
Some reflections by Thucydides
Read by Harman Grisewood from the translation by Duncan Wilson
In the third book of his history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides comments on rhe nature of the civil disturbances that broke out in many of the cities of Greece during the course of the war. The passage is a classic analysis of how the violence of party strife can shatter the normal standards of human behaviour.
(.) A translation of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue June 27