Thucydides’ attention to natural phenomena, such as the plague, volcanoes, earthquakes, eclipses and floods, is well known. These are uncontrollable events that typically cause enormous environmental, political and military disturbance, further heightening the unpredictability and destructiveness of a war that, from the outset, is characterised as a great movement (kinesis megiste). But it is not only catastrophic natural phenomena that pique the Athenian historian’s interest. As we aim to demonstrate in this study, nature and natural phenomena impose themselves as active forces that are superior to man, interfering in the Peloponnesian War with significant political consequences. On the other hand, the bellicose actions of man impose themselves upon nature with grave environmental costs.
University of Coimbra, Portugal - ORCID: 0000-0001-8153-2014
Titolo del capitolo
Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbance
Autori
Martinho Soares
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4.05
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai)
Sottotitolo del libro
Athenian Democracy in the Making
Curatori
Breno Battistin Sebastiani, Delfim Ferreira Leão
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
140
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-611-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-612-4
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-613-1
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-614-8
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919