Chapter Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbance
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-956052025-08-13T13:42:15Z Chapter Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbance Soares, Martinho Thucydides environment war nature ecocriticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies 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. 2022-12-23T04:05:33Z 2022-12-23T04:05:33Z 2022-12-22T16:05:42Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20221222_9788855186124_26 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60364 9788855186124 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95605 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60364/1/10_36253_978-88-5518-612-4_05.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60364/1/10_36253_978-88-5518-612-4_05.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4.05 10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4.05 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855186124 29 Florence open access |
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| title | Chapter Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbance |
| title_full | Chapter Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbance |
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