Jakub Filonik

‘And yet we that live remissly, undertake as great dangers as they’: Thucydides 2.39–40 and the reappropriation of anti-Athenian slurs

This paper argues that Thuc. 2.39–40 offers an ironic response to contemporary criticism of Athens by positively reframing the key terms associated with anti-Athenian slurs. It traces the use of aneimenōs , rhaithumia and related concepts in Thucydides and other Classical sources, showing how these terms were a...