The Complexity of Human Nature: Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" and the Figure of Alcibiades

• In Event: Theorizing Political Emotion

Brief Overview

This paper examines human nature in Thucydides' political thought, and contrasts it with the work of Plato, Plutarch, and others, whose portrayals of Alcibiades reveal moral and philosophical dimensions of human nature essential to political life.

Author

• Veronica Sigcho Espinoza, Northwest Florida State College