Thalassocracy thucydides biography

  • 'Thalassocracy, as is well known, becomes a clear-cut idea in.
  • Thucydides, however, ignores all this and makes Agamemnon a thalassocrat, like Athens.
  • Thucydides then says this: “Minos, according to tradition, was the first person to organize a navy.

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    Ep. 012 – Minoan Thalassocracy

    In today's episode, we'll take a look at the evidence from early Minoan history, beginning with pre-history and working up to the Neo-Palatial period. While the items we'll discuss are beautiful and tell us a lot about the artistic focus of Minoan culture, we'll also try to discern the line between fact and fiction when it comes to theories of a Minoan thalassocracy, or, the so-called Minoan 'empire of the sea.'

    To be frank as we get underway today, the Minoan Civilization has been, thus far in our narrative, the biggest surprise to me personally. For some reason, in my mind the Minoans had always occupied a place of pseudo-familiarity, especially in comparison to the Harappan people we’ve looked at earlier: their name is familiar and the myths associated with them and King Minos are among the most recognizable in Greek mythology. I may have been a bit off-base in my admittedly ignorant assumptions about the Minoans, and my ignorance about the

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    Thalassocracy

    1 Thalassocracy CHRISTY CONSTANTAKOPOULOU “Thalassocracy” is the phonetic adaptation of a noun meaning “sea power” in Greek. Ancient Greek historians, and particularly THUCYDIDES, used the concept of “thalassocracy” as an analytical tool in investigating the past. Thucydides (1.4) saw early Greek history as a efterträdelse eller följd of thalassocracies, starting with the mythical figure of MINOS in CRETE. Some effort has been put into seeing Minoan thalassocracy in the archaeological remains of Minoan Crete and of the CYCLADES ISLANDS, but it is now accepted that this fryst vatten a fifth-century historical construction rather than an accurate reflection of Minoan realities. The idea of a succession of thalassocracies fryst vatten also present in the thalassocracy list of EUSEBIUS OF which fryst vatten taken from DIODORUS OF SICILY’s lost seventh book (Diod. Sic. 7.11); and this in turn probably originated from a fifth-century source. As with Minoan thalassocracy, the earliest entries in the list cann

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    Time and Truth in Thucydides1

    In the first chapters of his opus Thucydides attaches great importance to the sensible reconstruction of the past and raises the larger problem of the nature of history (1.1-22)3. The type of evidence on which historical investigation relies does not present itself in the form of verifiable and replicable experiment, but implies on the one hand the “deconstruction” of a false conscience (for example, the false tradition on the tyrannicides in 1.20.1-2; 6.54-59), and on the other a critical examination of the data available. In this respect, Thucydides’ historiography shows a connection with medical epistemology; that is, it gives crucial importance to signs, proof, “traces” in the quest for truth. In order to clarify the ways in which such connection is forged, I will explore a number of methodological questions in some of the treaties that comprise the Corpus hippocraticum4, with special focus on the concept of time. In p

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