1960
DOI: 10.1163/156852560x00219
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Thucydides' Portrait of Cleon1)

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“…Most scholars nowadays largely concur that Cleon has received an unfair treatment from Aristophanes and Thucydides due to their personal biases and potential animosity towards him, see e.g. Woodhead 1960;Bowersock 1965: 139;Baldwin 1968: 211-14;Westlake 1968: 60-85;Hunter 1973: 31-41;Lewis 1975: 89;Marshall 1984: 19-23;CT I: 346-49, 419-20;Greenwood 2006: 55-56;Wallace 2015: 250. Cf.…”
Section: Draws An Intriguing Parallel Between Agoracritus In Knights Andmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most scholars nowadays largely concur that Cleon has received an unfair treatment from Aristophanes and Thucydides due to their personal biases and potential animosity towards him, see e.g. Woodhead 1960;Bowersock 1965: 139;Baldwin 1968: 211-14;Westlake 1968: 60-85;Hunter 1973: 31-41;Lewis 1975: 89;Marshall 1984: 19-23;CT I: 346-49, 419-20;Greenwood 2006: 55-56;Wallace 2015: 250. Cf.…”
Section: Draws An Intriguing Parallel Between Agoracritus In Knights Andmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…11On Cleon generally, see Lang (1972); Woodhead (1960); Signer (2009: 40–50). For an example of a Roman demagogue, see Plutarch (1975).…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The consistently negative portrayal of Cleon has led to a debate in the scholarly literature between those who claim that Thucydides willfully misrepresents Cleon's merits, such as Woodhead (1960) and Westlake (1968), and those who, like Erbse (1989), are more inclined to accept this portrayal of Cleon as an idle boaster.15 Whatever the historical circumstances may have been, it seems clear that Thucydides' narrator consistently presents Cleon as driven by the desire for saving face.16 He does not at all seem to consider the situation of the Athenian army at Sphacteria; he simply does not want to be blamed for the whole affair. He has a keen grasp of the political implications of the situation (27.3: γνούς, 27.4: γνούς, ὁρῶν), but he fails to consider other interests than his own.…”
Section: The Athenian Assembly: Fear and Pridementioning
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“…Heitsch 1996: 24 has some good remarks about the opportunities that Athens missed by rejecting the peace offer. 3 For a discussion of Cleon's role in the capture of Sphacteria, see Woodhead 1960: 310-315 and Spence 1995: 420-425. 4 Westlake 1968 Thucydides explicitly compares the Spartan defeat at Pylos to that of the Athenians at Sicily (Th.…”
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