This writer's moderation and early realism is presented as a complement to Plato and Aristotle in Leo Strauss's The City and Man.
This writer's moderation and early realism is presented as a complement to Plato and Aristotle in Leo Strauss's The City and Man. This author credits one leader as saying "we are lovers of beauty without extravagance" in a passage in which that leader presents his city as the school of his entire country. This author explained that the commonly believed story of the tyrannicides was untrue in a book that presents Brasidas as a rhetorically exceptional example of his city's men. In that book, this author relates the Melian dialogue to explain that "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must." That major work by this man also includes the funeral oration of Pericles . For 10 points, name this author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.
This writer's moderation and early realism is presented as a complement to Plato and Aristotle in Leo Strauss's The City and Man.
Thucydides