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The Melian Dialogue: Thucydides and the Tragedy of Empire
In the sixteenth year of the Peloponnesian War, Athens sent a fleet to the neutral island of Melos. What happened next became the most chilling passage in Thucydides' history: the Melian Dialogue. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the actual events of 416 BCE — the siege, the massacre, and the enslavement — and the philosophical debate Thucydides constructed between Athenian envoys and Melian leaders. Was the dialogue a real transcript or a literary invention? Why did Thucydides break his narrative style to write it? And what does it tell us about Athenian democracy at its imperial…
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