Thucydides Political Ideology

My thesis for this essay is that Thucydides has not created a political ideology in his work, but created the notion real politik that is still being used in international politics widely and that certain politics are still being repeated. This essay will be focusing on the book by Thucydides on the history of the Peloponnesian Wars and will create arguments that would connect to nowadays international politics scene. These arguments are important due to their insights on how Thucydides described power relations of a war that happened in the Ancient Age and how these relations are still similar to those of the postmodern ages.
Thucydides gives a variety of views via a selection of actors, and whilst he interrupts the narrative together with his personal voice, for instance when commenting on the post- Pericles political competition that came about in Athens or at the Corcyran stasis, his remarks, as can be proven, are often not directly critical of certain propositions. Actors such as the Corcyrans, and mostly with the Athenians are introduces …show more content…
Central realist assumptions can be traced to Thucdides, which in his particular iteration includes anarchy, the importance of organized social groups, rationality, the drive to maximize power, and the inherent amorality of international politics. However, the positing of rationality in regards to certain behaviours of reading of the behaviour of a number of actors; at some level, states like Melos and Sparta act on the basis of a specific conception of justice or piety, and do not respond rationally to international conditions. Here, Thucydides shows how Greek political groups and the cultures that underlie them, are not immutably coherent but are fluid; they can both integrate (a goal pursued, e.g., by Syracuse's Hermokrates Sicily) and disintegrate (e.g.,