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Thucydides on the Insecurity of Tyranny: A Comment on Professors Lebow and Bluhm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2022

Barry S. Strauss
Barry S. Strauss*
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Cornell University
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Exchange on “The Paranoia of the Powerful: Thucydides on World War III”
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , Summer 1984 , pp. 594 - 596
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1984

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References

1 Lebow, R. N., “The Paranoia of the Powerful: Thucydides and World War III,” PS 17, 1 (Winter 1984), pp. 10–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 W. T. Bluhm, “Hybris and Aggression: A Critique of Lebow's “Paranoia of the Powerful” and an Alternative Theory,” current PS.

3 Lebow, , “Paranoia,” p. 10.Google Scholar

4 Bluhm, , “ Hybris and Aggression,” pp. 2–3.Google Scholar

5 See Kagan, Donald, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (Ithaca: 1981), 148.Google Scholar

6 All quotations are from Warner's, Rex translation, Thucydides, , The Peloponnesian War (Harmondsworth: 1954).Google Scholar

7 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos, II. 330–407, 512–677.