Dean's Lecture Series: Karl Walling on Thucydides

"“Thucydides on Strategic Pathology, Tragedy, and the Sicilian Expedition”
Karl Walling

Thucydides was a political pathologist, a student of political diseases,
including and especially those which afflict democracies in times of war.
This lecture links Thucydides’ understanding of political disease in
Athens to its decision to launch and failures in the conduct of the ill-fated
Sicilian expedition. Consistent more with modern than ancient tragedy,
the account occurs in five separate acts detailing how and why Athens
self-destructed in Sicily and the impact of its self-destruction in Sicily on
its ultimate defeat in the Peloponnesian War.

0:00 - Intro
3:26 - Lecture
1:22:12 - Question Period

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