The oligarchic lexicon in the VIII book of Thucydides

Authors

  • Paulo Donoso Johnson Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract

This article intend to analyse some concepts inside in the Thucydides book VIII. Concepts like, acquire a different sense influenced by the psychological content that the historian prints in his work.These words allow understand the events of the 411 B.C. and the Thucydides perspectives during the last years of the Peloponnesian War.

Keywords:

Oligarchy, Thucydides, etymology, political theory