Can the "strong-weak" quote be taken as Thucydides' normative stance? I understand he was chronicling the war, but it's intriguing to ask if this was Thucydides' own view, or just someone else's view he's the scribe for.
Sounds a bit like the question of whether Plato was really "documenting" Socrates in his dialogues, or was using the character Socrates (based on the real-life Socrates, Plato's teacher), as a mouthpiece for Plato's own ideas.
'Strong and weak' in Thucidydes
Can the "strong-weak" quote be taken as Thucydides' normative stance? I understand he was chronicling the war, but it's intriguing to ask if this was Thucydides' own view, or just someone else's view he's the scribe for.
Sounds a bit like the question of whether Plato was really "documenting" Socrates in his dialogues, or was using the character Socrates (based on the real-life Socrates, Plato's teacher), as a mouthpiece for Plato's own ideas.