🔒 Thucidides’s ‘Archaeology’ (part 1)
Subscriber-only episode Having discussed the opening paragraph, I now turn to the second paragraph which marks the beginning of the text traditionally referred to as ‘the Archaeology’ (paragraphs 2-20). Here is where we begin to see our theme in the series of technology. At issue is the emerging way in which Thucydides understands the role of techne in the life of man and what that reveals about the possibility of political community. As I show, this unfolds into a way in wh...