Liberty, Leadership, and the Images of the Battle of Salamis
ABSTRACT
This conference examined the implications for a free society of military preparedness and international engagement through the historical experience of the Battle of Salamis among the Greek city-states in general and Athens in particular. Is a modern free society like that of an ancient polis with respect to liberty? Are the implications of military order and preparedness the same today as they were then?
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Aeschylus. Aeschylus II, 2nd edition. Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. Translated by Seth G. Benardete and David Grene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Constant, Benjamin. “The Liberty of Ancients Compared with That of Moderns [1816] .” Downloaded from Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty. http://lf-oll.s3.amazonaws.com/titles/2251/Constant_Liberty1521_EBk_v6.0.pdf (October 2018).
Euben, J. Peter. “The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory.” Political Theory 14, no. 3 (August 1986): 359-390.
Green, Peter. The Greco-Persian Wars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Hansen, Mogens Herman, “The Ancient Athenian and the Modern Liberal View of Liberty as a Democratic Ideal” In Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern, edited by Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick, 91-104. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Hanson, Victor Davis. Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.
Herodotus. The Histories. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Plato. The Laws of Plato. Translated by Thomas L. Pangle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Plutarch. The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert. London: Penguin Classics, 1960.
Strauss, Barry S., “The Athenian Trireme, School of Democracy” In Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern, edited by Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick, 313-325. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Thucydides. On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1993.