Can 'the people' make policy decisions ("lets go with this guys plan!") on their own, or is there some mediating body of elites (often former magistrates or elders) who can pump the brakes if they think the people are being swindled?
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Do you not get the strong sense from a passage like this that Thucydides loves Athens and its form of government? Serious question.pic.twitter.com/QvDp2tdoWw
I get the sense that Pericles does; he's speaking here, not Thucydides. There's a whole exciting debate about the degree to which Thucydides' speeches were his own construction or original (he claims to have gotten the gist of the original when he could)...
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...but this is a speech he could have personally attended or had direct, reliable reports of. A fair number of his readers would have been witnesses to the speech. Which suggests it follows Pericles' thinking, rather than Thucydides'
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Maybe. I tend to think that when people were reading it 15 or 20 years or more after the fact, they were probably not fact-checking it too strenuously, and Thucydides probably suspected they would not, as he had just then invented fact-checking.
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