Intro to Thucydides and 1.1

This is the full recording of a discussion for the series "Technology and Nihilism" in philosophy on my website AthensCorner.com. At issue here is what Thucydides understands himself as providing us in his text. Accordingly, the question at hand in the opening of the text is this:Is Thucydides's text simply or merely "history," or does he understand himself as providing something much more encompassing of human life than our contemporary understanding of history? I explore t...