AJP Monographs in Classical Philology This series of publications of the Amvricen Journal of Phildogy is inended 10 meet a need in the broad Feld of classical studies: Hs primary purpose i t publish andl to encourage the publication of Significant work thats too long to sppearin aril form and to short, lor s conventional book (hat mamascripts of between one hurd nd two hundred pages). The series covers Greck and Roman iterate. textual ertlsm, dassical ingustie, ancient philosophy, untry and Greek and Latin epigraphy. Series Editor Diskin Clay |. Basil Lanneau Gilderslrse: An Americen Class edited by Ward W, Sriggs. Je, and Herbert W, Benario 2 The Herc Muse: Seis in the Hippolytus and Hecuba of Euripides, >y David Kovacs, The Archtetve of Hesiade Poetry, by Richard Hamilton | Pindar ond Homer, by Frank J iseich Power on Preparedness i Phys, by Jane W. Alison POWER AND PREPAREDNESS IN THUCYDIDES June W. Allison THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore and LondonFORMY PARENTS AND IN MEMORY OF [AMES S80 Then Hopi Ue Pe ‘The Jos Hopi Unies Pres “The Johns Huptins rw Lid Lemon he apr ad tation mets he ints oct ffeil Seer Iona ire ie Pl aa trary of Congres: CaagnginPubicnton Date ‘Aso. Jane W. Powe al prepared nT (Je moncgrpin in ac piogy <5) Doge | Tncaerndex, Thies. ary of the Peopoonean Wa 2. Gree Hr —Peoponnsan fy 1304 BC Hitcigrphy 3. Patent The Creek ont DrEBTsAa1 Tow 908 S84MHID Te as i eer i ak ef Al Moai Ht fe song hoe nl tad laf the tn Va Reg Rao ni Home ang TH ee CONTENTS List of Tables Preface Inrodiuction Chapter One THE ARCHAEOLOGY Chapter Two PARASKEUE, USE AND MEANING Chapter ‘Three ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS. Chapter Four ‘THE GREATEST PARASKEUE, BOOKS 6 AND 7 Chapter Five BOOK 8 ‘Chapter Six CONCLUSION Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Locoruen ey “6 66 nL 132 135 ut 155 165LIST OF TABLES 1. Outline of 11-22 2 Outline of 11-19) 5, Frequency of Prasue and Poasheuazen in Thucydides and Other Authors 4. Diagram of 1.80-2.62 5, Outline of 470-120 6, Outline of References to Aims and Purposes in Sicily 7. Process-Produet Ambiguity in 6.1-26 8, ProcessProduet Ambiguity in 6.27—44 9. Schema oF 6.30.1-442 10, Process-Product Ambiguity in 645-105, 1. Schema of 645-68 12 Process Product Ambiguity in Book 7 18. Outline of 85.1-15.1 4 46 6 6 oo 99 9% 09 wa PREFACE “The present study is developed from my dissertation, Puraseu; Preparation n Thucydides (Univers of Patsburgh 1974), The new me ‘eral reflects my evaluation of Thucydides concept of power and the role he gave to peastee in the expression of that comeept ay it was Fealized by the parties othe Peloponnesian War Ihave come hick o this topic after more than a decade because my work in other areas of Greek fas convinced me ofthe unique poniton the historian cre ated for the notion of preparedness in politcal and miliary Meolo- fies. Excusably it importance has not been recognized by scholars either of Thucydides or Greek polital philosophy primarily because ‘of the more frequent cecurrence of other related terms inthe tera ture, 4. dmamis seems wo have cornered the market on the denota- tion ‘power. But pechaps itis more likely to be the cave that prepa ration i such a commonplace shat we have filed to envision 4 period inthe writing of poliical history when it might have become the ¥ety basis of the expression of power and especially when the Language had recently come to possess 2 new abstract noun capable of convey ing all the faces of preparedness. For sharing his time and knowledge in the completion of the ‘original work I wish vo express my gratitude to my adviser, Hany © Avery: also want so thank Gunther Hellbunn and Mae} Smethurs, ‘who read more than one version of the thesis. I extend » special thanks to Karen Gisler and Madonna Alessndro, who, always wi ood humor, typed the manuscript in its various sages. For theit sound criticism and suggestions {am grateful to Philip Forsythe, Thomas Loening, Yannis Tzfopoulos, and especially to the editor, Diskin Clay To Stephen V. Tracy my acknowledgment here is, Tat afraid, far 100 sight. He spent many boure reading avd crtcicing the drafts, and I suspect much remains which sll trikes him as"Thnr ‘dian have translated the cations; where it was necessary to have the Greck Ihave provided both. In some diagrams and plilological ‘outlines and discussion where the English would have made no sense. have used only the Greek, Often in an eur to convey the force of some specific usage Ihave resorted to bighly