Melian Dialogue

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The Melian Dialogue is a famous passage in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War that dramatizes a stark debate between Athenian envoys and the neutral island of Melos, illustrating the brutal logic of power politics and realpolitik.

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Thucydides described Melian Dialogue
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