Thukydides'in Arkhaiologia Bölümünde Hippokratik tıbbın bir ikna yöntemi olarak kullanılması
Özet
The subject of this study is how Thucydides uses archaiologia as a persuasion method by being influenced from Prognosticon on the notion that the war between Athens and Sparta is worthier to mention than the previous wars. Meanwhile, how the theory of appearence of the diseases is used as a model in Hippocratic medicine and then how the historian searches for this model in past narrative are tried to be explained. The basis of this study is based particularly on the concepts of dynamis and koin? which were frequently used in Hippocratic Corpus and Thucydides? History. As stated in Alcmaion and De Prisca Medicina, Thucydides regards this war as the conflict of opposite forces. On the one hand there is a Peloponnesian League known for its land forces and on the other hand there is Attic-Delian League which got even stronger in the aftermath of the Persian wars in terms of naval forces. When the narrative of the historians is compared with the theory of disease, it can be seen that all conditions which are neccessary for war exist: The division of the Greek who were once united during the Persian Wars, the appearence of two opposite forces in the Greek World and the disturbance of the balance of force. This is the analysis of existing situation by the historian. After this analysis what is left to the historian is to persuade the reader on the idea that this war is worthier to mention than the previous ones. In order to do it, the historian begins to search for this constitution within the past narrative (archaiologia).Thucydides cannot find a similar constitution to Athens which stands out for its naval forces and secure this force under the banner of aleague although he finds some constitutions which may resemble Athens, and heregards previous movements deprived of collective spirit for some reasons. In this far past narrative, the other element which the historian cannot find is another constitution which stands out for its land forces and secures its force under the banner of a league as Sparta does.