Stasis (Anatomy of Civil War)
A city tearing itself apart in factional bloodshed — and watching its very language and morals rot in the process.
Stasis means factional strife or civil war, which Greek historians analyzed as a recurring social pathology — almost a disease of the body politic. Thucydides' (late 5th c. BCE) account of the revolution at Corcyra is the classic case: party violence corrupted society so deeply that the very meanings of words inverted and ordinary morality dissolved. Treated as a predictable, recurring phenomenon, stasis became central to Greek political thought on revolution and its causes.
How it traveled
- Res Publica AtheniensiumChalcis · -325explains
- De domo sua ad pontificesFormiae · -57explains
- Pro P. SestioFormiae · -56explains
- De haruspicum responso in P. ClodiumFormiae · -56explains
- In L. Calpurnium PisonemFormiae · -55explains
- Pro Cn. PlancioFormiae · -54explains
- Pro T. Annio MiloneFormiae · -52applies
- Antiquitates RomanaeRomeexplains
- HistoriaeRomeexplains
- Epitome HistoriarumConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- Historical LibrarySyracuse (Sicily)explains
- Historia RomanaRomeexplains
- Ecclesiastical history—explains
- Historia NovaConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- Facta et Dicta MemorabiliaRomeexplains
- Breviarium historiae romanaeConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- OrationesPrusaexplains
- Historia Ecclesiastica—explains
- Historia Ecclesiastica—explains
- Epitome Rerum RomanorumRomeexplains
- De BellisConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- Strategemata—explains
- Historia ArcanaConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- Historia Ecclesiastica—explains
- Orationes 42Smyrnaexplains
- Vita Constantini—explains
- HistoriaeConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- ThebaisRomeexplains
- Alexias—explains
- Orationes 44Smyrnaexplains
- De Vita PythagoricaApameaexplains
- Historiarum Alexandri MagniRomeexplains
- ControversiaeRomeexplains
- Suidae lexicon—explains
- Epistulae—explains
- Scholia in Iliadem—explains
- Excerpta ControversiaeRomeexplains
- Fall of TroySmyrnaexplains
- ThrasybulusRomeexplains
- SuasoriaeRomeexplains
Key passages(20)
Res Publica Atheniensium · Aristotle
Historical Library · Diodorus Siculus
Historical Library · Diodorus Siculus
Historical Library · Diodorus Siculus
Historical Library · Diodorus Siculus
Historical Library · Diodorus Siculus
Historical Library · Diodorus Siculus
Antiquitates Romanae · Dionysius of Halicarnassus