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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 Atheniensium
Chalcis · -325
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De domo sua ad pontifices
Formiae · -57
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Pro P. Sestio
Formiae · -56
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De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium
Formiae · -56
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In L. Calpurnium Pisonem
Formiae · -55
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Pro Cn. Plancio
Formiae · -54
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Pro T. Annio Milone
Formiae · -52
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Historiae
Rome · -35
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Antiquitates Romanae
Rome
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Historiae
Rome
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Epitome Historiarum
Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Historical Library
Syracuse (Sicily)
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Historia Romana
Rome
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Ecclesiastical history
—
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Historia Nova
Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Facta et Dicta Memorabilia
Rome
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Breviarium historiae romanae
Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Orationes
Prusa
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Historia Ecclesiastica
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Historia Ecclesiastica
—
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Epitome Rerum Romanorum
Rome
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De Bellis
Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Strategemata
—
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Historia Arcana
Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Historia Ecclesiastica
—
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Vita Constantini
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Historiae
Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Orationes 42
Smyrna
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Thebais
Rome
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Orationes 44
Smyrna
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Origin Anchor — gr-stasis-civil-strife↗origin

Fragments & Testimonia · Thucydides