Audio recording of a lecture given by Charlotte Thomas on March 5, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Thucydides gives a scathing account of Nicias’s failures in Sicily and then says, just before his awful death, that Nicias was least among the Hellenes to deserve such a fate because 'the whole of his life had been ordered toward virtue.' In this essay, I try to think through what this eulogy means and whether or not Thucydides presents it as a compliment.Charlotte Thomas is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Great Books Program at Mercer University, and author of The Female Drama: The Philosophical Feminine in the Soul of Plato’s Republic (Mercer University Press, 2019)."

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