I consistently render diaphorai and cognates by ‘difference’, as (1) implying estrangement and rifts; (2) cognate (via the Latin) with the Greek; and (3) most conducive to Thucydidean wordplay. I consistently render aitia and cognates by ‘cause’. This perhaps underplays the ‘grievance’ element, but any choice involves trade-offs; ‘cause’ can have negative implications; it is important to reproduce ‘double causality’; and maintenance of consistent vocabulary is thoroughly desirable.It is vital to read 23.4–6 as integral to chapters 22–3 (though space—or ennui—precludes discussion of that section) and, indeed, to chapters 1–23, or, at least, to test its integrality, since some scholars hold it a late addition. The salient points are these:
I consistently render diaphorai and cognates by ‘difference’, as (1) implying estrangement and rifts; (2) cognate (via the Latin) with the Greek; and (3) most conducive to Thucydidean wordplay. I consistently render aitia and cognates by ‘cause’. This perhaps underplays the ‘grievance’ element, but any choice involves trade-offs; ‘cause’ can have negative implications; it is important to reproduce ‘double causality’; and maintenance of consistent vocabulary is thoroughly desirable.<br>It is vital to read 23.4–6 as integral to chapters 22–3 (though space—or ennui—precludes discussion of that section) and, indeed, to chapters 1–23, or, at least, to test its integrality, since some scholars hold it a late addition. The salient points are these:
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