Luck (and Lucklessness) in Ancient Greek Thought

Daniel Schillinger joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new book Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought (global.oup.com/academic/product/luckless-97801…;), which recently appeared with Oxford University Press.
Find out more about Daniel's work here: danielschillinger.com
Ancient authors and texts
• Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
• Euripides, Trojan Women (and Hippolytus)
• Thucydides
• Aristotle, Physics, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics (Daniel's book also contains a chapter on the Eudemian Ethics)
Other works/authors
• Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy; The Prince
• Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
• Arlene Saxenhouse, work on tragedy (see esp. her 1988 "The tyranny of reason in the world of the polis, in The American Political Science Review 82: 1261-1275)
• H.P. Stahl, Thucydides: Man's Place in History
• Leo Strauss, On Thucydides' War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians," chapter in The City and Man
• Bernard Williams, Moral Luck
• Adam Parry's scholarship on Thucydides
• And others: Arendt, Freud, Kant, Nietzsche, Rawls...
About our Guest
Daniel Schillinger is a Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches in the Directed Studies Program and offers seminars on Greek political thought. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Yale Center for Civic Thought and a recipient of the Lux et Veritas teaching prize.
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