465 Greek Lit and Game Theory (with Professor Josiah Ober)
The History of Literature
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How Do We Get Our Best Out?
Game Theory is a theory of how people make choices based on other people who are also making choices. Plato puts this all into a very particular literary form. And Thucydides, another writing on the Peloponnesian War once again, takes the same set of questions, puts it into a literary form. They presented this not in abstract mathematics, but he unjust powerful works of literature that speak to us today and clearly spoke powerfully to people at the time.
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