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The History of the Peloponnesian War

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781465581570

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The Peloponnesian War

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226801056

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The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."—Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago

Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

Author : George Cawkwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134708437

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Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War by George Cawkwell Pdf

Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible. This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian Empire. Cawkwell's comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.

A War Like No Other

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588364906

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One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato. Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

The Landmark Thucydides

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416590873

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Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467219

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176928

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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling Pdf

Edition of the latter part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).

The Peloponnesian War

Author : Thucydides,Steven Lattimore
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0872203948

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The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides,Steven Lattimore Pdf

Presents an English translation of the Greek text which provides an account of the people and events involved in the long, fifth-century conflict between Athens and Sparta, and includes notes, a glossary, and other resources.

The Peloponnesian War

Author : J.F Lazenby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134341016

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The Peloponnesian War by J.F Lazenby Pdf

The range and extent of the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC has led to it being described as a 'world war' in miniature. With the struggle between Athens and Sparta at its core, the twenty-seven-year conflict drew in states from all points of the compass; from Byzantion in the north, Crete in the south, Asia Minor in the east and Sicily in the west. Since Thucydides described the war as 'the greatest disturbance to befall the Greeks' numerous studies have been made of individual episodes and topics. This authoritative work is the first single-volume study of the entire war to be published in over seventy-five years. Lazenby avoids the tendency of allowing historiography to obscure the analysis, and while paying due attention to detail, also looks at the fundamental questions of warfare raised by the conflict. Within a narrative framework, Lazenby concentrates on the fighting itself, and examining the way in which both strategy and tactics developed as the conflict spread. Not afraid to challenge accepted views, he assesses the war as a military rather than a political endeavour, evaluating issues such as the advantages and limitations of sea power. A readable and clear survey, this text offers a balanced discussion of controversial themes, and will appeal to ancient historians, classicists and all those who are interested in military history.

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467202

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hayes Barton Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Greece
ISBN : PSU:000000525015

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The Peloponnesian War

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521339294

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The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. Professor Rusten's commentary aims to assist the students to learn to read Thucydides. It scrutinises not only the standard historical context but also the literary and philosophical one, and devotes special attention to the exceptionally complex structures and techniques of language which make Thucydides the most difficult as well as most profound of ancient historians. The introduction surveys biographical interpretations of the text, suggests a new approach to fictive elements in the speeches, and sketches the chief features of Thucydidean style. This edition is intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools (both introduction and commentary are meant to be accessible even to less advanced students of Greek), but any Greek scholar will find it rewarding.

Xenophon’s Peloponnesian War

Author : Aggelos Kapellos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110668315

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Xenophon’s Peloponnesian War by Aggelos Kapellos Pdf

The advances in Xenophontic studies of the last generation have still not resulted in a definitive literary treatment of the Hellenica 1-2, so Xenophon’s description of the Peloponnesian War deserves closer examination. This book aims to show that Xenophon has crafted his narrative in such a way as to reinforce the opinion of Thucydides, whose work he continued, that the development of the Peloponnesian War depended to a great extent on Persian money, but the factors that ultimately determined its outcome were the moral virtues and the skills of the military leaders of Athens and Sparta. Regarding Athens, Xenophon wants to show that despite Persia’s support of Sparta, Athens lost the war because of its troubled relationship with Alcibiades; the moral disintegration of the Athenians who condemned illegally the Arginousai generals and the appointment of generals who were greatly inferior. Concerning Sparta, Xenophon leads his readers to believe that in spite of- not because of- the interference of Persia in the Peloponnesian War the moral and military qualities of Lysander and Callicratidas were what turned the course of the war either in favor of or against Sparta in each phase of the war.

New History of the Peloponnesian War

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467288

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New History of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the four-volume set in The New Yorker, George Steiner wrote, "The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid. . . . Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers." All four volumes are also sold separately as both print books and ebooks.

Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317697695

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Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals) by Barry Strauss Pdf

Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that – at least in the case of Athens – has received far less attention. Along with the problems of reconstructing the economy and replenishing the population, the problem of renegotiating political consensus was equally acute. Athens after the Peloponnesian War, first published in 1986, undertakes a radically new investigation into the nature of Athenian political groups. The general model of ‘faction’ provided by political anthropology provides an indispensable paradigm for the Athenian case. More widely, Professor Strauss argues for the importance of the economic, social and ideological changes resulting from the Peloponnesian War in the development of political nexus. Athens after the Peloponnesian War offers a detailed demographic analysis, astute insight into political discourse, and is altogether one of the most thorough treatments of this important period in the Athenian democracy.