The Great War Between Athens And Sparta A Companion To The Military History Of Thucydides

Author : Dr. Bernard W. Henderson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786256652

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The Great War Between Athens And Sparta: A Companion To The Military History Of Thucydides by Dr. Bernard W. Henderson Pdf

As “a companion to the military history of Thucydides,” this learned and thoughtful treatise by a well-known Oxford tutor is assured of a hearty welcome. For Dr. Henderson, in retelling the story of the most famous of all wars, gives the essence of many commentaries on Thucydides, with numerous maps and plans, and also cites recent parallels to the old campaigns. Thucydides is so modern in his outlook that this method of treatment is not merely permissible but entirely appropriate. Dr. Henderson has a vivacious style and enters heartily into the spirit of the many dramatic episodes, such as Cleon’s victory at Sphacteria, or the desecrating of the “Herniae” on the very eve of the sailing of the expedition to Syracuse, or the condemnation of the Athenian generals after their last great sea-victory at Arginusae. Even those who think that they know their Thucydides well may learn a good deal from the book. And the implied lesson of the crimes and follies that an uncontrolled democracy can commit—comes out stronger than ever.—The Spectator Archive

Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0405047754

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The Great War Between Athens and Sparta by Bernard William Henderson Pdf

Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Athen - Geschichte 433 v. Chr.-403 v. Chr
ISBN : 0405047908

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The Great War Between Athens and Sparta by Bernard William Henderson Pdf

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547764670

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The History of the Peloponnesian War (Complete Edition) by Thucydides Pdf

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.

Author : Jean Ducat,Thomas J. Figueira
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589991

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Thucydides and Sparta by Jean Ducat,Thomas J. Figueira Pdf

Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his information on the subject is more scattered and implicit. Scholars in recent decades have made progress in teasing out the sense of Thucydides' often lapidary remarks on Sparta. This book takes the process further. Its eight new studies by international specialists aim to reveal coherent structures both in Thucydidean thought and in Spartan reality.This volume is the second of a series in which the Classical Press of Wales applies to Spartan history the approach it is already using for the history of Rome's revolutionary era: focusing in turn on each of the main sources on which historians depend, and analysing with a combination of historical and literary methods.

Author : Thucydides,Steven Lattimore
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588364906

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A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson Pdf

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.

Author : Athanasios G. Platias,Kōnstantinos Koliopoulos
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190696382

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Thucydides on Strategy by Athanasios G. Platias,Kōnstantinos Koliopoulos Pdf

Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its deep political and military dimensions, and scholars have begun to place the work alongside Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Clausewitz's On War as one of the great treatises on strategy. The perfect companion to Thucydides' impressive History, this volume details the specific strategic concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the continuing relevance of Thucydidean thought to an analysis and planning of strategic operations. Some have even credited Thucydides with founding the discipline of international relations. Written by two scholars with extensive experience in this and related fields, Thucydides on Strategy situates the classical historian solidly in the modern world of war.

Author : Athanassios Platias,Constantinos Koliopoulos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197548059

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Thucydides on Strategy by Athanassios Platias,Constantinos Koliopoulos Pdf

Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its deep political and military dimensions, and scholars have begun to place the work alongside Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Clausewitz's On War as one of the great treatises on strategy. The perfect companion to Thucydides' impressive History, this volume details the specific strategic concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the continuing relevance of Thucydidean thought to an analysis and planning of strategic operations. Some have even credited Thucydides with founding the discipline of international relations. Written by two scholars with extensive experience in this and related fields, Thucydides on Strategy situates the classical historian solidly in the modern world of war.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504062886

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History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

A thorough account of the war between Athens and Sparta by the historian who witnessed it. The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, and the Delian League, led by Athens, went to war in 431 BC. The conflict lasted more than two decades, and Thucydides, who served as an Athenian general, wrote its definitive history: an account remarkable for both its objectivity and its focus on the humanity of the war rather than any intervention by the gods. Though primarily a military history, this book also shines a great light on the political and social aspects of the ancient conflict, including its effect on civilians. Thucydides’s work is a landmark of historical scholarship that makes the events of the fifth century BC come vividly to life.

Author : By Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798636250180

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The History of The Peloponnesian War (Annotated) by By Thucydides Pdf

Normally recognized as one of the most punctual direct written records of history, this great work narratives the war among Athens and Sparta during the fifth century B.C. Its creator, Thucydides, impartially and precisely depicts the occasions of this antiquated Greek war in an exacting order which incorporates the reasons for the contention, portrayals of war zone methodology, political feelings, and every other part of the war in the splendid detail of a scholarly and perceptive observer. Himself an Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides relates the invasions, treacheries, plagues, amazing speeches, ambitions, virtues, and emotions of the conflict between two of Greece's most dominant city-states in a work that has the feel of a great tragic drama. However, to some degree an investigation of war approach, "The History" is additionally a dramatic account of the rise and fall of Athens by an Athenian. As such, it provides a historical warning for modern military, political, and international relations.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467295

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A 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.

Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781592175

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War in Ancient Greece by Bob Carruthers Pdf

The Athenian Thucydides (c490-395BC) wrote this history of the Peloponnesian War between the Spartans and the Athenians, believing that it would be a greater war than any that had preceded it, and his version of events would serve as ña possession for all timeî.??The fragmentary nature of ancient Greece increased the frequency of conflict, but conversely limited the scale of warfare. Unable to maintain professional armies, the city-states relied on their own citizens to fight, reducing the potential duration of campaigns. The rise of Athens and Sparta as preeminent powers, however, led directly to the Peloponnesian War, which saw further development of the nature of warfare, strategy and tactics. Fought between leagues of cities dominated by Athens and Sparta, the increased manpower and financial resources increased the scale, and allowed the diversification of warfare. Set-piece battles during the Peloponnesian war proved indecisive and instead there was increased reliance on attritionary strategies, naval battle and blockades and sieges.??This book is essential reading for anyone interested the military history of the classical world.??As seen in All About History Magazine.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCSC:32106007218966

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The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is widely considered to be the definitive ancient treatment of the period it covers. The work summarizes events from the years leading up to the war (the Pentecontaetia) and gives an in-depth treatment from the late 430s BC to 411 BC, where it ends in midsentence.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387751006

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

The classic account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley. An Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides relates the invasions, treacheries, plagues, amazing speeches, ambitions, virtues, and emotions of the storied conflict between Athens and Sparta in a work that has the feel of a tragic drama. Though in part an analysis of war policy, The History of the Peloponnesian War is also a dramatic account of the rise and fall of Athens by an Athenian man.