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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781465581570
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002844657
Kagan, one of the foremost classics scholars, illuminates the historian Thucydides and his greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," both by examining him in the context of his time and by considering him as a revisionist historian.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226734002
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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416590873
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author : George Beardoe Grundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCR:31210002108031
Author : Thucydides,Steven Lattimore
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0872203948
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 : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798556603400
""The History of the Peloponnesian" War (Greek: Ἱστορίαι, "Histories") 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 served 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 : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521847742
A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.
Author : Hunter R. Rawlings III
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400856572
In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter Rawlings contends that Thucydides consciously divided the war into two parallel ten-year conflicts with a period of nominal peace in the middle. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Emily Greenwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472502438
Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still challenges the reader: there is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History when it was written in the fifth century, and how 'contemporary' is it now? This book approaches the shaping of history from three different angles: the way in which Thucydides shaped history and how his narrative shapes our experience as readers of the History; the relationship between Thucydides' work and contemporary institutions, such as the theatre; and the role that ancient readers and modern scholars have played in shaping how we perceive the History. This book combines a close analysis of Thucydides' narrative with a discussion of its intellectual motivation; it examines how the historian attempted to determine the way in which readers would respond to his conception of the events of the Atheno-Peloponnesian War, and to ensure the continuing influence of his ideas.
Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520918740
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.
Author : Hans-Peter Stahl
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589311
Stahl's classic book on Thucydides, here in English for the first time, penetrates as few others to the Greek writer's deepest interests. Stahl reveals Thucydides' work as a study in the fallibility of human projections. Above all, Thucydides is shown as interested in tracking how optimistic plans lead to irremediable suffering in the field of foreign policy. For this new edition, the original has been revised and enlarged by two chapters which reflect the author's subsequent work.
Author : Williamson Murray,Richard Hart Sinnreich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452588
In today's military of rapid technological and strategic change, obtaining a complete understanding of the present, let alone the past, is a formidable challenge. Yet the very high rate of change today makes study of the past more important than ever before. The Past as Prologue, first published in 2006, explores the usefulness of the study of history for contemporary military strategists. It illustrates the great importance of military history while simultaneously revealing the challenges of applying the past to the present. Essays from authors of diverse backgrounds - British and American, civilian and military - come together to present an overwhelming argument for the necessity of the study of the past by today's military leaders in spite of these challenges. The essays of Part I examine the relationship between history and the military profession. Those in Part II explore specific historical cases that show the repetitiveness of certain military problems.
Author : Thucydides,Xenophon,J.B. Bury
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066308971
The Peloponnesian War took place in the 5th Century BC. This war was fought between Athens and Sparta – at the time the two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece. The Peloponnesian War reshaped the ancient Greek world, made a significant power shift in ancient Greece, favoring Sparta. It caused the total regional decline and marked the dramatic end to the fifth century BC and the golden age of Greece. Ancient Greek warfare, originally a limited and formalized form of conflict, was transformed into an all-out struggle between city-states, complete with atrocities on a large scale. Shattering religious and cultural taboos, devastating vast swathes of countryside, and destroying whole cities, the Peloponnesian War marked the dramatic end to the fifth century BC and the golden age of Greece. This book provides a thorough insight into this period of the history of ancient Greece and this devastating conflict through the work of the prominent modern historian J. B. Bury, as well as the most important contemporary sources - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and Hellenica by Xenophon. Content: Introduction The History of the Peloponnesian War (by J.B. Bury) Primary Sources The Peloponnesian War (by Thucydides) Hellenica: The Final Years of the War Its Aftermath (by Xenophon) The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. Hellenica by Xenophon is direct continuation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. There is virtually no transition between the two works, to the extent that the opening words of Hellenica are translated as "After this", or sometimes "Following these events". The Hellenica recounts the last seven years of the Peloponnesian war, as well as its aftermath.
Author : Jean Ducat,Thomas J. Figueira
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589991
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.