The Life And Times Of Thucydides

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2008-06
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1584156988

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Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek world was ripped apart. A savage conflict known as the Peloponnesian War pitted many of the Greek city-states against each other. It dragged on for nearly 30 years and cost tens of thousands of lives. We know a great deal about what went on because a man named Thucydides wrote a book about the war. Called History of the Peloponnesian War, it was the first book of "scientific history." Thucydides' description of the war was based entirely on observation of events and an analysis of human nature. Unlike accounts by earlier writers, the gods didn't play any role. Early in his book, Thucydides wrote that he believed it would be "a possession for all time." His prediction proved to be correct. Historians, military officers, and many other people still read History of the Peloponnesian War for its insights into politics and human nature. Book jacket.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545748527

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The Life and Times of Thucydides by Jim Whiting Pdf

Presents a brief biography of Thucydides who wrote History of the Peloponnesian War and provides information on background and the importance of his book as the first work of scientific history.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781465581570

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002844657

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Thucydides by Donald Kagan Pdf

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 : Thucydides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416590873

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The Landmark Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0872201694

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On Justice, Power & Human Nature by Thucydides Pdf

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691190150

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How to Think about War by Thucydides Pdf

An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis. How to Think about War presents the most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new translation by classicist Johanna Hanink, accompanied by an enlightening introduction, informative headnotes, and the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an ideally accessible introduction to Thucydides’s long and challenging History. Thucydides intended his account of the clash between classical Greece’s mightiest powers—Athens and Sparta—to be a “possession for all time.” Today, it remains a foundational work for the study not only of ancient history but also contemporary politics and international relations. How to Think about War features speeches that have earned the History its celebrated status—all of those delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles’s funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless “Melian Dialogue.” Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and imperialism. The first English-language collection of speeches from Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Great Minds
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1573922161

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History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

The Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-400 b.c.e.) called a "convulsion" affecting all humankind. Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others. The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts; even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened.

Author : Thucydides,Steven Lattimore
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015016885017

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The History of Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1377945588

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Speeches; by Thucydides Thucydides Pdf

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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547178620

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Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015032398227

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The History of Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf