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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781465581570
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416590873
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : H. Don Cameron
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472068474
Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226734002
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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521339294
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 : Blaise Nagy
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781585104833
An annotated and illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories with introductory material for all eight books of the Histories, commentary and grammatical notes. This book is a standard text for any college course in reading Thucydides in Greek. It is also suitable for post-intermediate, secondary school students who want to tackle the works of a popular but challenging author.
Author : George Cawkwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134708437
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.
Author : Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110533071
Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two centuries, the narrative plan of Book 8 remains an obscure subject, as we do not possess an extensive and detailed presentation of its whole narrative design. Vasileios Liotsakis tries to satisfy this central desideratum of the Thucydidean scholarship by offering a thorough description of the compositional plan, which, in his opinion, Thucydides put into effect in the last 109 chapters of his work. His study elaborates on the structural parts of the book, their details, and the various techniques through which Thucydides composed his narration in order to reach the internal cohesion of these chapters as well as their close connection to the rest of the History. Liotsakis offers us an original approach not only of Book 8 but also of the whole work, since his observations reshape our overall view of the History.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0872201694
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 : 762 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521847742
A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.
Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176928
Edition of the latter part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).
Author : Graham Allison
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780544935334
NATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China—and how it might be prevented. China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve. At the time of publication, an unstoppable China approached an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promised to make their countries “great again,” the seventeenth case was looking grim—it still is. A trade conflict, cyberattack, Korean crisis, or accident at sea could easily spark a major war. In Destined for War, eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison masterfully blends history and current events to explain the timeless machinery of Thucydides’s Trap—and to explore the painful steps that might prevent disaster today. SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON)* AMAZON “Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around.” — President Joe Biden “[A] must-read book in both Washington and Beijing.” — Boston Globe “[Full of] wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history . . . [A] fine book.”— New York Times Book Review
Author : Walter Robert Connor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400820047
This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the reader's role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals Thucydides' use of objectivity not so much as a standard for the proper presentation of his subject matter as a method for communicating with his readers and involving them in the complexity and suffering of the Peloponnesian War. W. Robert Connor shows that as Thucydides' themes and ideas are reintroduced and developed, the initial reactions of the reader are challenged, subverted, and eventually made to contribute to a deeper understanding of the war.
Author : Athanasios G. Platias,Kōnstantinos Koliopoulos
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190696382
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.