Thucydides As A War Correspondent And Philosopher In Classical Greece

Author : E.J. Krigas
Publisher : Author House
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467004428

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Thucydides as a War Correspondent and Philosopher in Classical Greece by E.J. Krigas Pdf

This book tries to present another aspect of the Classical Greek historian Thucydides by studying the persona of the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War. E.J. Krigas attempts a review of Thucydides' multi-faceted character (ranging from military commander to analytical philosopher to war correspondent) based on the accounts given in the magnificent History, which Thucydides himself called a 'timeless gift" for the forthcoming generations (ktema es aiei). The author examines focal points from Thucydides' description of battles, the comments and feelings expressed and the outcome and sees Thucydides under the prism of the modern war correspondent, who at the same time, expresses ideas of a thinking man, as he meticulously explains and sets out the facts leading to a major military event and how these things may some time happen again in the future, based always in the experience of the past. As such, the History of the Peloponnesian War, already in parallel with many modern military confrontations, remains a timeless guide for future reference to all those who "would like to see deep into the truth of the events that happened in the past and those that will happen in the future"...

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Iacovos Kareklas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498599597

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Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory by Iacovos Kareklas Pdf

Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory demonstrates that in classical times, especially in the era of the Peloponnesian War, international law and strategy existed in an advanced form among the city-states of ancient Greece. It shows how the work of Thucydides and classical Greek international law and politics have influenced aspects of modern international law and international politics. Iacovos Kareklas extensively analyzes Thucydidean political realism and indicates how it differs from modern realist and neo-realist theories of politics and presents that the “just war” theory of Thucydides’s time formed the legal and political basis of contemporary kinds of military intervention. Further, interstate treaties as listed in the work of Thucydides are categorized, interpreted, and commented upon. The military strategy of classical Greece and the role of religion in foreign policy decision making are also emphasized.

Author : Jonathan J. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428439

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Thucydides and Internal War by Jonathan J. Price Pdf

In this 2001 book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states. This diagnostic method, in contrast to all other approaches in antiquity, allows an observer to identify stasis even when the combatants do not or cannot openly acknowledge the nature of their conflict. The words and actions which Thucydides chooses for his narrative meet his criteria for stasis: the speeches in the History represent the breakdown of language and communication characteristic of internal conflict, and the zeal for victory led to acts of unusual brutality and cruelty, and overall disregard for genuinely Hellenic customs, codes of morality and civic loyalty. Viewing the Peloponnesian War as a destructive internal war had profound consequences for Thucydides' historical vision.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Greece
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004524976

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Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465581570

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Jean Ducat,Thomas J. Figueira
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501719745

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The Mind of Thucydides by Jacqueline de Romilly Pdf

First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.

Author : Benjamin Earley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350123724

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The Thucydidean Turn by Benjamin Earley Pdf

The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the insights that it could offer into contemporary politics, and that it was also used as part of the justification for the academic and cultural relevance of Classics at this time of great political upheaval. Academic classicists and classically trained commentators were instrumental in this 'turn' in academic focus onto Thucydides' contemporary relevance. Among the former were several prominent figures, such as Francis Cornford, Gilbert Murray, and Enoch Powell, who attempted to find in Thucydides a dark depiction of human nature and the passions that drove politics to justify his contemporary relevance. The latter included International Relations scholars and journalists such as Alfred Zimmern, Albert Toynbee, and George Abbott, who 'turned' to Thucydides in order to better understand contemporary global and European politics. A final chapter demonstrates how this British 'turn' to Thucydides was received and reinterpreted in America on the eve of the Second World War.

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 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).

Author : Thucydides,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9780192821911

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The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Pdf

Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War combines brilliant narrative and penetrating analysis; his writing has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This masterly new translation is the most comprehensive single-volume edition currently available.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCSC:32106012028814

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History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Georg Rechenauer,Vassiliki Pothou
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9783899716139

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Thucydides, a Violent Teacher? by Georg Rechenauer,Vassiliki Pothou Pdf

The work of Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War has not only decisively influenced our notion of history up until the present day; the complexity of his account also constitutes a particular challenge to philological and historical interpretations alike. Besides focusing on the political and military aspects, by virtue of its unpretentious, downright scientific perspective on historical events and their driving forces, this work set standards that have hardly been surpassed since. In the light of the remarkable sobriety with which Thucydides presents historical reality as a natural realm of existence beyond all theological, ethical or ideological embellishments, the history of thought and the hermeneutical implications behind this model of history are equally fascinating. This volume endeavours to explore the nature of the relation between historical reality and literary portrayal in Thucydides' historical work. New insights are provided from different perspectives on the question of how the contemporary 5th-century and the present-day reader is directed by the author as a violent teacher.

Author : Athanassios Platias,Constantinos Koliopoulos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197548066

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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 : George Cawkwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.