Thucydides On The Outbreak Of War

Author : S. N. Jaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198716280

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Thucydides on the Outbreak of War by S. N. Jaffe Pdf

The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnesian War somehow necessary, inevitable, or compulsory. In this new political psychological study of Thucydides' first book, S.N. Jaffe shows how the History's account of the outbreak of the war ultimately points toward the opposing characters of the Athenian and Spartan regimes, disclosing a Thucydidean preoccupation with the interplay between nature and convention. Jaffe explores how the character of the contest between Athens and Sparta, or how the outbreak of a particular war, can reveal Thucydides' account of the recurring human causes of war and peace. The political thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of particular events and more universal themes.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467219

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:819683566

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Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007115068

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The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Pdf

The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Great Minds
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 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
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781465581570

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801426936

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Pdf

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Ilias Kouskouvelis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498567404

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Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making by Ilias Kouskouvelis Pdf

This book uncovers Thucydides’ decision making schemata and his thinking on how people decide, particularly when in power or war. Based on these ideas, the author interprets the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war and the Sicilian expedition, and shows that they were a result of decision making and, thus, not inevitable.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801499852

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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Pdf

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385423755

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On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan Pdf

A brilliant and vitally important history of why states go to war, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Peloponnesian War. War has been a fact of life for centuries. By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous World Wars of the twentieth century, renowned historian Donald Kagan reveals new and surprising insights into the nature of war and peace. Vivid, incisive, and accessible, Kagan's powerful narrative warns against complacency and urgently reminds us of the importance of preparedness in times of peace.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467288

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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 : H. Don Cameron
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472068474

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Thucydides Book 1 by H. Don Cameron Pdf

Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship

Author : Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190647742

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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides by Ryan Balot,Sarah Forsdyke,Edith Foster Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same time providing a comprehensive introduction to the author's ideas. The volume is organized into four sections of papers: History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception. It therefore bridges traditionally divided disciplines. The authors engaged to write the forty chapters for this volume include both well-known scholars and less well-known innovators, who bring fresh ideas and new points of view. Articles avoid technical jargon and long footnotes, and are written in an accessible style. Finally, the volume includes a thorough introduction prefacing each paper, as well as several maps and an up-to-date bibliography that will enable further study. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides offers a comprehensive introduction to a thinker and writer whose simultaneous depth and innovativeness have been the focus of intense literary and philosophical study since ancient times.