The Landmark Thucydides

The Landmark Thucydides
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2008-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1416590870

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Thucydides

Thucydides
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 761
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521847745

A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.

On Justice, Power & Human Nature

On Justice, Power & Human Nature
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780872201699

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.

The Structure of Thucydides' History

The Structure of Thucydides' History
Author: Hunter R. Rawlings III
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400856574

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.

Song of Wrath

Song of Wrath
Author: J. E. Lendon
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465015069

Offers a thrilling account of the first stage of the Peloponnesian War, also known as the Ten Years' War, between the city-states of Athens and Sparta, detailing the pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids and deeds of cruelty—along with courageous acts of mercy, charity and resistance.

Thucydides Book 1

Thucydides Book 1
Author: H. Don Cameron
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780472068470

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

Lysistrata and Other Plays

Lysistrata and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2003-01-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0141907010

The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein

Thucydides

Thucydides
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801467241

Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.