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Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1989-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521339292 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1891 |
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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.
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146558157X |
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
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.
Author | : Athanasios G. Platias |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190696389 |
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 | : 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.
Author | : Marshall Sahlins |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2004-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226734005 |
Author | : Graham Allison |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0544935330 |
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