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Book The fifth book of Thucydides

Download or read book The fifth book of Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Peloponnesian War

Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 5TH BK OF THUCYDIDES

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  • Author : Thucydides
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-26
  • ISBN : 9781362267638
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book 5TH BK OF THUCYDIDES written by Thucydides and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Fifth Book of Thucydides

Download or read book The Fifth Book of Thucydides written by Thucydide and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The fifth book of Thucydides

Download or read book The fifth book of Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thucydides

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  • Author : Thucydides
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-28
  • ISBN : 0521847745
  • Pages : 761 pages

Download or read book Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.

Book Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

Download or read book Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War written by George Cawkwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Thucydides

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  • Author : Donald Kagan
  • Publisher : Viking Adult
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Thucydides written by Donald Kagan and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Thoukudidou Xuggraph  s 5

Download or read book Thoukudidou Xuggraph s 5 written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Think about War

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  • Author : Thucydides
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-05
  • ISBN : 0691190151
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book How to Think about War written by Thucydides and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis. How to Think about War presents the most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new translation by classicist Johanna Hanink, accompanied by an enlightening introduction, informative headnotes, and the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an ideally accessible introduction to Thucydides’s long and challenging History. Thucydides intended his account of the clash between classical Greece’s mightiest powers—Athens and Sparta—to be a “possession for all time.” Today, it remains a foundational work for the study not only of ancient history but also contemporary politics and international relations. How to Think about War features speeches that have earned the History its celebrated status—all of those delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles’s funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless “Melian Dialogue.” Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and imperialism. The first English-language collection of speeches from Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker.

Book Thucydides and the Shaping of History

Download or read book Thucydides and the Shaping of History written by Emily Greenwood and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. There is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History when it was written in the fifth century, and how 'contemporary' is it now? This book combines a close analysis of Thucydides' narrative with a discussion of its intellectual motivation; it examines how the historian attempted to determine the way in which readers would respond to his conception of the events of the Atheno-Peloponnesian War, and to ensure the continuing influence of his ideas.

Book The Fifth Book of Thucydides

Download or read book The Fifth Book of Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Justice  Power   Human Nature

Download or read book On Justice Power Human Nature written by Thucydides and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A War Like No Other

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  • Author : Victor Davis Hanson
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Release : 2006-09-12
  • ISBN : 0812969707
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book A War Like No Other written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato. Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

Book Thucydides

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  • Author : Perez Zagorin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780691123516
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Thucydides written by Perez Zagorin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin explains, is far more than a mere chronicle of the conflict between Athens and Sparta, the two superpowers of Greece in the fifth century BCE. It is also a remarkable story of politics, decision-making, the uses of power, and the human and communal experience of war. Zagorin maintains that the work remains of permanent interest because of the exceptional intellect that Thucydides brought to the writing of history, and to the originality, penetration, and the breadth and intensity of vision that inform his narrative. The first half of Zagorin's book discusses the intellectual and historical background to Thucydides' work and its method, structure, and view of the causes of the war. The following chapters deal with Thucydides' portrayal of the Athenian leader Pericles and his account of some of the main episodes of the war, such as the revolution in Corcyra and the Athenian invasion of Sicily. The book concludes with an insightful discussion of Thucydides as a thinker and philosophic historian. Designed to introduce both students and general readers to a work that is an essential part of a liberal education, this book seeks to encourage readers to explore Thucydides--one of the world's greatest historians--for themselves.

Book Thucydides

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  • Author : Walter Robert Connor
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013-09-20
  • ISBN : 1400820049
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Thucydides written by Walter Robert Connor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Fifth Book of Thucydides

Download or read book The Fifth Book of Thucydides written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fifth Book of Thucydides: Edited With Notes VI769 cents9aawot kabova'al. Epnaov 7771/ wok) [cat 'rov I A Tetxlopa'roc amaico/ievov eryxaraabfig, awoken-mv 9 I y I a I Q 8\ 9 A 2 av'ro Spongi m t 69 t77i! Wokw. Ob e Adm/amt. A A 02' Te d7ro' v veum e'kevrec 7771/ Topai lo I mp! Mil 6 e'7rca'7r0/ieuos av'rofioel lcd 70 A A I I Brypmue'vov 'rov wakawv Tetxovs Evveo'wea'wv. [cal A rods uev dwexrewav 7am Hekowovvnat'wu Kat Tape) A a! Vaiwv e'u xepo't', Toys 3% {wuras' embov Ical. V I I 3 haawem'sav 'rov apxom'a. Bpa About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."