Thucydides Book 1

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

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

The History of the Peloponnesian War

The History of the Peloponnesian War
Title The History of the Peloponnesian War PDF eBook
Author Thucydides
Publisher Library of Alexandria
Pages 796
Release 2020-09-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 146558157X

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On Justice, Power & Human Nature

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

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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.

A Commentary on Thucydides

A Commentary on Thucydides
Title A Commentary on Thucydides PDF eBook
Author Simon Hornblower
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9780199594634

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The Humanity of Thucydides

The Humanity of Thucydides
Title The Humanity of Thucydides PDF eBook
Author Clifford Orwin
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 249
Release 2020-10-06
Genre History
ISBN 0691219400

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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. In the first thorough exploration of the relation between these two traits, Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydides' humanity is not a reflection of the author's temperament but an aspect of his thought, above all of his articulation of the central problem of political life, the tension between right and compulsion. This book provides the most complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice, as well as the most extensive interpretations yet of the speeches in which it comes to light. Thucydides does not merely display the weakness of justice in the world, but joins his characters in exploring the implications of this weakness for our understanding of what justice is. Orwin pursues this question through Thucydides' work and relates it to the historian's other leading concerns, such as the contrast between the Athenian way and the Spartan way, the role of piety in political life, the interaction of foreign and domestic politics, and the role of statesmanship in a world dominated by frenzies of hope, fear, and indignation. Above all, Orwin demonstrates the richness, complexity, and daring of Thucydides' articulation of these issues.

The Mind of Thucydides

The Mind of Thucydides
Title The Mind of Thucydides PDF eBook
Author Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 161
Release 2017-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501719734

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The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of narrative, it proved that a literary approach offered the most productive and nuanced way to study Thucydides. Still in print in the original French, the book has influenced numerous Classicists and historians, and is now available in English for the first time in a careful translation by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. The Cornell edition includes an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten tracing the context of this book’s original publication and its continuing influence on the study of Thucydides. Romilly shows that Thucydides constructs his account of the Peloponnesian War as a profoundly intellectual experience for readers who want to discern the patterns underlying historical events. Employing a commanding logic that exercises total control over the data of history, Thucydides uses rigorous principles of selection, suggestive juxtapositions, and artfully opposed speeches to reveal systematic relationships between plans and outcomes, impose meaning on the smallest events, and insist on the constant battle between intellect and chance. Thucydides’ mind found in unity and coherence its ideal of historical truth.

On Thucydides

On Thucydides
Title On Thucydides PDF eBook
Author Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.)
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 212
Release 1975
Genre History
ISBN 9780520029224

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