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Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146558157X
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1965 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467217
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416590870
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Landmark Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The History of the Peloponnesian" War (Greek: Ἱστορίαι, "Histories") is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also served as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books."
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203945
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an English translation of the Greek text which provides an account of the people and events involved in the long, fifth-century conflict between Athens and Sparta, and includes notes, a glossary, and other resources.
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467284
Total Pages : 1710 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book New History of the Peloponnesian War written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774378526
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the 431-404 BC war between Sparta and Athens. It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war.
Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588364909
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book A War Like No Other written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 416 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.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226801055
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05-23 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."—Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444315684
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)
Download or read book A New History of the Peloponnesian War written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumentalconflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, andexamines the realities of the war and its effects on the averageAthenian. A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta by an established scholar Offers an original interpretation of how and why the warbegan Weaves in the contemporary evidence of Aristophanes in orderto give readers a new sense of how the war affected theindividual Discusses the practicalities and realities of the war Examines the blossoming of culture and intellectualachievement in Athens despite the war Challenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of thewar
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War (Complete Edition) written by Thucydides and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.
Author : Athanasios G. Platias
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190696389
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Thucydides on Strategy written by Athanasios G. Platias and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathryn Gin Lum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674275799
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Heathen written by Kathryn Gin Lum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written by an American missionary in 1971. In a sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Purported heathens have also contributed to the ongoing significance of the concept, promoting solidarity through their opposition to white American Christianity. Gin Lum looks to figures like Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo and Ihanktonwan Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá, who proudly claimed the label of “heathen” for themselves. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521847745
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
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.
Author : Kautilya
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750110
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The ARTHASHASTRA written by Kautilya and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary detailed manual on statecraft and the science of living by one of classical India's greatest minds; Kautilya; also known as Chanakya and Vishnugupta; wrote the Arthashastra not later than 150 AD though the date has not been conclusively established. Legend has it that he was either a Brahmin from Kerala or from north India; however; it is certain that Kautilya was the man who destroyed the Nanda dynasty and installed Chandragupta Maurya as the King of Magadha. A master strategist who was well-versed in the Vedas and adept at creating intrigues and devising political stratagems; Kautilya's genius is reflected in his Arthashastra which is the most comprehensive treatise of statecraft of classical times. The text contains fifteen books which cover numerous topics viz.; the King; a complete code of law; foreign policy; secret and occult practices and so on. The Arthashastra is written mainly in prose but also incorporates 380 shlokas. Artha; literally wealth; is one of four supreme aims prescribed by Hindu tradition. However; it has a much wider significance and the material well-being of individuals is just a part of it. In accordance with this; Kautilya's Arthashastra maintains that the state or government of a country has a vital role to play in maintaining the material status of both the nation and its people. Therefore; a significant part of the Arthashastra has to do with the science of economics. When it deals with the science of politics; the Arthashastra describes in detail the art of government in its widest sense—the maintenance of law and order as also of an efficient administrative machinery.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
