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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 : George Cawkwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134708432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
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.
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 : 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 : 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 : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339292
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (392 download)
Download or read book The Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : Martha Caroline Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765935
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War written by Martha Caroline Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city exacerbated the Athenians' civil war. Providing a thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides' neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides praises political compromise centered around the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial project itself.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : 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 : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes their king.
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 : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Thucydides' Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139452584
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Past as Prologue written by Williamson Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's military of rapid technological and strategic change, obtaining a complete understanding of the present, let alone the past, is a formidable challenge. Yet the very high rate of change today makes study of the past more important than ever before. The Past as Prologue, first published in 2006, explores the usefulness of the study of history for contemporary military strategists. It illustrates the great importance of military history while simultaneously revealing the challenges of applying the past to the present. Essays from authors of diverse backgrounds - British and American, civilian and military - come together to present an overwhelming argument for the necessity of the study of the past by today's military leaders in spite of these challenges. The essays of Part I examine the relationship between history and the military profession. Those in Part II explore specific historical cases that show the repetitiveness of certain military problems.
Author : Robert B. Strassler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106592
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Landmark Thucydides written by Robert B. Strassler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possession for all time,” and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom. However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. Written centuries before the rise of modern historiography, Thucydides' narrative is not continuous or linear. His authoritative chronicle of what he considered the greatest war of all time is rigorous and meticulous, yet omits the many aids to comprehension modern readers take for granted—such as brief biographies of the story's main characters, maps and other visual enhancements, and background on the military, cultural, and political traditions of ancient Greece. Robert Strassler's new edition amends these omissions, and not only provides a new coherence to the narrative overall but effectively reconstructs the lost cultural context that Thucydides shared with his original audience. Based on the venerable Richard Crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers, The Landmark Thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety and depth, and numerous other useful features. Readers will find that with this edition they can dip into the text at any point and be immediately oriented with regard to the geography, season, date, and stage of the conflict. In any list of the Great Books of Western Civilization, The Peloponnesian War stands near the top. This handsome, elegant, and authoritative new edition will ensure that its greatness is appreciated by future generations.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books I and II written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
