The Great War Between Athens and Sparta
Author | : Bernard William Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bernard William Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2006-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812969707 |
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 | : Dr. Bernard W. Henderson |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786256657 |
As “a companion to the military history of Thucydides,” this learned and thoughtful treatise by a well-known Oxford tutor is assured of a hearty welcome. For Dr. Henderson, in retelling the story of the most famous of all wars, gives the essence of many commentaries on Thucydides, with numerous maps and plans, and also cites recent parallels to the old campaigns. Thucydides is so modern in his outlook that this method of treatment is not merely permissible but entirely appropriate. Dr. Henderson has a vivacious style and enters heartily into the spirit of the many dramatic episodes, such as Cleon’s victory at Sphacteria, or the desecrating of the “Herniae” on the very eve of the sailing of the expedition to Syracuse, or the condemnation of the Athenian generals after their last great sea-victory at Arginusae. Even those who think that they know their Thucydides well may learn a good deal from the book. And the implied lesson of the crimes and follies that an uncontrolled democracy can commit—comes out stronger than ever.—The Spectator Archive
Author | : Bernard William Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2008-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226801055 |
"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
Author | : Bernard William Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780405047756 |
Author | : Loren J. Samons II |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2007-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139826697 |
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.
Author | : Jennifer Tolbert Roberts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199996644 |
A major new history of the violent, protracted conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta.
Author | : Bernard William Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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.