The History of the Peloponnesian War
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Blaise Nagy |
Publisher | : Focus |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
An annotated and illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories with introductory material for all eight books of the Histories, commentary and grammatical notes. This book is a standard text for any college course in reading Thucydides in Greek. It is also suitable for post-intermediate, secondary school students who want to tackle the works of a popular but challenging author.
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416590870 |
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author | : Donald Kagan |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Marshall Sahlins |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2004-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226734005 |
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Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780872201699 |
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.
Author | : Mary Lefkowitz |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1984854313 |
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers “Just the thing to remind us that human history, though lamentably a work in progress, is always something we can understand better.”—Sarah Ruden, translator of The Gospels and author of The Face of Water The historians of ancient Greece were pioneers of a new literary craft; their work stands among the world’s most enduring and important legacies and forms the foundation of a major modern discipline. This highly readable edition includes new and newly revised translations of selections from Herodotus—often called the “father of history”—Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch, the four greatest Greek innovators of historical narrative. Here the reader will find their most important, and most widely taught, passages collected in a single volume. The excerpts chart the landmark events of ancient Greece and provide a comprehensive account of the entire classical Greek age. From the start the Greek historians demonstrated how broad and varied historical writing could be and brought their craft beyond a mere chronicle of past events. This volume explores each author’s interest in religion, leadership, character, and the lessons of war. How, for instance, should readers interpret Herodotus’ inclusion of speeches and dialogues, dreams, and oracles as part of the “factual” record? What did Thucydides understand about human nature that (as he said) stays constant throughout time? How did Plutarch frame historical biography as a means of depicting the moral qualities of great men? Complete with introductions to the works of each historian, footnotes providing context and explaining obscurities, maps, and an appendix on the Greek conduct of war, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and passionate readers of history alike.
Author | : Thucydides, |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2009-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0192821911 |
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War combines brilliant narrative and penetrating analysis; his writing has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This masterly new translation is the most comprehensive single-volume edition currently available.
Author | : Hans-Peter Stahl |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2009-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1910589314 |
Stahl's classic book on Thucydides, here in English for the first time, penetrates as few others to the Greek writer's deepest interests. Stahl reveals Thucydides' work as a study in the fallibility of human projections. Above all, Thucydides is shown as interested in tracking how optimistic plans lead to irremediable suffering in the field of foreign policy. For this new edition, the original has been revised and enlarged by two chapters which reflect the author's subsequent work.
Author | : Richard Crawley |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781017847604 |
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