Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War [ebook]
Author: Martha Caroline Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780511638282
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The Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-03-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521339292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1998-03-13
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780872203945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War
Author: George Cawkwell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415164306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War
Author: Martha Caroline Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0521765935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Thucydides
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 761
ISBN-13: 0521847745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.
The Peloponnesian War
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-04-27
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0142004375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world’s most respected classical, political, and military historians, here presents a new account of this vicious war of Greek against Greek, Athenian against Spartan. The Peloponnesian War is a magisterial work of history written for general readers, offering a fresh examination of a pivotal moment in Western civilization. With a lively, readable narrative that conveys a richly detailed portrait of a vanished world while honoring its timeless relevance, The Peloponnesian War is a chronicle of the rise and fall of a great empire and of a dark time whose lessons still resonate today.
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War
Author: Martha Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781107415409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
