Pentekontaetia
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Author |
: E. Badian |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801844312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801844317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Plataea to Potidaea by : E. Badian
From the Greek victory over Persian forces on the field of Plataea to the Athenian blockade of the rebel city of Potidaea - key events in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, respectively - the half-century of Greek history known as the Pentecontaetia is an era for which sources are few and interpretation is controversial. Now, eminent historian E. Badian brings together six essays - one new and five revised for this volume - that shed new light on one of the key periods in the history of the ancient world. How was the Persian War finally settled, and what was the nature of the relationship that emerged between the two great powers of the Aegean, Athens and Persia? Is it possible to determine the sequence of events of the half-century between Xerxes' retreat and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War? Should the general picture of Thucydides as the objective and "scientific" historian be revised, at least as far as this period is concerned? In addressing these and other questions, E. Badian provides the penetrating insights and rigorous scholarly argument, to which his readers have become accustomed.
Author |
: Walter Robert Connor |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2013-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400820047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400820049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thucydides by : Walter Robert Connor
This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the reader's role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals Thucydides' use of objectivity not so much as a standard for the proper presentation of his subject matter as a method for communicating with his readers and involving them in the complexity and suffering of the Peloponnesian War. W. Robert Connor shows that as Thucydides' themes and ideas are reintroduced and developed, the initial reactions of the reader are challenged, subverted, and eventually made to contribute to a deeper understanding of the war.
Author |
: Thucydides |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 760 |
Release |
: 2008-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416590873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416590870 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Landmark Thucydides by : Thucydides
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author |
: S. N. Jaffe |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2017-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191025587 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191025585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thucydides on the Outbreak of War by : S. N. Jaffe
The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnesian War somehow necessary, inevitable, or compulsory. In this new political psychological study of Thucydides' first book, S.N. Jaffe shows how the History's account of the outbreak of the war ultimately points toward the opposing characters of the Athenian and Spartan regimes, disclosing a Thucydidean preoccupation with the interplay between nature and convention. Jaffe explores how the character of the contest between Athens and Sparta, or how the outbreak of a particular war, can reveal Thucydides' account of the recurring human causes of war and peace. The political thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of particular events and more universal themes.
Author |
: Thucydides |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1905 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105012084435 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Book 1 by : Thucydides
Author |
: John Van Antwerp Fine |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 738 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674033140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674033146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ancient Greeks by : John Van Antwerp Fine
John Fine offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pitfalls in interpreting ancient accounts.
Author |
: Christina S. Kraus |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2010-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199558681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019955868X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts by : Christina S. Kraus
This collection of studies on ancient poetry and historiography pays tribute to the distinguished classicist Tony Woodman. It focuses on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of the literature on illuminating the historical Roman context, and the historical context to illuminate the literature.
Author |
: Paul Anthony Rahe |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300255751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300255756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sparta's Second Attic War by : Paul Anthony Rahe
In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why open warfare between these two erstwhile allies broke out a second time, after they had negotiated an extended truce. He traces the course of the war that then took place, he examines and assesses the strategy each community pursued and the tactics adopted, and he explains how and why mutual exhaustion forced on these two powers yet another truce doomed to fail. At stake for each of the two peoples caught up in this enduring strategic rivalry, as Rahe shows, was nothing less than the survival of its political regime and of the peculiar way of life to which that regime gave rise.
Author |
: Ryan Balot |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 801 |
Release |
: 2017-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190647742 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190647744 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides by : Ryan Balot
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same time providing a comprehensive introduction to the author's ideas. The volume is organized into four sections of papers: History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception. It therefore bridges traditionally divided disciplines. The authors engaged to write the forty chapters for this volume include both well-known scholars and less well-known innovators, who bring fresh ideas and new points of view. Articles avoid technical jargon and long footnotes, and are written in an accessible style. Finally, the volume includes a thorough introduction prefacing each paper, as well as several maps and an up-to-date bibliography that will enable further study. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides offers a comprehensive introduction to a thinker and writer whose simultaneous depth and innovativeness have been the focus of intense literary and philosophical study since ancient times.
Author |
: TOBIAS. JOHO |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2022-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198812043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198812043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Style and Necessity in Thucydides by : TOBIAS. JOHO
Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal and personalconstructions. These stylistic choices tend to deemphasize human agency: people find themselves in a passive role, exposed to incidents happening to them rather than being actively in charge of events. Thus, the analysis of the abstract style raises the question of necessity in Thucydides.On numerous occasions, Thucydides and his speakers use impersonal and passive language to stress the subjection of human beings to transpersonal forces that manifest themselves in collective passions and an inherent dynamic of events. These factors are constitutive of the human condition and becomea substitute for the notion of divine fatalism prevalent in earlier Greek thought. Yet Thucydidean necessity is not absolute. It stands in the tradition of a type of fatalism that one finds in Homer and Herodotus. In these authors, the gods or fate tend to settle the outcome of the most significantevents, but they leave leeway for the specific way in which these pivotal events come to pass. Thus, the Greeks endorsed a malleable variant of necessity, so that considerable scope for human choice persists within the framework fixed by necessity. Pericles turns out to be Thucydides' prime exampleof an individual who uses the leeway left by necessity for prudent interventions into the course of events.