Book Description
Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship
Author : H. Don Cameron
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472068470
Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship
Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Greece
ISBN :
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : 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 : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501719734
The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of narrative, it proved that a literary approach offered the most productive and nuanced way to study Thucydides. Still in print in the original French, the book has influenced numerous Classicists and historians, and is now available in English for the first time in a careful translation by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. The Cornell edition includes an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten tracing the context of this book’s original publication and its continuing influence on the study of Thucydides. Romilly shows that Thucydides constructs his account of the Peloponnesian War as a profoundly intellectual experience for readers who want to discern the patterns underlying historical events. Employing a commanding logic that exercises total control over the data of history, Thucydides uses rigorous principles of selection, suggestive juxtapositions, and artfully opposed speeches to reveal systematic relationships between plans and outcomes, impose meaning on the smallest events, and insist on the constant battle between intellect and chance. Thucydides’ mind found in unity and coherence its ideal of historical truth.
Author : Clifford Orwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0691017263
Examining what seems to be a paradox of ancient Greek character, political scientist Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydides's obvious humanity in the face of his unflinching realism is not a reflection of the Greek's temperament but an aspect of his thought, above all of his articulation of the central problem of political life, the tension between right and compulsion.
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594634
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1416590870
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author : Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520029224
Author : Arnold Wycombe Gomme
Publisher :
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2009
Category : 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.