Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1416590870
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0801467217
The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : History
ISBN :
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801467284
A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the four-volume set in The New Yorker, George Steiner wrote, "The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid. . . . Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers." All four volumes are also sold separately as both print books and ebooks.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8027244595
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.
Author :
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444315684
This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumentalconflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, andexamines the realities of the war and its effects on the averageAthenian. A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta by an established scholar Offers an original interpretation of how and why the warbegan Weaves in the contemporary evidence of Aristophanes in orderto give readers a new sense of how the war affected theindividual Discusses the practicalities and realities of the war Examines the blossoming of culture and intellectualachievement in Athens despite the war Challenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of thewar
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0801467268
"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 B.C. Richly documented, precise in detail, it is also extremely well-written, linking it to a tradition of historical narrative that has become rare in our time." ― Virginia Quarterly Review In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the Athenian democracy as it faced its most serious challenge. At the same time, Kagan assesses Thucydides' interpretation of the reasons for Athens’ defeat and the destruction of the Athenian Empire.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521847745
A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 13,68 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 : Thucydides
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Greece
ISBN :
