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The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature - Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (Hardcover)
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The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature - Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (Hardcover)
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Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a
social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in
human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people
go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the
civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the
council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The
strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his
History . Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand
their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid
stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and
disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides's
History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume
short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded
to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the
entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest
scholarship. The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the
second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human
Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first
published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN
978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).
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