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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.
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from
Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his
profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do
nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What
justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For
nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and
military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in
Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights
into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and
countries in times of crisis. How to Think about War presents the
most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new
translation by classicist Johanna Hanink, accompanied by an
enlightening introduction, informative headnotes, and the original
Greek on facing pages. The result is an ideally accessible
introduction to Thucydides's long and challenging History.
Thucydides intended his account of the clash between classical
Greece's mightiest powers-Athens and Sparta-to be a "possession for
all time." Today, it remains a foundational work for the study not
only of ancient history but also contemporary politics and
international relations. How to Think about War features speeches
that have earned the History its celebrated status-all of those
delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles's
funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless "Melian Dialogue."
Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the
recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and
imperialism. The first English-language collection of speeches from
Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes
readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker.
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be true to admit even upon an ungrounded hope, and what they wish
not, with a magistral kind of arguing to reject. Thucydides (the
Peloponnesian War Part I), IV:108 Thomas Hobbes Trans. , Sir W.
Molesworth ed. In The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury,
Vol. VIII I have been introduced to clock design very early in my
professional career when I was tapped right out of school to design
and implement the clock generation and distribution of the Alpha
21364 microprocessor. Traditionally, Alpha processors - hibited
highly innovative clocking systems, always worthy of ISSCC/JSSC
publi- tions and for a while Alpha processors were leading the
industry in terms of clock performance. I had huge shoes to ?ll.
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????????????,????? It being the fashion of men, what they wish to
be true to admit even upon an ungrounded hope, and what they wish
not, with a magistral kind of arguing to reject. Thucydides (the
Peloponnesian War Part I), IV:108 Thomas Hobbes Trans. , Sir W.
Molesworth ed. In The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury,
Vol. VIII I have been introduced to clock design very early in my
professional career when I was tapped right out of school to design
and implement the clock generation and distribution of the Alpha
21364 microprocessor. Traditionally, Alpha processors - hibited
highly innovative clocking systems, always worthy of ISSCC/JSSC
publi- tions and for a while Alpha processors were leading the
industry in terms of clock performance. I had huge shoes to ?ll.
Obviously, I was overwhelmed, confused and highly con?dent that I
would drag the entire project down.
The first unabridged translation into American English, and the
first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of
the last half of the twentieth century, Steven Lattimore's
translation sets a new standard for accuracy and reliability. Notes
provide information necessary for a fuller understanding of
problematic passages, explore their implications as well as the
problems they may pose, and shed light on Thucydides as a
distinctive literary artist as well as a source for historians and
political theorists.
Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of
Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between
Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly
sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its
exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments
through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore
increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations
and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many
striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the
author and the text in their proper historical context. The new
translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism,
and the notes and extensive reference material provide students
with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic
background they need to engage with the text on its own terms.
This powerful translation by Thomas Hobbes has long been considered
the truest to the original Greek. Hobbes's eloquent and lucid style
captures Thucydides' use of language in recreating the
Athens-Sparta conflict. It is Thucydides special ability to portray
and enliven that has provided us with the most revealing accounts
of the people and events in that long war: Pericles' funeral
oration, the plague, the civil war in Corcyra, the debate between
Cleon and Diodotus over the fate of Mitylene, the Melian Dialogue,
and above all the ruin of the Sicilian translations that are works
of art in their own right.
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).
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was
born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under
the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the
Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which
he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to
save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells about
this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of
his history of the war that it befell him to be an exile for twenty
years. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was
able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and
returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He had been composing
his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and
disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and
others.
The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace
after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one
account when death came sometime before 396. His history of the
first conflict, 431 421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still
at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict
(415 413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record,
though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict
of 413 404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing
with the year 411. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole
unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight
this history has no superior.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four
volumes.
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was
born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under
the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the
Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which
he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to
save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells about
this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of
his history of the war that it befell him to be an exile for twenty
years. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was
able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and
returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He had been composing
his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and
disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and
others.
The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace
after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one
account when death came sometime before 396. His history of the
first conflict, 431 421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still
at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict
(415 413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record,
though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict
of 413 404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing
with the year 411. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole
unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight
this history has no superior.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four
volumes.
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was
born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under
the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the
Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which
he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to
save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells about
this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of
his history of the war that it befell him to be an exile for twenty
years. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was
able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and
returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He had been composing
his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and
disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and
others.
The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace
after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one
account when death came sometime before 396. His history of the
first conflict, 431 421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still
at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict
(415 413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record,
though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict
of 413 404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing
with the year 411. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole
unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight
this history has no superior.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four
volumes.
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