Feb 03, 20 fourth and fifth years of the war revolt of mitylene. Thucydides, an athenian, wrote the history of the war is the first pronouncement of the peloponnesian war 1. This term is a later addition and is used in modern translations. Thucydides, an athenian, wrote the history of the war between the peloponnesians and the athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. It is also very long and hard to digest without proper.
Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between athens and sparta a possession for all time, and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the western historical tradition. List of books and articles about thucydides online. Such was the funeral made this winter, which ending, ended the first year of this war. The conflict, fought between the athenianled delian league and the spartanled peloponnesian league, signaled the end of athenian dominance in greece at the close of the fifth. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war the landmark thucydides the language of angels. The landmark thucydides, a comprehensive guide to the. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war book book details. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war ebook.
The webs source of information for ancient history. This is obviously no elementary work, but the editor has included many features to help make reading this book easier, such as explanatory headers, footnotes, maps, and margin summaries for every paragraph. Strassler 597 appendix f land warfare in thucydides victor davis hanson, california state university at fresno 603 appendix g trireme warfare in thucydides nicolle hirschfeld, university of texas at austin 608 appendix h dialects and ethnic groups in thucydides william f. With an english translation by charles forster smith. The state of greece from the earliest times to the. The landmark thucydides a comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war.
The dialectical logic of thucydides melian dialogue by hayward r. He thus had opportunity to acquaint himself with both the. Homer in the british museum herodotus at the austrian parliament. Chapter i the state of greece from the earliest times to the commencement of the peloponnesian war. Thucydides, the peloponnesian war, book 1, chapter 1. Thucydides history of the peloponnesian war 8 vols. Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. He referred to it simply as a writing, probably because the greek word for inquiry,historia, which herodotus had used, had not yet become a common term for an inquiry into or a narration of some part of the human past. Thucydides books list of books by author thucydides. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war new york.
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A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war discussion and chapter questions and find the landmark thucydides. It is also meant to be used with the abridged edition of liddell and scotts greekenglish lexicon, which reliably contains nearly all of the vocabulary of book i of thucydides. Thucydides, history of the peloponnesian war, the second. A newly revised edition of the richard crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices, and enclyclopedic index. War thucydides, an athenian, wrote the history of the war between the peloponnesians and the athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation. Based on the venerable richard crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers, the landmark thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of. The landmark thucydides a comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war year. Thucydides history of the peloponnesian war translated by richard crawley the first book chapter i. Thucydides is one of the first western historians to employ a strict standard of chronology, recording events by year, with each year consisting of the summer campaign season and a less active winter.
The plague devastates athens but does not affect peloponnesus. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, the peloponnesian war is a mine of military, moral, political, and. Thucydides, the eternal manual of statesmen, should. Thucydides is considered to be one of the great fathers of western history, thus making his methodology the subject of much analysis in area of historiography. He views this as both a necessity for the government to successfully function, but at the same time he sees it as. Cornelius castoriadis, the greek polis and the creation of democracy in the castoriadis reader. He referred to it simply as a writing, probably because the greek word for inquiry,historia, which herodotus had used, had not yet become a common term for an inquiry into or a narration of some part of the human past in the following centuries, greek, roman, and. The state of greece from the earliest times to the commencement of the peloponnesian war. Thucydides did not give his work a title or call it a history. Thus the winter ended, and with it ended the fifth year of this war, of which thucydides was the historian.
The killing of all the males and selling of women and children into slavery is not to be celebrated as a demonstration of power, but mourned for. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position. Thucydides views human nature as the ultimate tool used by the famous speakers of ancient greece in order to persuade the weaker minds of the average citizen of athens into believing that what they are saying is best for everybody. Thucydides text is generally regarded as finely crafted, highly focused, and consistently ontopic.
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The substance of this paper was first given in 1979 as a talk at the university of maryland, college park. It was written by thucydides, an athenian general who served in the war. Thucydides the landmark thucydides balder exlibris. Written by one of the fathers of western history, thucydides history of the peloponnesian war is a landmark literary and scholarly achievement documenting the pivot point in the golden age of athenian democracy.
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