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Books on: Thucydides

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Thucydides and Internal War

Book by Jonathan J. Price; Cambridge University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Moral And Ethical Aspects--Sources, Thucydides--History Of The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides--Views On War

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book explains in detail Thucydides' abstract model of internal war, and then shows how, by the terms of the model itself, Thucydides perceived and narrated the Peloponnesian War not as a conventional war but as an internal conflict. Viewing the great war as a destructive internal conflict had ...
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This book explains in detail Thucydides' abstract model of internal war, and then shows how, by the terms of the model itself, Thucydides perceived and narrated the Peloponnesian War not as a conventional war but as an internal conflict. Viewing the great war as a destructive internal conflict had profound consequences for Thucydides' understanding of this particular war and all wars in general, and of Greece as a whole.
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Thucydides and the History of His Age - Vol. 1

Book by G. B. Grundy; Basil Blackwell, 1948

Subjects:

Greece--Economic Conditions, Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C, Military Art And Science--History, Thucydides

Collections: History, Entire Library

THUCYDIDES AND THE HISTORY OF HIS AGE THUCYDIDES AND THE HISTORY OF HIS AGE BY G. B. GRUNDY...formed this idea of composing a historical edition of Thucydides, I had no intention of presenting Greek history under...
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Thucydides on War and National Character

Book by Robert D. Luginbill; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Influence, National Characteristics, Greek, Plague--Greece--Athens--History, Thucydides--History Of The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides--Views On War

Collections: History, Entire Library

Thucydides on War and National Character HISTORY AND WARFARE Arther Ferrill, Series Editor THUCYDIDES ON WAR AND NATIONAL CHARACTER Robert D. Luginbill...CLASSICS OF ANCIENT CHINA Ralph D. Sawyer, translator Thucydides on War and National Character Robert D. Luginbill...
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Thucydides and the History of His Age

Book by G. B. Grundy; John Murray, 1911

Subjects:

Greece--Economic Conditions, Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C, Military Art And Science--History, Thucydides

Collections: History, Entire Library

THUCYDIDES AND THE HISTORY OF HIS AGE THUCYDIDES AND THE HISTORY OF HIS AGE By G. B. D. LITT. GRUNDY...I formed this idea of composing a historical edition of Thucydides, I had no intention of presenting Greek history under this...
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Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation

Book by Tim Rood; Clarendon Press, 1998

Subjects:

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C, Thucydides--Criticism And Interpretation, Thucydides--History Of The Peloponnesian War--Criticism, Textual

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book analyzes the narrative technique of Thucydides, relating his shifting uses of various techniques to his explanatory aims, and showing how he narrates the progression of one war and at the same time exposes various truths about the human condition.

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Journal Articles on: Thucydides

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Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides

Journal article by Emil A. Kleinhaus; Humanitas, Vol. 14, 2001

Subjects:

History--Philosophy, Strauss, Leo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Thucydides--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides. by Emil A. Kleinhaus Having...was effected by Socrates" occurred, Thucydides occupies no obvious place in Leo Strausss...made three substantial statements about Thucydides. The first statement, a published lecture...
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"Courage in the Face of Reality": Nietzsche's Admiration for Thucydides *

Journal article by John Zumbrunnen; Polity, Vol. 35, 2002

Subjects:

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political science--Philosophy, Thucydides--Influence

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...reality": Nietzsches admiration for Thucydides *. by John Zumbrunnen...distinguishes such natures as Thucydides and Plato: Plato is a coward in the...consequently he flees into the ideal; Thucydides has himself under control--consequently...
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Thucydides' Realistic Critique of Realism

Journal article by Peter J. Ahrensdorf; Polity, Vol. 30, 1997

Subjects:

Federal government--Foreign relations, International cooperation--Evaluation, International relations--Evaluation, Realism--Analysis, Thucydides--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Thucydides realistic critique of realism by Peter J. Ahrensdorf For the last half century foreign...of its prestige has rested on its adherents ability to trace their intellectual pedigree back to Thucydides. Read carefully, however, Thucydides is a theoretical realist who provides a sharp critique of political realism. He does support twentieth-century...
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How International Relations Theorists Can Benefit by Reading Thucydides

Journal article by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz; The Monist, Vol. 89, 2006

Subjects:

Authors, Greek--Works, Greek writers--Works, International relations--Management, Realism (International relations)--Criticism and interpretation, Thucydides--Works

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Relations Theorists Can Benefit by Reading Thucydides. by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz...realism in international relations, Thucydides was a historian and an original political...431 B.C. between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides masterpiece, the History of the Peloponnesian...
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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa

Journal article by Thomas Figueira; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006

Subjects:

Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History As Culture and Vice Versa (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture...Thomas Figueira Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture...blighted prospects for democratization. Thucydides treatment of the war is an iconic...

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Magazine Articles on: Thucydides

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Cracking the Thucydides Code

Magazine article by Michael W. Jackson; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Winter 2007

Subjects:

Historical works--Criticism and interpretation, History of the Peloponnesian War (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC, Thucydides--Criticism and interpretation, Thucydides--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Cracking the Thucydides Code. by Michael W. Jackson...wish to deny their responsibility. Thucydides knew all of this and passed the word...that sheds light on our wars, too. As Thucydides tells us how men acted under pressure...
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The War to Begin All Wars

Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003

Subjects:

Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--Analysis, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--History, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--Social aspects, Thucydides--Works, War--Analysis, War--History, War--Public opinion, War--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...ty-states--"was recorded by the great historian Thucydides and that is the most interesting thing about it" (emphasis added). So without Thucydides Peloponnesian War, was the real Peloponnesian...that great conflict was the fact that Thucydides wrote about it. Brilliant, of course...
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Art Imitates War

Magazine article by Austin Bay; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006

Subjects:

Art and history--Analysis, Art and history--Portrayals, Poets--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...reactions--when experience trumps sensation. Thucydides denounced "prose chroniclers, who are...possible.
Thucydides wrote that his History of the Peloponnesian...its themes, but the best of it shares Thucydides commitment to permanence...
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Yale Strikes Gold

Magazine article by Jeffrey Hart; National Review, Vol. 41, June 2, 1989

Subjects:

Deans (Education)--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Deans (in schools)--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Kagan, Donald--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Yale University--Officials and employees

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Sparta, shedding fascinating new light on Thucydides classic text, which has been carefully...pioneering use of comparative material. Thucydides is at the center of Western culture, Thucydides and Athens. In his history we see crystallized...
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The Journalism of Warfare

Magazine article by Keith Windschuttle; New Criterion, Vol. 23, June 2005

Subjects:

Fisk, Robert--Evaluation, Fisk, Robert--Political aspects, Fisk, Robert--Works, Terrorists--Portrayals

Collections: Entire Library

...history. The first genuine historian was Thucydides, the Athenian who wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War around 4-20 BC. Thucydides did a remarkable thing. He set out to...victories but of its mistakes and disasters. Thucydides also distanced himself from his own...

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Newspaper Articles on: Thucydides

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GREATEST of GREEK WARS; SUPPLEMENTING THUCYDIDES' HISTORY OF CONFLICT

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 3, 2003

Subjects:

Kagan, Donald, Thucydides

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...GREATEST of GREEK WARS; SUPPLEMENTING THUCYDIDES HISTORY OF CONFLICT. Byline: Mackubin...can be said about the Greek historian Thucydides and the study of international relations...international relations know anything that Thucydides and his fifth-century B.C. compatriots...
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Walkout Is Unpatriotic; "To a Woman Not to Show More Weakness Than Is Natural to Her Sex Is Great Glory." - Thucydides

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 8, 2004

Subjects:

Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal-

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Walkout Is Unpatriotic; "To a Woman Not to Show More Weakness Than Is Natural to Her Sex Is Great Glory." - Thucydides. THE Filipino people, with more than half of the near 85 million population either poor, or underage, or unschooled, or unemployed...
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The Voices Behind Humanity; No Lack of Action:a Scene from Theblockbuster ,Based on Herodotus's Great Account of the Persian Wars

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 3, 2007

Subjects:

Historians

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Romances and Inquiries fromHerodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow...stuck intothe great Greeks Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, and then moving briskly...political debate ever since. So, too, have Thucydidess interest inthe conflict between moderation...
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What a War 2400 Years Old Can Teach Us in 2005

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 30, 2005

Subjects:

Coalition Occupation of Iraq, 2003---Study and teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...without at least brushing up on their Thucydides first. And even then, why should we...Baghdad. Still, weve been here before. Thucydides isnt exactly uncharted territory, as...to modern audiences amount mostly to Thucydides-lite, Mr. Hansons approach is more intimate...
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SEVEN DAYS WITH SAM MANN; Our Queen of the Social Scene on the Week Ahead

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 10, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...one-off performance of The War That Still Goes On at the Novello Theatre. John Barton directs his adaptation of texts from Thucydides and Plato. It is followed by a debate chaired by Jon Snow. Visit www.rsc.org.uk monday SUPER NOVA Sienna Miller (right), Heath...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Thucydides

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Thucydides

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

THUCYDIDES thoosid idez, c.460 c.400 b.c., Greek historian of...most splendid of these is Pericles funeral oration. Thucydides account of the plague, through which he lived, displays...1970); A. W. Gomme et al., A Historical Commentary on Thucydides (5 vol., 1945 78). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Stesimbrotus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stes imbro t s, fl. 5th cent. b.c., Greek biographer, b. Thasos. He wrote biographical studies of Pericles, Themistocles, and Thucydides, son of Melesias. In addition he wrote books on Homer and on Samothracian religious mysteries. ____________________ The...
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Valla, Lorenzo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...c.1407 57, Italian humanist. Valla knew Greek and Latin well and was chosen by Pope Nicholas V to translate Herodotus and Thucydides into Latin. From his earliest works, he was an ardent spokesman for the new humanist learning that sought to reform language...
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...celebrated of ancient critics. Among his extant works are On the Arrangement of Words, On Imitation, On the Early Orators, On Thucydides, and On the Eloquence of Demosthenes. The Art of Rhetoric attributed to him is probably of later date. Of his longest work...
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Balance of Power

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the part of individual national governments to change alliances as the situation demands in order to maintain the balance. Thucydides description of Greece in the 5th cent. b.c. and Guicciardinis description of 15th-century Italy are early illustrations. Its...

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