The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature

Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides, Paul Woodruff (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2021 | Second Edition, Expanded and Revised
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64792-032-6 (ISBN)

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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).

Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at The University of Texas at Austin. A veteran of the American War in Vietnam, he has also translated works by Plato, Sophocles, and Euripides and written about the ethics of war.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	4 maps (one 2-page spread); grayscale
Verlagsort	Cambridge, MA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-64792-032-9 / 1647920329
ISBN-13	978-1-64792-032-6 / 9781647920326
Zustand	Neuware