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Thucydides on the outbreak of war : character and contest / S.N. Jaffe.
LIBRA DF229 .J34 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaffe, Seth N., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
- Thucydides.
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides).
- Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 236 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnesian War somehow necessary, inevitable, or compulsory. In this new political psychological study of Thucydides' first book, S.N. Jaffe shows how the 'History's' account of the outbreak of the war ultimately points toward the opposing characters of the Athenian and Spartan regimes, disclosing a Thucydidean preoccupation with the interplay between nature and convention. Jaffe explores how the character of the contest between Athens and Sparta, or how the outbreak of a particular war, can reveal Thucydides' account of the recurring human causes of war and peace. The political thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of particular events and more universal themes.
- Contents:
- 1 The Manifest Quarrels 20
- The First Quarrel 22
- The Debate at Athens 30
- The Speech of the Corcyraeans at Athens 33
- The Speech of the Corinthians at Athens 41
- The Athenian Decision 51
- The Battle of Sybota 53
- The Second Quarrel 56
- 2 The Spartan Congress 59
- The Speech of the Corinthians: Character and Advantage 62
- Hellenic Enslavement 63
- Athens and Sparta 66
- The Spartan Manner 73
- Exhortation to Fight 75
- The Speech of the Athenians: Necessity as Advantage 76
- The Defense of Hellenic Freedom 81
- Founding the Empire 86
- Ruling Others 97
- Arbitration and Spartan Power 98
- The Speech of Archidamus: Education, the Spartan Way 101
- What Will Be Sparta's War? 103
- The Ways of Sparta 106
- The Ancestral and the Lawful 109
- The Speech of Sthenelaidas 113
- The War Vote 115
- 3 The Athenian Logic of the Truest προφασις 118
- The Pentecontaetia 120
- Athenian Hegemony 121
- Themistocles and the Vision of Empire 124
- Pausanias and the Ambition for Tyranny 125
- Hegemony to Empire 127
- The Athenian Subjection of the Allies 128
- The Spartans and their Helots 129
- Athens, Sparta, and the Battle of Tanagra 132
- The Thirty Years' Peace and the Revolt of Samos 133
- The Conclusion of the Pentecontaetia 135
- The Archaeology 139
- Ancient Times 142
- The Trojan War 151
- Motion and Rest after Troy 153
- Athens and Sparta 155
- 4 Sparta's Greatest προφασις for War 160
- The Corinthian Speech to the Allies 160
- The Vote of the Spartan Alliance 164
- The Honor of the Gods 164
- The Cylonian Conspiracy and the Curse of the Goddess 167
- The Curse of Tainaros 170
- Spartan Trust and the Treachery of Pausanias 172
- Athenian Mistrust and the Loyalty of Themistocles 175
- The Spartan Logic of the Greatest προφασις 177
- Pericles on the Necessity of War 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-224) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0198716281
- 9780198716280
- OCLC:
- 949911942
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