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The essential Thucydides : on justice, power, and human nature : selections from The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides ; edited and translated by Paul Woodruff.
Van Pelt Library DF229.T55 W66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thucydides, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 242 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, expanded and revised.
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: BOOK 1
- Early History, Method, and the Cause of War
- Thucydides's Preface [1.1]
- The Archaeology [1.2-20]
- On Historical Method [1.20-22]
- Origins of the War
- Thucydides's Explanation for the War [1.23]
- Conflict of Corcyra with Corinth
- Speech of the Corcyreans [1.32-36]
- Speech of the Corinthians [1.37-43]
- Debate at Sparta [1.66-88]
- The Case for Making War on Athens (432 BCE) [1.66-67]
- Speech of the Corinthians [1.68-72]
- Speech of the Athenians [1.73-79]
- Speech of Archidamus [1.80-85]
- Speech of Sthenelaidas [1.86-88]
- The Fifty Years' History [1.96-97]
- Pericles's War Speech [1.140-46]
- BOOK 2
- The First Year of the War
- The Attack on Plataea [2.2-6]
- Preparations: Alliances and Preliminary Speeches [2.7-17]
- Early Operations [2.18-23]
- Pericles's Funeral Oration [2.34-46]
- The Plague: Human Nature in Crisis [2.47-54]
- Military Operations of 430 [2.55-58]
- Pericles's Last Speech [2. 59-64]
- Thucydides's Judgment of Pericles [2.65]
- Further Events of 430/429 [2.66-70]
- The Siege of Plataea [2.71-78]
- Athenian Naval Victories at Naupactus [2.83-92, 103]
- BOOK 3
- Rebellion, Civil War, and Human Nature
- The Revolt of Lesbos (Mytilene 428 BCE) [3.2-19]
- Ambassadors from Mytilene Speak at Olympia [3.8-15]
- The Siege of Mytilene [3.16-19]
- Breakout from Plataea (428/427 BCE) [3.20-24]
- Defeat of Mytilene (427 BCE) [3.25-28]
- The Mytilenean Debate (427 BCE) [3.35-52]
- Speech of Cleon [3.37-41]
- Speech of Diodotus [3.42-51]
- The Fate of Plataea (427 BCE) [3.51-68]
- Speech of the Plataeans [3.53-60]
- Speech of the Thebans [3.61-68]
- Human Nature Adapts to Civil War
- Civil War on Corcyra (427 BCE) [3.70-81]
- Moral Breakdown in Civil War: Human Nature in a Crisis [3.82-84]
- The End of the Civil War (425 BCE) [4.47.3-48]
- BOOK 4
- Both Sides Suffer Defeats
- Defeat of Spartans at Pylos and Other Events of 425/424 BCE [Summary]
- A Speech to Unite the Greeks on Sicily, Summer 424 BCE [4.59-65]
- Brasidas's Campaigns against Athens [Summary]
- Brasidas's Speech at Acanthus (424 BCE) [4.84-86]
- Defeat of Athenians at Delium (424/423 BCE) [4.96]
- Athenian Loss of Amphipolis (424/423 and 422 BCE) [Summary]
- Athenian Massacre at Scione (423/422 BCE) [Summary]
- Defeat of Athenians at Amphipolis (422 BCE) [Summary]
- BOOK 5
- Peace and War
- The Peace of Nicias (421 BCE) [5.15-17]
- The Second Preface [5.26]
- The Failure of the Peace of Nicias [Summary]
- Power Beats Justice at Melos (416 BCE) [5.84]
- The Melian Dialogue [5.85-116]
- BOOK 6
- Launching the Sicilian Expedition
- Sicilian Antiquities [Summary of 6.2-6]
- Debate at Athens [6.8-26]
- Speech of Nicias [6.9-15]
- Speech of Alcibiades [6.16-19]
- Second Speech of Nicias [6.20-26]
- The Expedition Sails (415 BCE) [Summary of 6.27-105]
- Debate at Syracuse [6.39]
- Arrival of the Athenians [Summary]
- Digression on the Tyranny in Athens [6.54]
- The Athenians at Syracuse [83.4]
- Alcibiades's Escape [6.89.3, 92.2]
- BOOK 7
- Athenian Catastrophe in Sicily
- Sparta Joins the War [Summary]
- Night Battle for Epipolae [7.42-46]
- The Athenians Delay Their Departure [7.47-56]
- Forces on Both Sides [Summary of 7.57-59]
- Preparations for the Battle in the Great Harbor [Summary of 7.59-68]
- Battle in the Great Harbor, September 9,413 BCE [7.69-74]
- The Athenians Retreat and Are Destroyed [7.75-87, 8.1]
- Nicias's Exhortation [7.77]
- The Bitter End [7.78-87, 8.1]
- BOOK 8
- Aftermath of the Sicilian Expedition [8.1, Summary]
- Oligarchy in Athens and the Empire [8.48.5-6, 8.64.5, 8.68.4]
- Collapse of the Oligarchy [8.89.3]
- The Five Thousand [8.97]
- After Thucydides Breaks Off: The Last Phase of the War [Summary].
- Notes:
- Translated into English.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781647920326
- 1647920329
- 9781647920159
- 1647920159
- OCLC:
- 1262640634
- Publisher Number:
- 99989176987
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