Thucydides
Autor/a de Història de la guerra del Peloponès
Sobre l'autor
Born into a family of Athens's old nobility claiming descent from the Homeric hero Ajax of Salamis, Thucydides pursued a political career under Pericles and served as a general in the Great Peloponnesian War of 431--404 b.c. His subsequent exile for failure to prevent a Spartan takeover of an mostra'n més Athenian colony in Thrace enabled him to observe the war from both sides. In his history of the war, he examines the policies and motives of the people involved with a calculated rationality that nevertheless conveys great passion. Although his narrative style is lucid and astringent, the language of the speeches that he gives his protagonists is some of the most difficult, yet rhetorically powerful, Greek from any period of antiquity. The work is deeply serious in tone. As Thucydides tells his readers at the beginning of the work, it contains nothing of entertainment value. He meant it, as he says, to be not simply a set-piece written for the delectation of an audience, but a "possession for ever." As Herodotus was the inventor of universal history, Thucydides was the inventor of the analytical historical monograph. He wrote in conscious contrast to Herodotus, whose work is full of entertaining fable and romance. While Herodotus wrote about the past by using all manner of traditions gleaned in his travels, Thucydides considered only contemporary history to be reliable and writes as an interrogator and witness of contemporary men and events. The gods, too, are absent from Thucydides's work, which scrutinizes human motivations as the exclusive business of history. The most powerful intellectual influences visible are the fully rational method of description and prognosis developed by the Hippocratic physicians and the tools of logical analysis and verbal argument then being forged by the Sophists. Behind these, however, lay a sense of tragedy. The history of Thucydides possesses the rhythm of a Sophoclean drama of reversal of fortune in which Athens falls from the pinnacle of imperial success and brilliance into political corruption, ruthless and amoral imperial aggression, and finally utter defeat and disaster. Athens's imperial hubris leads to its nemesis at the hands of Sparta, a conservative and landlocked state that had been powerless at the beginning of the war to inflict significant harm on the Athenians. Thucydides's work is unfinished. It ends abruptly in midsentence during a discussion of the events of the year 411 b.c. It was continued to the end of the war by Xenophon. Although very much the intellectual inferior of Thucydides, Xenophon managed by imitation to infuse this part of his Hellenica (his continuation to 362 b.c. of the history of Thucydides) with an elevation absent in the rest of his work. Until relatively recently, scholars took Thucydides at his word as an objective writer. More recently it has been recognized that his work skillfully promotes a patriotic and political argument, written in the climate of postwar recriminations. He presents Athens's empire as a natural consequence of the position of that city-state in the Greek world and the Athenian leader Pericles as Athens's greatest statesman, a leader who had governed Athens and preserved the empire with a firm and intelligent hand. Thucydides wanted to persuade his readers that Pericles was not the villain who destroyed Athens, that the blame fell to the politicians who came after him and pandered to the most extreme ambitious of the common citizens, the politicians who were the ultimate arbiters of policy in Athens's democracy. Some modern historians remain persuaded by Thucydides's portrait of Pericles and the Athenian democracy, but others argue from Thucydides's own testimony that Pericles led Athens into an unnecessary war in the belief that the opportunity had arrived to advance Athenian domination over the whole of the Greek world. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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Obres de Thucydides
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War: Essence of Thucydides'… (1993) 393 exemplars
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (2013) 55 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 1 20 exemplars
A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-beginners 4: Historiography: Thucydides: Events at Pylos and Sphacteria (1998) 17 exemplars
Athenian Disaster in Sicily 9 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5 7 exemplars
HISTÒRIA DE LA GUERRA DEL PELOPONÉS - LLIBRE II 6 exemplars
Pericles's Funeral Oration [Greek] 6 exemplars
Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy) (2000) 5 exemplars
Thucydides, Book 5 5 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 4 4 exemplars
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (2021) 4 exemplars
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury 3 exemplars
Ιστορίαι: Πελοποννησιακός πόλεμος 3 exemplars
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books VI and VII: A Companion to the Penguin Translation (Classical… (1998) 3 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 6 2 exemplars
Thucydides II (LCL 109) 2 exemplars
Thucydides, book 3 2 exemplars
La grande dune 2 exemplars
Thucydides - Vol. I 2 exemplars
History: Book I, chapt. 1,2,3,5; book II, chapt. 6,7; book V, chapt. 17; book VI, chapt. 18; book VII, chapt. 23 (1947) 2 exemplars
La guerra del Pelopponeso (vol. I) 2 exemplars
Le storie. Volume primo 2 exemplars
Thucydides III @Book III 2 exemplars
The Siege of Plataea, from Thucydides Books ii. and iii. (Rivingtons Middle Form Classics) 2 exemplars
Le storie. Testo greco a fronte. Volume 1 1 exemplars
La guerra del Peloponneso vol I 1 exemplars
Història de la Guerra del Peloponés Volum III 1 exemplars
Le storie. vol. 2 1 exemplars
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war 1 exemplars
History of the Peloponnesian War (Volume 1); Translated From the Greek of Thucydides (2009) 1 exemplars
Die Heerfahrt der Athener nach Sizilien 1 exemplars
LA GUERRA DE PELOPONESO I- TUCIDIDES - BIBLIOTECA GREDOS - CLASICOS ESENCIALES DE GRECIA Y ROMA TOMO 9 1 exemplars
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros III-IV (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 23) (Spanish… 1 exemplars
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros V-VI (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 30) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 4-5 1 exemplars
Sull'arte equestre 1 exemplars
Guerre du Péloponèse suivi de Retraite des Dix Mille, La Cyropédie, Du commandement de la cavalerie, Traité… 1 exemplars
Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges : Ausw. aus d. Gesamtwerk / Thukydides. Hrsg. von Albert Klinz 1 exemplars
Politische Reden 1 exemplars
Anabasi (libri quarto e settimo) 1 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 1-7 1 exemplars
La guerra del Peloponeso II 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 5 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 4 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 3 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 2 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 1 1 exemplars
Thucydidis Historiae 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, V 1 exemplars
Història de la guerra del peloponès, III 1 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2 1 exemplars
Economico 1 exemplars
La Guerre du Péloponnèse (French Edition) 1 exemplars
Thucydides, Volume IV: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books VII and VIII: English Text 1 exemplars
Thucydides book 7 1 exemplars
Peloponneserkrigen B. 2 1 exemplars
Thucydides ; the complete Hobbes translation, with notes and a new introduction by David Grene. 1 exemplars
Thucydides, book III. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplars
Thucydides, book VII. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplars
Thucydides, Book VI. Edited by K.J. Dover. 1 exemplars
Thoukydidou Xyngraphes D. The fourth book of Thucydides. Edited with notes by C.E. Graves 1 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 2-3 1 exemplars
Thucydides Bk II 1 exemplars
Thucydides Bk III 1 exemplars
Thucydides Bk IV 1 exemplars
Thucydides Bk VI 1 exemplars
Thucydides Bk VII 1 exemplars
Thukydidu syngraphē Mit erklärenden Anmerkungen 1 exemplars
Thucydides, book I-VII 1 exemplars
Thucydidis Historiae. 2, Libri 5 - 8 1 exemplars
Thukydides erklärt von J. Classen, J. Steup 1 exemplars
Thucydides: The Complete Writings of 1 exemplars
Thucydides I & VII (2 vois.) 1 exemplars
Thucydides, books II and III 1 exemplars
Thukydides V 1 exemplars
Ho tu Thukydidu polemos peloponnēsiakos. Thucydidis bellum Peloponnesiacum ex edit. Wassii et Dukeri 7 [...] 1 exemplars
Thukydides IV 1 exemplars
Thukydides III 1 exemplars
Thukydides II 1 exemplars
Speeches from Thucydides 1 exemplars
Thoukydidēs 1 exemplars
La guerra del Peloponneso volume secondo 1 exemplars
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 7-8 1 exemplars
Thoukudidou Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia oktō = Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo 1 exemplars
Thucydides. Histories, book II 1 exemplars
Thucydides : with an English translation 1 exemplars
Thucydides II @Book II 1 exemplars
Thucydides, Vol II. 1 exemplars
THUCYDIDES. 1 exemplars
Thucydides Book II 1 exemplars
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 169) 1 exemplars
Thucydides in Four Volumes 1 exemplars
Thucydidis Historiae; recensuit Carolus Hude 1 exemplars
Historiarum capita selecta 1 exemplars
The historians of Greece 1 exemplars
Thucydides- Volume 1, books 1-3 1 exemplars
Thukydides - erklärt von J. Classen 1 exemplars
Codex Palatinus Heidelbergensis Graecus 252 1 exemplars
Präparation zu Thucydides 1 exemplars
Thucydidis Historiae; recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Henricus Stuart Jones 1 exemplars
Hist of the Peloponesian Wars (Ch 1, 2, 8 1 exemplars
Thucydides Book 2 1 exemplars
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