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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. In the first thorough exploration of the relation between these two traits, Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydide...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orwin, Clifford, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.
Temas:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydide. > Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse.
Thucydides, > 460-approximately 395 v. Chr.
Thucydide, 0460? - 0395? av. j. - c. > Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse.
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
431-404 B.C.
Human behavior.
Behavior
Comportement humain.
human behavior.
18.43 ancient Greek literature.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
War > Causes
Historiography
Human behavior
Peloponnesische Oorlog.
Redes.
Rechtvaardigheid.
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. j. > c. (Guerre du Pélonnèse)
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Historiography.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Causes.
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) > Causes.
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) > Historiographie.
Greece
Grèce > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Prologue: The Athenian Empire as Freely Chosen Project: Pericles' Funeral Oration
  • Ch. 2. The Outbreak of the War and the Problem of Blame. The State of the Problem. "It Is Right ..." "It Is Necessary ..." To the First Spartan Congress and the Speech of the Corinthian Envoys. Nature, Necessity, and Justice: The Speech of the Athenian Envoys at Sparta. The "Fifty Years" as a Commentary on the Athenian Speech. Unresolved Tensions in the Speech of the Athenians at Sparta. Through Spartan Eyes
  • Ch. 3. Justice as Usual. Justice, Virtue, and the Duties of Alliance: The Speech of the Mytilenians at Olympia (3.9-14). Plataea and Thebes. The Justice of Sparta and the Athenian Thesis
  • Ch. 4. Piety and Necessity. Piety, Necessity, and the Athenian Thesis: The Delian Debate
  • Ch. 5. The Melian Dialogue and the Fate of Melos. Why a Dialogue: Speech and Context (5.84-89). Ought the Athenians Attack? (5.90-99). Ought the Melians Resist? (5.100-113). Spartan Neglect, Athenian Cruelty, Disaster in Sicily.
  • The Envoys to Melos as Exponents of the Athenian Thesis
  • Ch. 6. Melos and Syracuse. The Wisdom and Folly of Nicias. The Dialogue on Melos and the Mendacity of Euphemus. Athens and Mycalessus. The Folly and Wisdom of Nicias. Motive and Compulsion in the Sicilian Campaign
  • Ch. 7. The Athenian Thesis Reconsidered: Diodotus and Hermocrates. The Mytilenian Debate. The Speech of Hermocrates at Gela
  • Ch. 8. Domestic Politics. Plague. Stasis. Plague, Stasis, and the Periclean Vision. The Question of the Regime
  • Ch. 9. Recapitulation and Conclusion: The Humanity of Thucydides
  • Appendix 1: Thucydides 1.22.1-3
  • Appendix 2: Thucydides' Use of Prophasis at 1.23.5-6
  • Appendix 3: Thucydides' Presentation of the Demand for the Repeal of the Megarian Decree.

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