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Thucydides and internal war /
"In this book Jonathan Price demonstrates that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - or stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating as internal disturbance in both individuals and states. This...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "In this book Jonathan Price demonstrates that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - or stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating as internal disturbance in both individuals and states. This diagnostic method, in contrast to all other approaches in antiquity, allows an observer to identify stasis even when the combatants do not or cannot openly acknowledge the nature of their conflict. The words and actions which Thucydides chooses for his war narrative meet his criteria for stasis: the speeches in the History represent the breakdown of language and communication characteristic of internal conflict, and the zeal for victory everywhere led to acts of unusual brutality and cruelty, and overall disregard for genuinely Hellenic customs, codes of morality and civic loyalty. Viewing the Peloponnesian War as a destructive internal war had profound consequences for Thucydides' historical vision."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 410 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-396) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511040881 9780511040887 9780511483066 0511483066 9780511050039 0511050038 1107120004 9781107120006 1280429623 9781280429620 0511173997 9780511173998 0511153430 9780511153433 0511327897 9780511327896 |