The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides' Pessimism / Peter R. Pouncey.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - 9780231921060
- 9780231887052
- online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION. THUCYDIDES' OWN EXPERIENCE OF THE WAR -- 1. ACCURACY (AKRIBEIA) AND THE PATTERN OF EVENTS METHODOLOGY AND POINT OF VIEW -- 2. THE PROGRESS OF PESSIMISM IN THUCYDIDES THE SKETCH OF AN ARGUMENT -- 3. THE ARCHAEOLOGY (1.1-23) -- 4. COLLECTIVE ACTION TO THE POINT OF WAR -- 5. PERICLES -- 6. MELOS -- 7. ALCIBIADES: A PATRIOT FOR HIMSELF -- 8. INDIVIDUALS IN THE TOILS OF WAR: NICIAS AND PHRYNICHUS -- 9. HUMAN NATURE AT WAR IN THUCYDIDES -- APPENDIX. HUMAN NATURE IN HOBBES -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Attempts to reach the mind of the historian and writer Thucydides, with a particular focus on his pessimism as he works his transformation of the confused experience of events in wartime into an ordered history with lasting lessons for posterity.
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In English.
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