TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pouncey,Peter R.
TI  - The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides' Pessimism
SN  - 9780231921060
PY  - 1980///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/poun92106
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