TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thucydides
AU  - Hanink,Johanna
TI  - How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy 
T2  - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
SN  - 9780691190150
AV  - DF229.2 
U1  - 938.05 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 5th century BC
KW  - Aegean Sea
KW  - Aegina
KW  - Aegospotami
KW  - Aftermath of World War II
KW  - Amphipolis
KW  - Ancient Greece
KW  - Ancient Greek
KW  - Ancient history
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Archidamus II
KW  - Athenian Democracy
KW  - Battle of Aegospotami
KW  - Battle of Plataea
KW  - Boeotia
KW  - Brasidas
KW  - Byzantium
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Chalkidiki
KW  - Chios
KW  - Cimon
KW  - Classical Athens
KW  - Classical Greece
KW  - Classical antiquity
KW  - Classical realism (international relations)
KW  - Classics
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Containment
KW  - Corfu
KW  - Decelea
KW  - Delian League
KW  - Delos
KW  - Diodorus Siculus
KW  - Dionysius of Halicarnassus
KW  - Donald Kagan
KW  - Epigraphy
KW  - Euboea
KW  - Eupolis
KW  - Expansionism
KW  - First Peloponnesian War
KW  - Foreign policy
KW  - Greco-Persian Wars
KW  - Hegemony
KW  - Hellenica
KW  - Helots
KW  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - International relations
KW  - Ionians
KW  - Irving Kristol
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Leo Strauss
KW  - Lesbos
KW  - Loeb Classical Library
KW  - Loeb
KW  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - Megara
KW  - National interest
KW  - Naxos
KW  - Olorus
KW  - On War
KW  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Parthenon
KW  - Peace of Nicias
KW  - Peloponnese
KW  - Peloponnesian League
KW  - Peloponnesian War
KW  - Pericles' Funeral Oration
KW  - Pericles
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Political science
KW  - Politician
KW  - Port of Piraeus
KW  - Potidaea
KW  - Primary source
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Realpolitik
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Richard Crawley
KW  - Robert Kagan
KW  - Second Continental Congress
KW  - Second Persian invasion of Greece
KW  - Sicilian Expedition
KW  - Soft power
KW  - Ten Years' War
KW  - Tetradrachm
KW  - Thasos
KW  - The First Man
KW  - The Modern World (novel)
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Persians
KW  - Themistocles
KW  - Thirty Years' Peace
KW  - Thomas Hobbes
KW  - Thucydides
KW  - Translations
KW  - University of California Press
KW  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - William Kristol
KW  - Xenophon
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; The Speeches --; On Justifying a War: Pericles’ First War Speech --; On Dying for Your Country: Pericles’ Funeral Oration --; On Holding the Course: Pericles’ Last Speech --; On Realpolitik: The Mytilenean Debate --; On Ruthlessness: The Melian Dialogue --; On Launching a Foreign Invasion: The Sicilian Debate --; NOTES --; FURTHER READING; restricted access
N2  - An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis. How to Think about War presents the most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new translation by classicist Johanna Hanink, accompanied by an enlightening introduction, informative headnotes, and the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an ideally accessible introduction to Thucydides’s long and challenging History.Thucydides intended his account of the clash between classical Greece’s mightiest powers—Athens and Sparta—to be a “possession for all time.” Today, it remains a foundational work for the study not only of ancient history but also contemporary politics and international relations. How to Think about War features speeches that have earned the History its celebrated status—all of those delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles’s funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless “Melian Dialogue.” Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and imperialism.The first English-language collection of speeches from Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691193847?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691193847
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691193847/original
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