Thucydides
Autor(a) de The History of the Peloponnesian War
About the Author
Born into a family of Athens's old nobility claiming descent from the Homeric hero Ajax of Salamis, Thucydides pursued a political career under Pericles and served as a general in the Great Peloponnesian War of 431--404 b.c. His subsequent exile for failure to prevent a Spartan takeover of an mostrar mais Athenian colony in Thrace enabled him to observe the war from both sides. In his history of the war, he examines the policies and motives of the people involved with a calculated rationality that nevertheless conveys great passion. Although his narrative style is lucid and astringent, the language of the speeches that he gives his protagonists is some of the most difficult, yet rhetorically powerful, Greek from any period of antiquity. The work is deeply serious in tone. As Thucydides tells his readers at the beginning of the work, it contains nothing of entertainment value. He meant it, as he says, to be not simply a set-piece written for the delectation of an audience, but a "possession for ever." As Herodotus was the inventor of universal history, Thucydides was the inventor of the analytical historical monograph. He wrote in conscious contrast to Herodotus, whose work is full of entertaining fable and romance. While Herodotus wrote about the past by using all manner of traditions gleaned in his travels, Thucydides considered only contemporary history to be reliable and writes as an interrogator and witness of contemporary men and events. The gods, too, are absent from Thucydides's work, which scrutinizes human motivations as the exclusive business of history. The most powerful intellectual influences visible are the fully rational method of description and prognosis developed by the Hippocratic physicians and the tools of logical analysis and verbal argument then being forged by the Sophists. Behind these, however, lay a sense of tragedy. The history of Thucydides possesses the rhythm of a Sophoclean drama of reversal of fortune in which Athens falls from the pinnacle of imperial success and brilliance into political corruption, ruthless and amoral imperial aggression, and finally utter defeat and disaster. Athens's imperial hubris leads to its nemesis at the hands of Sparta, a conservative and landlocked state that had been powerless at the beginning of the war to inflict significant harm on the Athenians. Thucydides's work is unfinished. It ends abruptly in midsentence during a discussion of the events of the year 411 b.c. It was continued to the end of the war by Xenophon. Although very much the intellectual inferior of Thucydides, Xenophon managed by imitation to infuse this part of his Hellenica (his continuation to 362 b.c. of the history of Thucydides) with an elevation absent in the rest of his work. Until relatively recently, scholars took Thucydides at his word as an objective writer. More recently it has been recognized that his work skillfully promotes a patriotic and political argument, written in the climate of postwar recriminations. He presents Athens's empire as a natural consequence of the position of that city-state in the Greek world and the Athenian leader Pericles as Athens's greatest statesman, a leader who had governed Athens and preserved the empire with a firm and intelligent hand. Thucydides wanted to persuade his readers that Pericles was not the villain who destroyed Athens, that the blame fell to the politicians who came after him and pandered to the most extreme ambitious of the common citizens, the politicians who were the ultimate arbiters of policy in Athens's democracy. Some modern historians remain persuaded by Thucydides's portrait of Pericles and the Athenian democracy, but others argue from Thucydides's own testimony that Pericles led Athens into an unnecessary war in the belief that the opportunity had arrived to advance Athenian domination over the whole of the Greek world. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Séries
Obras de Thucydides
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War: Essence of Thucydides'… (1993) 394 cópias
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (2013) 56 cópias
A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-beginners 4: Historiography: Thucydides: Events at Pylos and Sphacteria (1998) 17 cópias
Athenian Disaster in Sicily 9 cópias
Pericles's Funeral Oration [Greek] 6 cópias
Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy) (2000) 5 cópias
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (2021) 5 cópias
Thucydides, Book 5 5 cópias
Ιστορίαι: Πελοποννησιακός πόλεμος 3 cópias
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books VI and VII: A Companion to the Penguin Translation (Classical… (1998) 3 cópias
Thucydides II (LCL 109) 2 cópias
Thucydides, book 3 2 cópias
La grande dune 2 cópias
Thucydides - Vol. I 2 cópias
History: Book I, chapt. 1,2,3,5; book II, chapt. 6,7; book V, chapt. 17; book VI, chapt. 18; book VII, chapt. 23 (1947) 2 cópias
La guerra del Pelopponeso (vol. I) 2 cópias
Le storie. Volume primo 2 cópias
Thucydides III @Book III 2 cópias
Le storie. Testo greco a fronte. Volume 1 1 exemplar(es)
La guerra del Peloponneso vol I 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la Guerra del Peloponés Volum III 1 exemplar(es)
Le storie. vol. 2 1 exemplar(es)
The Funeral Oration of Pericles 1 exemplar(es)
Die Heerfahrt der Athener nach Sizilien 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war 1 exemplar(es)
HISTORIA DE LA GUERRA DEL PELOPONESO - VOLUMS 1-2-3 1 exemplar(es)
History of the Peloponnesian War (Volume 1); Translated From the Greek of Thucydides (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
LA GUERRA DE PELOPONESO I- TUCIDIDES - BIBLIOTECA GREDOS - CLASICOS ESENCIALES DE GRECIA Y ROMA TOMO 9 1 exemplar(es)
The Peloponnesian War. The Thomas Hobbes translation. Edited by David Grene, with an introd. by Bertrand de Jouvenel 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Volume II: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books III and IV: English Text 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Volume II: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books III and IV: Greek Text 1 exemplar(es)
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros III-IV (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 23) (Spanish… 1 exemplar(es)
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros V-VI (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 30) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Volume III: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books V and VI: English Text 1 exemplar(es)
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 4-5 1 exemplar(es)
Sull'arte equestre 1 exemplar(es)
Historiadores griegos : Herodoto, Tucides, Jenofonte 1 exemplar(es)
Guerre du Péloponèse suivi de Retraite des Dix Mille, La Cyropédie, Du commandement de la cavalerie, Traité… 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Volume IV: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books VII and VIII: English Text 1 exemplar(es)
Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges : Ausw. aus d. Gesamtwerk / Thukydides. Hrsg. von Albert Klinz 1 exemplar(es)
La guerra del Peloponneso tomi 1,2,3,4 libri 1-2 4-5 6-8 1 exemplar(es)
Politische Reden 1 exemplar(es)
Anabasi (libri quarto e settimo) 1 exemplar(es)
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 1-7 1 exemplar(es)
La guerra del Peloponeso II 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 5 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 4 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 3 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 2 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 1 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydidis Historiae 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, V 1 exemplar(es)
Història de la guerra del peloponès, III 1 exemplar(es)
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2 1 exemplar(es)
Economico 1 exemplar(es)
La Guerre du Péloponnèse (French Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides book 7 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Volume IV: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books VII and VIII: Greek Text 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides ; the complete Hobbes translation, with notes and a new introduction by David Grene. 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, book III. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, book VII. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Book VI. Edited by K.J. Dover. 1 exemplar(es)
Thoukydidou Xyngraphes D. The fourth book of Thucydides. Edited with notes by C.E. Graves 1 exemplar(es)
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 2-3 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Bk II 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Bk III 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Bk IV 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Bk VI 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Bk VII 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydidu syngraphē Mit erklärenden Anmerkungen 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, book I-VII 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydidis Historiae. 2, Libri 5 - 8 1 exemplar(es)
Thoukydidou peri tou peloponnÂesiakou polemou biblia okto [Greek transliterated] = Thucydidis De bello peloponnesiaco… 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides : Book lV, chapters I-XLI (Pylus and Sphacteria) 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydides erklärt von J. Classen, J. Steup 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides. Book VI. Edited by E. C. Marchant. Gr 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides: The Complete Writings of 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides I & VII (2 vois.) 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War; Analytic Notes and Review 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, books II and III 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydides V 1 exemplar(es)
Ho tu Thukydidu polemos peloponnēsiakos. Thucydidis bellum Peloponnesiacum ex edit. Wassii et Dukeri 7 [...] 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydides IV 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydides III 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydides II 1 exemplar(es)
Speeches from Thucydides 1 exemplar(es)
Thoukydidēs 1 exemplar(es)
La guerra del Peloponneso volume secondo 1 exemplar(es)
Peloponneserkrigen B. 2 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, Vol II. 1 exemplar(es)
Thoukudidou Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia oktō = Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides. Histories, book II 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides : with an English translation 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides II @Book II 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides: histories, book iv, ed. by T.R. Mills. With a general intr. by H.S. Jones 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides in Four Volumes 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, With an English Translation, Vol. 1 of 4: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books I and II (Classic… 1 exemplar(es)
THUCYDIDES. 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Book II 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 169) 1 exemplar(es)
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 7-8 1 exemplar(es)
Historiarum capita selecta 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides, translated into English, to which is prefixed an essay on inscriptions and a note on the geography of… 1 exemplar(es)
The historians of Greece 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides- Volume 1, books 1-3 1 exemplar(es)
Thukydides - erklärt von J. Classen 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydidis Historiae; recensuit Carolus Hude 1 exemplar(es)
Präparation zu Thucydides 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydidis Historiae; recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Henricus Stuart Jones 1 exemplar(es)
Hist of the Peloponesian Wars (Ch 1, 2, 8 1 exemplar(es)
Thucydides Book 2 1 exemplar(es)
Codex Palatinus Heidelbergensis Graecus 252 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Thucydides
- Nome de batismo
- Θουκυδίδης Ολόρου Αθηναίος (Ancient Greek)
- Outros nomes
- Tucídides
- Data de nascimento
- 0460 BCE (circa)
- Data de falecimento
- 0395 BCE (circa)
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Greece
- País (para mapa)
- Greece
- Local de nascimento
- Athens, Greece
- Local de falecimento
- Athens, Greece
- Locais de residência
- Athens, Greece
Thrace - Ocupação
- general
historian
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OT for GMacAree em Fine Press Forum (Novembro 2023)
New LE: Thucydides The Peloponnesian War em Folio Society Devotees (Julho 2023)
Thucydides em Ancient History (Dezembro 2021)
Group read - Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War em The 11 in 11 Category Challenge (Dezembro 2010)
Translating Thucydides em Ancient History (Novembro 2010)
Herodotus vs. Thucydides em Ancient History (Março 2007)
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This was not an easy read. A lot of towns, names and all in all it was often a blur. I did enjoy some points made in debates and the discussions on oligarchy, democracy, and constitution. I think this might be a reference book but not something I would want to read cover to cover again.