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The essential Thucydides : on justice, power, and human nature : selections from The history of the Peloponnesian War /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thucydides (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Woodruff, Paul, 1943- (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2021]
Edition:Second edition, expanded and revised.
Subjects:
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse)
Greece
431-404 B.C.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction
  • Further Reading
  • Works Cited
  • Maps
  • Book 1
  • Early History, Method, and the Cause of War
  • Thucydides's Preface
  • The Archaeology
  • On Historical Method
  • Origins of the War
  • Thucydides's Explanation for the War
  • Conflict of Corcyra with Corinth
  • Speech of the Corcyreans
  • Speech of the Corinthians
  • Debate at Sparta
  • The Case for Making War on Athens (432 BCE)
  • Speech of the Corinthians
  • Speech of the Athenians
  • Speech of Archidamus
  • Speech of Sthenelaïdas
  • The Fifty Years' History
  • Pericles's War Speech
  • Book 2
  • The First Year of the War
  • The Attack on Plataea
  • Preparations: Alliances and Preliminary Speeches
  • Early Operations
  • Pericles's Funeral Oration
  • The Plague: Human Nature in Crisis
  • Military Operations of 430
  • Pericles's Last Speech
  • Thucydides's Judgment of Pericles
  • Further Events of 430/429
  • The Siege of Plataea
  • Athenian Naval Victories at Naupactus
  • Book 3
  • Rebellion, Civil War, and Human Nature [428-425 BCE]
  • The Revolt of Lesbos (Mytilene, 428 BCE)
  • Ambassadors from Mytilene Speak at Olympia
  • The Siege of Mytilene
  • Breakout from Plataea (428/427 BCE)
  • Defeat of Mytilene (427 BCE)
  • The Mytilenean Debate (427 BCE)
  • Speech of Cleon
  • Speech of Diodotus
  • The Fate of Plataea (427 BCE)
  • Speech of the Plataeans
  • Speech of the Thebans
  • Human Nature Adapts to Civil War
  • Civil War on Corcyra (427 BCE)
  • Moral Breakdown in Civil War: Human Nature in a Crisis
  • The End of the Civil War (425 BCE)
  • Book 4
  • Both Sides Suffer Defeats
  • Defeat of Spartans at Pylos and Other Events of 425/424 BCE
  • A Speech to Unite the Greeks on Sicily, Summer 424 BCE
  • Brasidas's Campaigns against Athens.
  • Brasidas's Speech at Acanthus (424 BCE)
  • Defeat of Athenians at Delium (424/423 BCE)
  • Athenian Loss of Amphipolis (424/423 and 422 BCE)
  • Athenian Massacre at Scione (423/422 BCE)
  • Defeat of Athenians at Amphipolis (422 BCE)
  • Book 5
  • Peace and War
  • The Peace of Nicias (421 BCE)
  • The Second Preface
  • The Failure of the Peace of Nicias
  • Power Beats Justice at Melos (416 BCE)
  • The Melian Dialogue
  • Book 6
  • Launching the Sicilian Expedition
  • Sicilian Antiquities
  • Debate at Athens
  • Speech of Nicias
  • Speech of Alcibiades
  • Second Speech of Nicias
  • The Expedition Sails (415 BCE)
  • Debate at Syracuse
  • Arrival of the Athenians
  • Digression on the Tyranny in Athens
  • The Athenians at Syracuse
  • Alcibiades's Escape
  • Book 7
  • Athenian Catastrophe in Sicily
  • Sparta Joins the War
  • Night Battle for Epipolae
  • The Athenians Delay Their Departure
  • Forces on Both Sides
  • Preparations for the battle in the Great Harbor
  • Battle in the Great Harbor, September 9, 413 BCE
  • The Athenians Retreat and Are Destroyed
  • Nicias's Exhortation
  • The Bitter End
  • Book 8
  • Aftermath of the Sicilian Expedition
  • Oligarchy in Athens and the Empire
  • Collapse of the Oligarchy
  • The Five Thousand
  • After Thucydides Breaks Off: The Last Phase of the War
  • Dates
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Back Cover.