Thucydides
Auteur van De geschiedenis van de Peloponnesische oorlog
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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On Justice, Power, and Human Nature : Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War (1993) 394 exemplaren
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (2013) 56 exemplaren
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 1 20 exemplaren
Athenian Disaster in Sicily 9 exemplaren
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5 7 exemplaren
HISTÒRIA DE LA GUERRA DEL PELOPONÉS - LLIBRE II 6 exemplaren
Pericles's Funeral Oration [Greek] 6 exemplaren
Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy) (2000) 5 exemplaren
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (2021) 5 exemplaren
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 4 4 exemplaren
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury 3 exemplaren
Ιστορίαι: Πελοποννησιακός πόλεμος 3 exemplaren
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books VI and VII: A Companion to the Penguin Translation (Classical… (1998) 3 exemplaren
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 6 2 exemplaren
Thucydides II (LCL 109) 2 exemplaren
Thucydides, book 3 2 exemplaren
La grande dune 2 exemplaren
Thucydides - Vol. I 2 exemplaren
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 exemplaren
La guerra del Pelopponeso (vol. I) 2 exemplaren
Le storie. Volume primo 2 exemplaren
Thucydides III @Book III 2 exemplaren
The Siege of Plataea, from Thucydides Books ii. and iii. (Rivingtons Middle Form Classics) 2 exemplaren
Le storie. Testo greco a fronte. Volume 1 1 exemplaar
La guerra del Peloponneso vol I 1 exemplaar
Història de la Guerra del Peloponés Volum III 1 exemplaar
Le storie. vol. 2 1 exemplaar
The Funeral Oration of Pericles 1 exemplaar
Die Heerfahrt der Athener nach Sizilien 1 exemplaar
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war 1 exemplaar
History of the Peloponnesian War (Volume 1); Translated From the Greek of Thucydides (2010) 1 exemplaar
LA GUERRA DE PELOPONESO I- TUCIDIDES - BIBLIOTECA GREDOS - CLASICOS ESENCIALES DE GRECIA Y ROMA TOMO 9 1 exemplaar
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros III-IV (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 23) (Spanish… 1 exemplaar
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros V-VI (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 30) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaar
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 4-5 1 exemplaar
Sull'arte equestre 1 exemplaar
Guerre du Péloponèse suivi de Retraite des Dix Mille, La Cyropédie, Du commandement de la cavalerie, Traité… 1 exemplaar
Thucydides, Volume IV: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books VII and VIII: English Text 1 exemplaar
Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges : Ausw. aus d. Gesamtwerk / Thukydides. Hrsg. von Albert Klinz 1 exemplaar
Politische Reden 1 exemplaar
Anabasi (libri quarto e settimo) 1 exemplaar
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 1-7 1 exemplaar
La guerra del Peloponeso II 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 5 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 4 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 3 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 2 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 1 1 exemplaar
Thucydidis Historiae 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, V 1 exemplaar
Història de la guerra del peloponès, III 1 exemplaar
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2 1 exemplaar
Economico 1 exemplaar
La Guerre du Péloponnèse (French Edition) 1 exemplaar
Thucydides book 7 1 exemplaar
Thucydides ; the complete Hobbes translation, with notes and a new introduction by David Grene. 1 exemplaar
Thucydides, book III. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplaar
Thucydides, book VII. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplaar
Thucydides, Book VI. Edited by K.J. Dover. 1 exemplaar
Thoukydidou Xyngraphes D. The fourth book of Thucydides. Edited with notes by C.E. Graves 1 exemplaar
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 2-3 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Bk II 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Bk III 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Bk IV 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Bk VI 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Bk VII 1 exemplaar
Thukydidu syngraphē Mit erklärenden Anmerkungen 1 exemplaar
Thucydides, book I-VII 1 exemplaar
Thucydidis Historiae. 2, Libri 5 - 8 1 exemplaar
Thukydides erklärt von J. Classen, J. Steup 1 exemplaar
Thucydides: The Complete Writings of 1 exemplaar
Thucydides I & VII (2 vois.) 1 exemplaar
Thukydides V 1 exemplaar
Ho tu Thukydidu polemos peloponnēsiakos. Thucydidis bellum Peloponnesiacum ex edit. Wassii et Dukeri 7 [...] 1 exemplaar
Thukydides IV 1 exemplaar
Thukydides III 1 exemplaar
Thukydides II 1 exemplaar
Speeches from Thucydides 1 exemplaar
Thoukydidēs 1 exemplaar
La guerra del Peloponneso volume secondo 1 exemplaar
Peloponneserkrigen B. 2 1 exemplaar
Thucydides, Vol II. 1 exemplaar
Thoukudidou Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia oktō = Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo 1 exemplaar
Thucydides. Histories, book II 1 exemplaar
Thucydides : with an English translation 1 exemplaar
Thucydides II @Book II 1 exemplaar
Thucydides in Four Volumes 1 exemplaar
THUCYDIDES. 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Book II 1 exemplaar
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 169) 1 exemplaar
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 7-8 1 exemplaar
Historiarum capita selecta 1 exemplaar
The historians of Greece 1 exemplaar
Thucydides- Volume 1, books 1-3 1 exemplaar
Thukydides - erklärt von J. Classen 1 exemplaar
Thucydidis Historiae; recensuit Carolus Hude 1 exemplaar
Präparation zu Thucydides 1 exemplaar
Thucydidis Historiae; recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Henricus Stuart Jones 1 exemplaar
Hist of the Peloponesian Wars (Ch 1, 2, 8 1 exemplaar
Thucydides Book 2 1 exemplaar
Codex Palatinus Heidelbergensis Graecus 252 1 exemplaar
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In het eerste van de acht boeken waaruit zijn levenswerk bestaat somt Thucydides strenge eisen op waaraan een geschiedwerk moet voldoen. En vervolgens vertelt hij in zeven boeken de geschiedenis van wat hij ziet als de grootste oorlog ooit. Die geschiedenis bevat de veelbesproken grafrede van Perikles; een aangrijpende beschrijving van de epidemie die Athene teisterde; verhalen over de tragische ondergang van vele steden en de dood van ontelbare dappere strijders; het fascinerende verslag van de insluiting van enkele honderden Spartanen op een eiland; een openhartige en diepgravende dialoog over het recht van een superstaat om te heersen over zwakkeren – en veel, veel meer.
De Peloponnesische Oorlog is een zeer groot en zeer veelomvattend werk. Niemand zou zoiets nu nog durven of zelfs maar kunnen ondernemen.… (meer)