The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides' Pessimism / / Peter R. Pouncey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Pouncey, Peter R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 1980
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887052; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/poun92106
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter R. Pouncey.

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.