The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides' Pessimism /

The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides' Pessimism / / 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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Pouncey, Peter R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]
©1980
Year of Publication:1980
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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