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.
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980] ©1980 |
Year of Publication: | 1980 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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