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A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
Booksplease Price: £25.31Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian... -
The Structure of Thucydides' History by Hunter R. Rawlings 9780691614915
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter Rawlings contends that Thucydides consciously divided the war into two... -
Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides by Virginia Hunter 9780691614526
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre- Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who... -
Commentary on Thucydides, Book 3 Rachel Bruzzone 9780472077489
Booksplease Price: £75.25Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the most significant historical and political texts of Ancient Greece, enjoying a broad appeal among the educated general public since at least... -
History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 6 by Thucydides 9781853995873
Booksplease Price: £33.49Book VI of Thucydides deals, through its speeches in particular, with Athenian motivation towards sending the great expedition to Sicily, with the attitudes of various factions involved, and with the... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 7-8 by Thucydides
Booksplease Price: £25.31Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian... -
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism by Laurie M. Johnson
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While... -
Thucydides Between History and Literature by Antonis Tsakmakis 9783110297683
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.98This volume brings together scholars from various areas (history, philology, linguistics, history of political ideas) and attempts a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of Thucydides'... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling
Booksplease Price: £80.73In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI by Christopher Pelling
Booksplease Price: £29.56In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader by Perez Zagorin 9780691138800
Booksplease Price: £26.80This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez... -
History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 2 by Thucydides 9780906515204
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book, like its companions on Thucydides books I and IV, is published primarily for students approaching a book of Thucydides for the first time or studying the Peloponnesian War in a more... -
Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darien Shanske 9780521864114
Booksplease Price: £99.43This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read... -
Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darien Shanske 9780521120760
Booksplease Price: £43.34This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read... -
Commentary on Thucydides, Book 3 Rachel Bruzzone 9780472057481
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the most significant historical and political texts of Ancient Greece, enjoying a broad appeal among the educated general public since at least... -
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Volume 2 by Thucydides 9780461692051
Booksplease Price: £20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461692051Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint -
Thucydides on Politics: Back to the Present by Geoffrey Hawthorn 9781107039162
Booksplease Price: £78.76Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last... -
Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom by Mary P. Nichols 9780801453168
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £41.82In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides' thought. Through her close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War,... -
Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory by Iacovos Kareklas 9781498599580
Booksplease Price: £85.65Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory demonstrates that in classical times, certainly in the era of the Peloponnesian War, international law and strategy existed in an advanced form... -
Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison 9781107644243
Booksplease Price: £27.60Originally published in 1906, this book by celebrated Classicist Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) reviews Thucydides' account of Classical Athens in the light of contemporary excavations made in the... -
Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides Pantelis Michelakis 9780198844105
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £90.30Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1... -
An Analysis of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War Mark Fisher 9781912127894
Booksplease Price: £6.68Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's celebrated History of the Peloponnesian War is not only one of the first great... -
Thucydides Book 1: A Students' Grammatical Commentary by H.D. Cameron
Booksplease Price: £73.23The first book of Thucydides is a compact masterpiece. Here he sets up the conditions that led to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 B.C. With great economy, he analyzes the origins of... -
Thucydides: History Book II by Peter J. Rhodes 9780856683978
Booksplease Price: £33.78This edition of Book II, the book in which Thucydides' main narrative of the Peloponnesian war begins, contains an introduction, a Greek text, an English translation, and a commentary which should be... -
Thucydides: History Book I by Peter J. Rhodes 9781908343963
Booksplease Price: £33.78With this edition of Book I, P. J. Rhodes provides the 'prequel' to his editions of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War (II, III and IV.1-V.24). As before, he provides an Introduction on... -
Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study by Carolyn Dewald 9780520241275
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.44As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides'... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling 9781316630228
Booksplease Price: £27.60In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Study Guide to The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides by Intelligent Education 9781645425083
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645425083Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 112 -
Thucydides on the Outbreak of War: Character and Contest by S.N. Jaffe 9780198716280
Booksplease Price: £114.88The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of... -
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism by Laurie M. Johnson 9780875801759
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56This original study has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While... -
Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory by Iacovos Kareklas 9781498599603
Booksplease Price: £37.42Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory demonstrates that in classical times, especially in the era of the Peloponnesian War, international law and strategy existed in an advanced form... -
Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction Jennifer T. Roberts 9780192855824
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.07Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a... -
Plato's Cosmology And Thucydides Mythistoricus by Francis MacDonald Cornford 9781498126731
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £46.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498126731Author Francis MacDonald CornfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 664 -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI by Christopher Pelling 9781107176911
Booksplease Price: £87.62In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Thucydides: Man's Place in History by Hans-Peter Stahl 9781905125326
Booksplease Price: £30.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905125326Author Hans-Peter StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint
Plato's Cosmology And Thucydides Mythistoricus by Francis MacDonald Cornford 9781497886322
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £56.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497886322Author Francis MacDonald CornfordFormat HardbackPage Count 664
History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 7-8 by Thucydides 9781853990557
Booksplease Price: £25.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853990557Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Translated by Richard Crawley) by Thucydides 9781420956412
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420956412Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint
Stories from Thucydides (Edition1) by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 9789362995605
RRP: £17.58Booksplease Price: £13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362995605Author Mary Hartwell CatherwoodPage Count 116Imprint
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War by Martha C. Taylor
Booksplease Price: £60.07Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the...