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The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato by John T. Hogan 9781498596329
Booksplease Price: £37.81John T. Hogan's The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens' defeat in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War. Comparing... -
Thucydides' Meditations on Fear: Examining Contemporary Cases by Raymond Taras 9781839989957
Booksplease Price: £25.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989957Author Raymond TarasFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem... -
Thucydides' Meditations on Fear: Examining Contemporary Cases by Raymond Taras 9781839989483
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989483Author Raymond TarasFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem... -
The Speeches in Thucydides: A Collection of Original Studies with a Bibliography by Philip A. Stadter 9780807865996
Booksplease Price: £37.96In this collection of nine essays, a group of internationally known classicists examine from a variety of viewpoints the speeches that Thucydides inserted into the history of the Peloponnesian War... -
Thucydides Bk. 1: A Students' Grammatical Commentary by H.D. Cameron 9780472068470
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The 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... -
Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides' History by John Zumbrunnen 9780271033587
Booksplease Price: £32.96The role of elites vis-a-vis the mass public in the construction and successful functioning of democracy has long been of central interest to political theorists. In Silence and Democracy, John... -
Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today Athanasios G. Platias 9781805264460
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73A fresh look at the ancient general and scholar's classic History of the Peloponnesian War, from the perspective of modern diplomacy and war. Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, History of... -
Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism by Gregory Crane 9780520207899
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power... -
Thucydides: History Books IV.1–V.24 by Peter J. Rhodes 9780856687020
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.21With this volume, P. J. Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction (on Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War), Greek text with... -
Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins
Booksplease Price: £22.29Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid,... -
Thucydides -- a violent teacher?: History and its representations by Georg Rechenauer 9783899716139
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £51.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899716139Author Georg RechenauerFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher... -
Avoiding the 'Thucydides Trap': U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains by Dong Wang
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24As the relationship between China and the United States becomes increasingly complex and interdependent, leaders in Beijing and Washington are struggling to establish a solid common foundation on... -
The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin Dan Edelstein 9780691231853
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to... -
Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts Esther Eidinow 9781350344198
Booksplease Price: £90.57How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in... -
Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? by Graham Allison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Allison... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.34Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical... -
Between Thucydides and Polybius: The Golden Age of Greek Historiography by Giovanni Parmeggiani 9780674428348
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.06Historians like Ephorus, Theopompus, or Aristotle's great-nephew Callisthenes, to say nothing of Xenophon, counted among the most acclaimed in antiquity. But with the exception of Xenophon, their... -
Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry by Simon Hornblower 9780199298280
Booksplease Price: £70.05Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities... -
Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making: Why War Is Not Inevitable by Ilias Kouskouvelis 9781498567411
Booksplease Price: £39.39This book uncovers a different perspective on the great classical thinker, who has largely been misread. Through the scrupulous and holistic analysis of The Peloponnesian War - or, as the author... -
Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present by David Boucher 9780198780540
Booksplease Price: £65.15David Boucher uses the ideas of western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He examines current conceptions, offering an... -
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket) by Thucydides 9781998667178
Booksplease Price: £36.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998667178Author ThucydidesFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Revive ClassicsPublisher Revive... -
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War by Martha C. Taylor 9781107415409
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Thucydides, 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... -
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition by Evan S. Medeiros 9781647123581
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £79.09Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a... -
Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus Lisa Hau 9781474427135
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient... -
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109 by Simon Hornblower 9780199594450
Booksplease Price: £109.26This is the third and final volume (Vol. I 1991, Vol. II 1996) of a historical and literary commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the twenty-seven-year 'Peloponnesian War' (between the... -
Xenophon's History of the Affairs of Greece by the Translator of Thucydides i.e. W. Smith by Xenophon 9781241450373
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241450373Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint British Library, Historical Print... -
A Few Remarks on a Pamphlet by Mr. Shilleto Entitled Thucydides or Grote? by J Grote 9781241456740
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241456740Author J GroteFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint British Library, Historical Print... -
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides: A Companion to Rex Warner's Penguin Translation by David Cartwright 9780472084197
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.89Much of the modern way of thinking about history and historiography in fact begins with the great Greek historian Thucydides, an Athenian general in the latter half of the fifth century b.c.e. It is... -
Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides: The Sicilian Expedition and Its Aftermath by Lisa Kallet 9780520229846
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95Wealth and power are themes that preoccupy much of Greek literature from Homer on, and this book unravels the significance of these subjects in one of the most famous pieces of narrative writing from... -
The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)Interpreting Thucydides' Political Thought Before, During and After the Great War by Dr Benjamin Earley 9781350194649
Booksplease Price: £33.84The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the... -
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography John Marincola (Florida State University, USA) 9781444339239
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.92This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises... -
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison 9781328915382
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328915382Author Graham AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780872201699
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £29.74Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most... -
Thucydides's Melian Dialogue and Sicilian Expedition: A Student Commentary by Martha C Taylor 9780806161945
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454-c. 395 b.c.) was an Athenian general and historian. This valuable commentary addresses the most famous part of Thucydides's... -
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Historical Account of the War between Sparta and Athens by Thucydides 9788027330928
Booksplease Price: £13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027330928Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher... -
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 by Simon Hornblower 9780199276257
Booksplease Price: £114.91This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary of the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and... -
Liberation and Authority: Plato's Gorgias, the First Book of the Republic, and Thucydides by Nicholas Thorne 9781793639066
Booksplease Price: £33.49Liberation and Authority: Plato's Gorgias, the First Book of the Republic, and Thucydides provides a comparative treatment of Plato's Gorgias, the first book of the Republic, and Thucydides' History,... -
Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 by Lisa Kallet 9780520303058
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Lisa Kallet-Marx redirects the approach to Thucydides' treatment of financial... -
Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IV by H. Stuart-Jones 9780198145509
Booksplease Price: £30.54Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IVBook InformationISBN 9780198145509Author H. Stuart-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)... -
Clio Enthroned: A Study of Prose-Form in Thucydides by Walter R. M. Lamb 9781107634572
Booksplease Price: £29.56Originally published in 1914, this book examines Thucydides' prose style and the literary influences affecting him at the time that he wrote his famous History of the Peloponnesian War. Through the...