1. The Internet Classics Archive | The History Of The Peloponnesian War By Thucydid The History of the Peloponnesian War by thucydides, part of the Internet Classics Archive. http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html

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4. Thucydides thucydides, an Athenian aristocrat, was probably in his late twenties at the time the War began; he realized its importance from the start and began to plan to http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/THUCY.HTM

The growth of the Athenian Empire and the power accruing to Athens aroused the fears of Sparta and other mainland states, especially Corinth, whose trade interests seemed to be threatened by Athens's control of the sea and so many of the islands and ports of the Aegean Sea. The Greek world split into two blocks of states, Athens and her Empire on one side, Sparta and her allies on the other. Both sides expected war, and it broke out in 431 over incidents in Corcyra and Potidaea (in northern Greece). Known as the Peloponnesian War , the conflict lasted (off and on) until 404, when Athens was defeated. Thucydides , an Athenian aristocrat, was probably in his late twenties at the time the War began; he realized its importance from the start and began to plan to write its history. In 424 he was elected one of the Athenian generals, and for failing to prevent the loss of an important city to the Spartans was exiled from Athens. He spent the rest of the War collecting evidence and talking with participants in the various actions. Herodotus, writing a few decades earlier than Thucydides, recorded almost all he heard, whether he believed it himself or not. Thucydides stands at the other pole; he gathers all available evidence, decides what he thinks is the truth, then shapes his presentation to emphasize that truth. We see everything through his eyes, and his views on the forces which shape human events emerge on every page. Thucydides begins his history by explaining why he thinks that this War is the greatest in which the Greeks were ever involved, even greater than the Trojan War and the Persian Wars. He then explains the principles upon which he evaluates evidence; his basic perspective is that human nature is the basic cause of historical events (Thucydides attributes no historical event to either the gods or to fate). He declares that his

5. Thucydides As Science Essay by Russell McNeil concerning thucydides' contribution to social science. http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/lec18b.htm

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6. Short Bibliography On Thucydides Short Bibliography on thucydides. Return to Rutgers Classics Home Page. This bibliography includes neither dissertations nor translations. For the most part, it lists books, not articles. in the http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/thuc.html

Short Bibliography on Thucydides Lowell Edmunds Return to Rutgers Classics Home Page This bibliography includes neither dissertations nor translations. For the most part, it lists books, not articles. The next-to-last section (Interpretation), listing books published in the last twenty years or so, does not include studies of two or more ancient historians of whom Thucydides is one. For more complete bibliographies, see the final section, Bibliographies. I would be most grateful for corrections and suggestions, which can be sent to edmunds@rci.rutgers.edu http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/pelof.html http://www.multimania.com/sdelille/indexa.shtml. Thanks to Steven J. Willett for i nformation. Feb. 1999. Thanks to Pamela Schmidt for several corrections and additions The headings are: Editions Scholia Commentaries Text ... Bibliography Editions Alberti, G. B., ed. Thucydidis Historiae. Roma: Istituto Polygraphico dello Stato. Vol. 1 (Books 1-2) 1972. Vol. 2 (Books 3-5) 1992. Vol. 3 (Books 6-8) 2000. de Romilly, Jacqueline, Raymond Weil, and Louis Bodin. 6 Vols. Vol. 1. Book 1

7. Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Thucydides 11th Brittanica thucydides. thucydides Athenian historian. Materials for his biography are scanty have been" sixtyfive years of age, Herodotus fiftythree and thucydides forty (Noct http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-thucydides.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Thucydides THUCYDIDES Athenian historian. Materials for his biography are scanty, and the facts are of interest chiefly as aids to the appreciation of his life's labour, the History of the Peloponnesian War. The older view that he was probably born in or about 471 B.C., is based on a passage of Aulus Gellius, who says that in 431 Hellanicus "seems to have been" sixtyfive years of age, Herodotus fiftythree and Thucydides forty (Noct. att. xv. 23). The authority for this statement was Pamphila, a woman of Greek extraction, who compiled biographical and historical notices in the reign of Nero. The value of her testimony is, however, negligible, and modern criticism inclines to a later date, about 460 (see Busolt, Gr. Gesch. The development of Athens during the middle of the 5th century was, in itself, the best education which such a mind as that of Thucydides could have received. The expansion and consolidation of Athenian power was completed, and the inner esources of the city were being applied to the CIMON; PERICLES). Yet the History It would be a hasty judgment which inferred from the omissions of the History that its author's interests were exclusively political. Thucydides was not writing the history of a period. His subject was an event-the Peloponnesian War-a war, as he believed, of unequalled importance, alike in its direct results and in its political significance for all time. To his task, thus defined, he brought an intense concentration of all his faculties. He worked with a constant desire to make each successive incident of the war as clear literature more graphic than his description of the plague at Athens, or than the whole narrative of the Sicilian expedition. But the same temper made himresolute in excluding irrelevant topics. The social life of the time, the literature and the art did not belong to his subject.

8. Cornford, TM, TOC Francis M. Cornford, thucydides Mythistoricus. Click to read. Table of Contents. xiii. CONTENTS. PREFACE. 5276. PART II. thucydides MYTHICUS. INTRODUCTORY. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Thucydides/Cornford/CTOC.html

9. Thucydides thucydides (about 460 404 BC) As long as the subject of history is studied, the fame of the Athenian thucydides will be secure. His stature as an historian has never been surpassed and rarely equaled. http://www.crystalinks.com/thucydides.html

THUCYDIDES (about 460 -404 BC) As long as the subject of history is studied, the fame of the Athenian Thucydides will be secure. His stature as an historian has never been surpassed and rarely equaled. In his History of the Peloponnesian War , he accomplished what few others have: He wrote an eyewitness account of the events of the war as they unfolded. Thucydides was born no later than 460 BC. The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta lasted from 431 to 404. Of his life very little is known except what he tells in the book itself. He was in Athens during a serious outbreak of plague in 430 and 429. In 424 he was elected a military magistrate and was given command of a fleet.

10. Great Books Index - Thucydides thucydides (about 471about 400 BC) Includes articles and notes about thucydides and his history, by Thomas Hobbes, F.M http://books.mirror.org/gb.thucydides.html

GREAT BOOKS INDEX Thucydides (about 471about 400 BC) An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation AUTHORS/HOME TITLES ABOUT GB INDEX BOOK LINKS The History of Thucydides Peloponnesian War Articles History of the Peloponnesian War (423403 BC) HTML edition in one document (Classics Archive) HTML edition in small sections (Perseus, Tufts) Translated by Richard Crawley. Greek text also available. [Back to Top of Page] Links to Information About Thucydides Biography of Thucydides (Perseus, Tufts) Includes several book references. Sources for Thucydides Research (Perseus) Includes articles and notes about Thucydides and his history, by Thomas Hobbes, F.M. Cornford, John M. Finley, and Gregory Crane. The Thucydides Syndrome: Ebola Deja Vu? (CDC-EID) Letter to the editor of "Emerging Infectious Diseases" suggesting that the Athenian plague described by Thucydides may have been an early outbreak of Ebola virus. [Back to Top of Page] GREAT BOOKS INDEX MENU Great Books Index Home Page and Author List List of All Works by Author and Title [90KB] About the Great Books Index Links to Other Great Books and Literature Sites ... Literary Cryptograms Support for the Great Books Index web pages is provided by Ken Roberts Computer Consultants Inc URL: http://books.mirror.org/gb.thucydides.html

11. Thucydides --  Encyclopædia Britannica MLA style " thucydides." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. APA style thucydides. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 27, 2004, from http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=74196

12. Thucydides And The Writing Of History Site by Mark Rutkus, analyzing changes in writing and thought in Greek culture by examining thucydides' The Peloponnesian War. http://people.english.ohio-state.edu/Ulman.1/courses/E574C/Projects/Rutkus/Thuc.

13. The Little Sailing Ancient Greek texts in Unicode encoding including Aeschylus, Apollodorous, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Lucian, Plutarch, thucydides, and Xenophon. Some texts are with sideby-side translation. http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/en/

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14. Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration Ancient Greece At the end of the first year of war, the Athenians held, as was their custom, an elaborate funeral for all those killed in the war. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/PERICLES.HTM

At the end of the first year of war, the Athenians held, as was their custom, an elaborate funeral for all those killed in the war. The funeral oration over these dead was delivered by the brilliant and charismatic politician and general, Pericles, who perished a little bit later in the horrifying plague that decimated Athens the next year. The Funeral Oration is the classic statement of Athenian ideology, containing practically in full the patriotic sentiment felt by most Athenians. What I want you to ask yourself is: according to Pericles, what precisely makes Athens great? How does this compare to other city-states? What problems do you see in Pericles' description of Athens? And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; our homes are beautiful and elegant; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish sorrow. Because of the greatness of our city the fruits of the whole earth flow in upon us; so that we enjoy the goods of other countries as freely as our own. I have dwelt upon the greatness of Athens because I want to show you that we are contending for a higher prize than those who enjoy none of these privileges, and to establish by manifest proof the merit of these men whom I am now commemorating. Their loftiest praise has been already spoken. For in magnifying the city I have magnified them, and men like them whose virtues made her glorious. And of how few Hellenes

15. Histories English translation of thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Perseus. Three versions in Greek also available. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?vers=English|none&lookup=thuc. 1.1

16. Ancient History Sourcebook: Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles' Funeral Ancient History Sourcebook thucydides (c.460/455c.399 BCE) Pericles Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46). http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles' Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46) This famous speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war. Funerals after such battles were public rituals and Pericles used the occasion to make a classic statement of the value of democracy. "Further, we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from business. We celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round, and the elegance of our private establishments forms a daily source of pleasure and helps to banish the spleen; while the magnitude of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbour, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as familiar a luxury as those of his own. "Turning to the sons or brothers of the dead, I see an arduous struggle before you. When a man is gone, all are wont to praise him, and should your merit be ever so transcendent, you will still find it difficult not merely to overtake, but even to approach their renown. The living have envy to contend with, while those who are no longer in our path are honoured with a goodwill into which rivalry does not enter. On the other hand, if I must say anything on the subject of female excellence to those of you who will now be in widowhood, it will be all comprised in this brief exhortation. Great will be your glory in not falling short of your natural character; and greatest will be hers who is least talked of among the men, whether for good or for bad.

17. Thucydides - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia thucydides. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Who was thucydides. His character was said to be dry, humourless and pessimistic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Nederlands Thucydides From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thucydides (between and 455 BC 395 BC ) was a ancient Greek historian . Thucydides was a wealthy Athenian noble and the son of Olorus the King of Thrace . His wealth came from his family's goldmines at Scapte Hyle on the Thracian coast. Thucydides was connected through family to Miltiades and Cimon , leaders of the old aristocracy supplanted by the Radical Democrats. Thucydides lived between his two homes, one in Athens and one in Thrace. His family connections brought him in to contact with the very men who were shaping the history he wrote about. ds Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Timeline of his life 2 Who was Thucydides 3 The Peloponnesian War 4 Writings by Thucydidies Timeline of his life Before he took no prominent part in Athenian politics. He was in his twenties when the Peloponnesian War occurred, and was in active service at the time. In he caught the plague and recovered. In

18. Lecture On Thucydides Preliminary Observations on thucydides. The following So we should be ready for what thucydides is attempting in his famous book. However, it http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/thucy.htm

Preliminary Observations on Thucydides [The following is the text of a lecture delivered, in part, in LBST 301, on Wednesday, November 15, 1995. This document is in the public domain, released May 1999. Last revision, December 2000] A. Introduction We have already read a number of narratives which have included depictions of war. So we should be ready for what Thucydides is attempting in his famous book. However, it quickly becomes clear when we read the opening of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War that the author is very consciously attempting something different. Thucydides goes to some length to insist upon this point: his narrative account of contemporary events is going to be something much better than similar accounts delivered by his predecessors, and he wants his readers to understand up front just why that is so. This discussion raises a number of interesting questions, not just about Thucydides, but also about the work of his predecessors, and these questions we can usefully approach by considering just what Thucydides is doing here in the way of clarifying a new conception of what we call history. In setting out his method and his critique of earlier narrative accounts of past events, that is, Thucydides is making a proud defence of a new method of telling such stories. And this defence, some have argued, marks the beginning of a new form of enquiry, history, as distinguished from, say, myth, romance, epic poetry, and so forth, other forms of narrative story telling about the past.

19. - Great Books - thucydides (c. 460 BC400 BC), Brief Biography thucydides was the famous Greek author of The Peloponnesian War. He was born somewhere between 460 and 455 BC. http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_1126.asp

Thucydides (c. 460 BC-400 BC) Brief Biography Thucydides was the famous Greek author of The Peloponnesian War . He was born somewhere between 460 and 455 BC. Thucydides was a wealthy Athenian noble and the son of Olorus the King of Thrace. His wealth came from his family's goldmines at Scapte Hyle on the Tracian coast. Thucydides was connected through family to Miltiades and Cimon. Thucydides lived between his two homes, one in Athens and one in Thrace. His family connections brought him in to contact with the very men who were shaping the history his wrote about. Timeline of his life Who was Thucydides His Character was said to be dry, humourless and pessimistic. Thucydides admired Pericles and approved of his power over the people, despite his usual disgust for demagogues. Thucydides was not completely in favour of democracy, but thought that it was ok when in the hands of a good leader. Thucydides would have been schooled by Sophists They were the teachers in Athens but today would be considered more like Philosophers and Astronomers Thucydides would have been taught by them not to accept things at face value, to question things. They would have taught Thucydides the mechanics of his writing, and they endowed him with his skills to assess the truth. Unfortunately, Thucydides is completely unaware of the workings of Economics he was not taught them, and did not understand them so they are omitted from his work. The Peloponnesian War Thucydides does not take the time to discuss the arts, literature or society in which the book is set and in which Thucydides himself grew up. Thucydides was writing about a event and not a period and as such took to lengths to discuss anything which he considered unrealated. Thucydides goes to great pains to make each event as graphic as the one which preceeded it.

20. Thucydides, C.460-c.400 B.C. Living in the Athens of Pericles, thucydides regarded the motives of statesman and the actions of government as the essence of history. http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/thucydides.html

Thucydides, c.460-c.400 B.C. The Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides was the son of Olorus, an aristocrat, and was born near Athens around 460 B.C. He suffered in the plague that devastated Athens in 430, but managed to recover and command an Athenian squadron of seven ships at Thasos (424). Failing to relieve Amphipolis, he was condemned to death. He took refuge in exile and retired to his Thracian estates. Thucydides lived in exile for the next twenty years and probably did not return to Athens until 404. Living in the Athens of Pericles, Thucydides regarded the motives of statesman and the actions of government as the essence of history. He did not simply categorize facts. Instead, Thucydides sought out those general principles that those facts illustrated. He searched for the truth underlying historical events and learned that the motives of men follow certain patterns. Therefore, the proper analysis of the Peloponnesian War would reveal those general principles that also govern human behavior. In The Peloponnesian War , Thucydides writes: Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own; I have described nothing but what I either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eyewitnesses of the same occurrences gave different accounts of them, as they remembered or were [partial to] one side or the other. And very likely the strictly historical character of my narrative may be disappointing to the ear. But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.

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