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  1. Individuals in Thucydides by H. D. Westlake, 2010-06-24
  2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, 2004-12-01
  3. The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, 1989-10-15
  4. Thucydides by Thucydides Thucydides, Benjamin Jowett, 2010-08-27
  5. Thucydides: History IV-V.24 (Classical Texts) (Bk. 4)
  6. The Peloponnesian War (Norton Critical Editions) by Thucydides, 1998-07-17
  7. Thucydides by Walter Robert Connor, 1987-10-01
  8. A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 by Simon Hornblower, 2005-03-10
  9. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, 2010-01-29
  10. Stories From Thucydides by H. L. Havell, 2010-09-10
  11. Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Tim Rood, 2004-10-07
  12. Commentary on Thucydides Volume 5. Book VIII by A. W. Gomme, 1981-03-12
  13. Thucydides Book I: A Students' Grammatical Commentary (Bk. 1) by Howard Don Cameron, 2003-09-29
  14. Thucydides by Simon Hornblower, 1994-03-24

21. Thucydides
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    Thucydides [th OO E z] Pronunciation Key Thucydides c. 460 c. 400 B.C. , Greek historian of Athens, one of the greatest of ancient historians. His family was partly Thracian. As a general in the Peloponnesian War he failed (424 B.C. ) to prevent the surrender of the city of Amphipolis to the Spartan commander Brasidas and was exiled until the end of the war. He thus had opportunity to acquaint himself with both the Athenians and the Spartans and to acquire firsthand information for his one work, the incomplete History of the Peloponnesian War. History is that of Thomas Hobbes (1629; ed. by David Grene, 1959); modern translations include those by Richard Crawley (1910, repr. 1952), Rex Warner (1954), and R. W. Livingstone (1960). See studies by J. H. Finley (1942, repr. 1967), G. B. Grundy (2d ed. 1948), H. D. Westlake (1968), and A. G. Woodhead (1970); A. W. Gomme et al.

22. Thucydides In The Modern World
The Influence of thucydides in the Modern World. Thus, on one hand, thucydides was the first to describe international relations as anarchic and immoral.
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The Influence of Thucydides in the Modern World
The Father of Political Realism Plays a Key Role in Current Balance of Power Theories
By Alexander Kemos
Thucydides' realism has had a timeless impact on the way contemporary analysts perceive international relations. Adding to the works of Gilpin and Waltz, Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago viewed The Peloponnesian War as containing propositions that could be brought into a coherent framework and identified as "Thucydides' political philosophy" or serve even as the basis for a series of laws about the science of modern politics. In fact, political scientists have treated the work of Thucydides as a coherent attempt to communicate silent universals that have served as the basis for American foreign policy and security doctrine in the post World War II era. Thus, on one hand, Thucydides was the first to describe international relations as anarchic and immoral. The "Melian dialogue" best exemplifies Thucydides' view that interstate politics lack regulation and justice. In the "Melian dialogue," he wrote that, in interstate relations, "the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept." For him, international relations allow the mighty do as they please and forfce the weak to suffer as they must. On the other hand, Thucydides illustrated the Cold War phenomenon of "polarization" among states, resulting from their strategic interaction.

23. 431 BC HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR By Thucydides Translated
431 BC HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by thucydides translated by Richard Crawley The First Book. CHAPTER I. The State of Greece
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24. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
thucydides uses the term logographers to refer to the prose writers who came before and were contemporary with his great predecessor Herodotus (c 480425 BC
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Genre - History
What we refer to as myth or legend was considered historical fact by most Greeks down into and even beyond the fifth century B.C. For example, the Homeric poems were taken seriously as an historical record of the past. Indeed, as modern archaeology has shown, there is a kernel of historical truth in the Iliad that is, a war did take place at the site of Troy in approximately the same period as was assigned to it by legend. Nevertheless, it is clear that the overall account of the Trojan war in the Iliad is the result of imaginative embellishment of a story told again and again by generations of poets. It was not until more than two centuries after the composition of the Homeric poems that a more scientific form of history developed. Rational analysis, which had begun in Ionia with the Milesian philosophers with reference to the universe, gradually extended to include the recording of human events. Historie , the Greek word from which our word "history" is derived, means 'inquiry' and indicates the nature of this new way of dealing with the past. The recording of human events is no longer the uncritical retelling of traditional myths and legends, but an account which is the result of critical evaluation applied to what the author himself and others have seen and heard.

25. CTCWeb Glossary: T (taberna To Tyranny)
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A B C D ... How to link to the Global Glossary T taberna - a booth, stall, or shop where goods and wares were sold by merchants and farmers and where money-leaders plied their trade; tabernae lined the north and south sides of the Roman forum and were used by spectators of festivals, fights, battles, and games as seating so they could watch the activities from better vantage points. tablinum - in a Roman house, a reception area and storage area for the images of ancestors and family records. Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, born ca. 56, died ca. 117; little is known of Tacitus, it is speculated that he is of Gallic or Northern Italian origin; his works include Histories of the years 69-96 (?), out of 12 or 14 books, four (4) and part of a fifth survive (on Civil Wars, years 69-70); Annals covering the years 14-68, with 10 out of 16 or 18 books (minus parts of book 3) surviving and covering the reigns of Tiberius, part of Claudius' reign, and most of Nero's; his earlier works include Agricola , a biography of his father-in-law, Germania , and Dialogus de Oratoribus Dialogue on Orators Taurt - as an ancient Egyptian Bes and Hatshepsut at childbirths; this role was appropriate for a mother goddess who was said to help in the daily birth of the sun.

26. Thucydides. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
2001. thucydides. thucydides’ account of the plague, through which he lived, displays his clinical and descriptive attitude and is a standard of its type.
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27. Thucydides. The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. thucydides. (thoohSID-uh-deez) An ancient Greek historian and general.
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28. Thucydides
thucydides. b. 460 BC, or earlier? d. after 404, BC? Because of this blunder, thucydides was recalled, tried, and sentenced to exile.
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Thucydides
b. 460 BC, or earlier?
d. after 404, BC?
Greatest of ancient Greek historians and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War , which recounts the struggle between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BC. His work was the first recorded political and moral analysis of a nation's war policies.
Life
All that is certainly known (perhaps all that ancient scholars knew) of Thucydides' life is what he reveals about himself in the course of his narrative. He was an Athenian, old enough when the war began to estimate its importance and judge that it was likely to be a long one and to write an account of it, observing and making notes from its beginning. He was probably born, therefore, not later than 460perhaps a few years earlier since his detailed narrative begins, just before 431, with the events which provoked the war. He was certainly older than 30 when he was elected strategos, a military magistrate of great importance, in 424. Hence, he belongs to the generation younger than that of the Greek historian Herodotus His father's name was Olorus, which is not known as an Athenian name; Olorus was probably of Thracian descent on his mother's side. Thucydides was related in some way to the great Athenian statesman and general

29. Letters
The thucydides Syndrome Ebola Déjà Vu? (or Ebola Reemergent?). During the plague of Athens, thucydides may have made the same unusual clinical observation.
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The Thucydides Syndrome: Ebola Déjà Vu? (or Ebola Reemergent?)
Download Article To the Editor The plague of Athens (430-427/425 B.C.) persists as one of the great medical mysteries of antiquity , the plague of Athens has been the subject of conjecture for centuries. In an unprecedented, devastating 3-year appearance, the disease marked the end of the Age of Pericles in Athens and, as much as the war with Sparta, it may have hastened the end of the Golden Age of Greece By comparison, a modern case definition of Ebola virus infection notes sudden onset, fever, headache, and pharyngitis, followed by cough, vomiting, diarrhea, maculopapular rash, and hemorrhagic diathesis, with a case-fatality rate of 50% to 90%, death typically occurring in the second week of the disease. Disease among health-care providers and care givers has been a prominent feature . In a review of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the most frequent initial symptoms were fever (94%), diarrhea (80%), and severe weakness (74%), with dysphagia and clinical signs of bleeding also frequently present. Symptomatic hiccups was also reported in 15% of patients During the plague of Athens, Thucydides may have made the same unusual clinical observation. The phrase

30. Thucydides, Univ. Of Saskatchewan
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  • General Introduction
  • Thucydides and the medical writers
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    Suggested Background Reading
    • World of Athens, H.I. 33-61; 1.31-37; 7.34
    • (Optional: C. G. Starr, A History of the Ancient World, pp. 319-356)
    • See, as well, s.v. "Thucydides" in the on-line Perseus Project's encyclopedia.
    Items to note: *Pericles, *Archidamus, FN 1 the plague, *Cleon, *Mytilene, *Corcyra (Kerkyra), *Pylos, *Brasidas, *Nicias, *Alcibiades, *Melos, *Sicilian Expedition, *The Four Hundred (oligarchic coup in 411), *Lysander, *Aegospotami, *The Thirty
    General Introduction
    Thucydides, son of Olorus, [ FN 2 ] was born c. 460-455 B.C. and was most likely a relative of Cimon. His family was wealthy and influential, owning a series of mines in Thrace; as a result, Thucydides was placed in charge of the Athenian fleet in the northern Aegean in the mid-420s, where, in 424, he failed to come to the aid of Amphipolis in time to defend it from the attack of *Brasidas The World of Athens

31. Thucydides (Selections), U. Of Sask.
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  • The Plague (2.47-54)
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    INTRODUCTION
    [Background material can be found in the relevant section of the Course Notes for Thucydides. [1.1] Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote up the war of the Peloponnesians and of the Athenians, how they warred against one another, at its commencement beginning straightway and expecting it to be great and more record-worthy than all previous ones, this being indicated because both sides were at their peak of every kind of preparedness for it, and seeing that the rest of the Hellenic world stood with one side or the other, one part doing this and another part intending it. For this disturbance became the greatest ever for the Hellenes and for a certain part of the barbaroi, affecting, so to speak, most of mankind. For although it was impossible, due to the great amount of elapsed time, to find out clearly about events before these and especially about events even longer ago, nevertheless from the indications which it occurred to me to trust when looking back over as long a time as possible, I think that previous times were not great ones, neither with respect to their wars nor as regards anything else. ....

32. Bienvenue Sur Thucydides

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33. Thucydides; A Short Biography
thucydides The Author of The Peloponessian War . thucydides the son of Olorus was born probably about 460 BC and died about the
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Note from A Study Of Our Decline Biographies Home Thucydides The Author of " The Peloponessian War Thucydides the son of Olorus was born probably about 460 BC and died about the year 400 BC When the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C Thucydides probably took part in some of its early actions. Some time between 430 and 427 he fell ill in the plague, but recovered. In 424 he was appointed general, but his small squadron of ships arrived too late to save the important Athenian colony of Amphipolis from the Spartan commander Brasidas, though he successfully held the nearby port of Eion against Brasidas's attacks. In consequence he was exiled, not returning until twenty years had passed, only to die a few years later. For much of the period he describes The Peloponnesian War is the only source that survives. The verity of his reports and the justice of his perceptions have been the cause of controversy amongst scholars for centuries. But it is certain that he used his historical imagination to reconstruct only as a last resort. When the various parts of the history were composed, which of these he revised, and whether their chronological inconsistencies are due to later editing - these questions are still unsolved. Home Contents Biographies

34. Thucydides - Historian Peloponnesian War
thucydides (c. 460455 - c. 399 BC), who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War, came from a wealthy conservative family, was a friend of Pericles of Athens
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35. The Plague - Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
thucydides on the plague of Athens. In the midst of war, Athens was overcome by plague. The Plague thucydides Peloponnesian War.
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36. Thucydides And The Ancient Simplicity
Gregory Crane thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity The Limits of Political Realism Publication Date August 1998.
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"Crane's approach is original and quite stimulating. He takes a set of old questionsThucydides' objectivity, 'realism,' and understanding of human natureand gives them a new and exciting twist."J. Peter Euben, University of California, Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION (back to top) Thucydides' 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 politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work.

37. Thucydide
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38. Thucydides
thucydides lessons are timeless, and an indepth knowledge of his History of the Peloponnesian War should be a part of every thinking person s education.
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Thucydides' lessons are timeless, and an in-depth knowledge of his History of the Peloponnesian War should be a part of every thinking person's education. What follows is a verbatim account of a lecture on the lessons of history that "the world's greatest historian" can teach us, and their relevance for our time. This presentation was made by Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, distinguished scholar, researcher and journalist, as part of The Regnery Lectures, at the Third Annual Summer School, sponsored by The Rockford Institute of Rockford, Illinois, from 1 to 5 August 2000. The title of this series was: The Greek Roots of Christendom. Title of Lecture: From the Republic of Athens to the Athenian Empire: Athenian Hegemony and its Lessons for America. Historical parallels between eras and events are valid and important, because the factor of human nature remains relatively constant. It would be preposterous to assume that our jet engines or intimate search engines make us significantly different from our European ancestors. To claim that our material progress over the past century or two makes us in any way wiser or better than the Greeks of twenty-five centuries ago would be simply hilarious. Let us therefore look at the story of the Athenian rise and fall as a reminder to our present-day rulers that certain modes of political thinking and behavior will produce similar results today, just as they did in 404 B.C., or in 1815, or in 1945. The Persian invasion of mainland Greece in 480 B.C. transformed the Greek world forever. It played a crucial role in the refinement and definition of the Hellenic identity. Admittedly, of the hundreds of Greek city-states, only a few dozen opposed the Persian King-of-Kings, and only a small minority of Greeks participated in the war. But the victorious Athenians asserted freedom from external restraint as the key ingredient of Greek consciousness. In the years that followed the Persian defeat, Athenian power grew unabated. Its rise was due, in no small part, to the geo-political genius of Themistocles, whose grasp of the need for a strong, permanent navy was eminently modern in its strategic assumptions, and in its concept of the projection of power. The withdrawal of the Spartans from the continuing war against the Persians additionally helped Athens' claim, still limited and modest at that time, to be recognized as

39. Thucydides: Melian Debate

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40. Thucydides, Book 1
thucydides. HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. translated by Richard Crawley. Introductory Note. thucydides, as he himself tells us, was
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HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR translated by Richard Crawley Introductory Note Thucydides, as he himself tells us, was an Athenian and lived during the period of the Peloponnesian War, though, from the unfinished state of his work, he probably died before it came to an end. Believing in the early stages of the war that it would be one of the most important wars in Greek history, he collected his materials and began the early drafts of his history soon after the war began. The first book is his study of events leading to the war and represents the earliest surviving account of the building of the Athenian empire. The subsequent books narrate the course of the war itself. The electronic text version of this translation comes from the Eris Project at Virginia Tech, which has made it available for public use. The hypertext version presented here has been designed for students of Ancient History at the University of Calgary. I have added the section numbers (to facilitate specific citation or to find a specific passage from a citation; these are displayed in red , if your browser is capable of understanding later versions of HTML) and the internal links (to allow navigation); editions of the Greek texts have further subdivisions, but these have not been added at this point. The division into chapters and the descriptions of their contents is the work of Crawley; I have adopted these as the divisions for the internal links, since the number of sections is rather large. To compensate, I have listed the sections included in each chapter alongside the links to the chapters; this should eliminate the need for excessive scrolling of text to find specific sections. Crawley's paragraphs have been adopted here, with very little modification. Another HTML version, with no numeration, but with each chapter as an individual document if you prefer this, is available at the

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