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Thucydides
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Thucydides (
c.455–
c.400 bc), Greek historian. He is remembered for his
History of the Peloponnesian War, which analyses the origins and course of the war, and includes the reconstruction of political speeches of figures such as Pericles; he fought in the conflict on the Athenian side, but having failed successfully to defend a valuable colony, was condemned in his absence and exiled.
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Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession.
Magazine article from: Ethics & International Affairs; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Thucydides' Theory of International Relations...collection of essays is its liberation of Thucydides, that always timely classic thinker...contemporary textbooks. This volume shows that Thucydides not only challenges the political realism...
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The Humanity of Thucydides.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...and author of a series of articles on Thucydides, now offers a challenging study of...piety, and necessity in the thought of Thucydides. Orwin's outspoken admiration for...readers and deter others. Orwin treats Thucydides as a philosopher with a "teaching...
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Thucydides' sources and the Spartan plan at Pylos.
Magazine article from: Hesperia; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; To W. K. Pritchett ABSTRACT Thucydides' account of the Spartan-Athenian...hoplites on the island of Sphakteria. Thucydides' misconceptions stem from his...tendentious Peloponnesian sources. Thucydides' description of the Spartan...
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Realism ancient and modern: Thucydides and international relations.
Magazine article from: PS: Political Science & Politics; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...aside and write another essay on what Thucydides really meant (Singer 1975). The trouble...the study of ancient Greek democracy, Thucydides' account of the war between the Peloponnesians...1975, 14) called original history, Thucydides' work provides a uniquely direct point...
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Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...effected by Socrates" occurred, Thucydides occupies no obvious place in Leo...three substantial statements about Thucydides. The first statement, a published lecture, predictably demotes Thucydides to the subordinate status of a pre...
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"Courage in the face of reality": Nietzsche's admiration for Thucydides *.
Magazine article from: Polity; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ultimately distinguishes such natures as Thucydides and Plato: Plato is a coward in the...consequently he flees into the ideal; Thucydides has himself under control--consequently...s admiration for the Greek historian Thucydides. Very few scholars have considered...
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Cracking the Thucydides code.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...wish to deny their responsibility. Thucydides knew all of this and passed the word...that sheds light on our wars, too. As Thucydides tells us how men acted under pressure...future is to study the past. Who was Thucydides and what war did he examine? He wrote...
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Thucydides' realistic critique of realism. (ancient Greek historian and political thinker)
Magazine article from: Polity; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...trace their intellectual pedigree back to Thucydides. Read carefully, however, Thucydides is a theoretical realist who provides a sharp...are indelible features of political life. Thucydides even suggests that the very attempt to conduct...
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How international relations theorists can benefit by reading Thucydides.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: The Monist; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...realism in international relations, Thucydides was a historian and an original political...B.C. between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides' masterpiece, the History of the Peloponnesian...an issue. In these speeches and in Thucydides' own comments on the events that take...
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Pericles and the plague: civil religion, anomie, and injustice in Thucydides.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...several related ideas, as they appear in Thucydides's history of the Peloponnesian war...wartime plague on Athenian society, Thucydides also provides a vivid historical account...the so-called "Melian Dialogue," Thucydides presents the problem of justice and...
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Thucydides
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thucydides The Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-ca. 401 B.C.) wrote on the Peloponnesian...of modern historiography. Little is known about the life of Thucydides Most modern scholars place his birth between 460 and 450 B...
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Cleon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...than 1,000 according to the text of Thucydides—was carried out. Thus Cleon...which more civilized Athenians, such as Thucydides and Aristophanes, regarded as savage...offered peace and alliance on terms which Thucydides thought favorable. But Cleon persuaded...
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Polybios
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the greatest ancient historian after Thucydides. His view of Roman history presumed...Polybios was influenced greatly by Thucydides and believed that a knowledge of history...the artistic qualities of Herodotus or Thucydides, but he insisted on travel to the spots...
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history
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The second great Greek historian, Thucydides , was of a different stamp. In writing...aspects of history. The influence of Thucydides was early in the ascendant, and the...followed more or less the pattern of Thucydides but with a brooding moral interest in...
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Democracy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (d. c. 401 b.c.e.) describes...expansion can satisfy and secure. For Thucydides the desire for power and the appetite...Statesman, and The Republic, translated Thucydides' historical narrative of the Athenian...
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