Thucydides on the Outbreak of War - Character and Contest

Zusatztext S.N. Jaffe sheds new light in this relentlessly insightful and accessibly written study of the first book of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. In these pages, Thucydides comes to life as the original applied historian, weaving together two distinct narratives of the war into a single work: on the one hand, an accurate account of the particular twists and turns on the road to war, in all their complexity, and on the other hand, a universal study of political and psychological archetypes that could serve as a possession for all time. This exciting new study belongs on the bookshelf of any serious historian or political scientist who wants to better understand the origins of the Peloponnesian War and the intellectual process of one of history's greatest historians. Informationen zum Autor S.N. Jaffe is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University and an Associate Researcher at the Berlin Thucydides Center of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin. He has taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Toronto and is a member of the project 'Bewegung als Prinzip - Dynamik und Transformation als politische Impulse im 5. Jh. v. Chr' of the FU Berlin. Klappentext This book offers a new reading of Thucydides' famous account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new reading of Thucydides' famous account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Character and Contest 1: The Manifest Quarrels 2: The Spartan Congress 3: The Athenian Logic of the Truest ???? 4: The Greatest ???? for War Conclusion - Thucydides on the Outbreak of War

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• Authors: S. N. Jaffe, S.N. Jaffe, S.n. (Assistant Professor of Political Scie Jaffe
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2017
• EAN: 9780198716280
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871628-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; HISTORY / Ancient / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, International Relations, HISTORY / Military / Ancient, Political science & theory, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient warfare