The Peloponnesian War

This powerful translation by Thomas Hobbes has long been considered the truest to the original Greek. Hobbes's eloquent and lucid style captures Thucydides' use of language in recreating the Athens-Sparta conflict. It is Thucydides special ability to portray and enliven that has provided us with the most revealing accounts of the people and events in that long war: Pericles' funeral oration, the plague, the civil war in Corcyra, the debate between Cleon and Diodotus over the fate of Mitylene, the Melian Dialogue, and above all the ruin of the Sicilian translations that are works of art in their own right.

About the author

Thucydides (c. 460-c. 400 BC) was an Athenian general and historian. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens. In the first sentence of the book, he describes himself: "Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians as they warred against each other, beginning to write as soon as the war was on foot, with expectation it should prove a great one and most worthy the relation of all that had been before it."

Summary

Recounts the ancient war between Athens and Sparta in the translation by the seventeenth century British philosopher.

Product details

• Authors: David Grene, Thucydides, Thucydides 431 Bc
• Assisted by: T. Hobbes (Translation), Thomas Hobbes (Translation), Hobbes Thomas (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1989
• EAN: 9780226801063
• ISBN: 978-0-226-80106-3
• No. of pages: 668
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 23 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 737 g
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Ancient Greece, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Political science & theory, Literary essays, Political science and theory