Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

Amazon.com Price: $26.95 (as of 03/05/2019 07:08 PST- Details)

Description

The grandeur and power of Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for two and a half millennia, and the work and its creator have had a long lasting influence on those who take into accounts international relations and war, especially in our own time. In Thucydides, Donald Kagan, one in every of our foremost classics scholars, illuminates the great historian and his work both by examining him in the context of his time and by bearing in mind him as a revisionist historian.

Thucydides took a spectacular leap into modernity by refusing to are seeking for explanations for human behavior in the will of the gods, or even in the will of individuals, taking a look as an alternative on the behavior of men in society. In this context, Kagan explains how The Peloponnesian War differs significantly from other accounts offered by Thucydides’ contemporaries and stands as the first up to date work of political history, dramatically influencing the manner in which history has been conceptualized ever since.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Ancient Civilizations » Greece » Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

Recent Products