Thucydides - Rilegato

Kagan, Donald

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0670021296 ISBN 13: 9780670021291

Casa editrice: Viking Pr, 2009

Riassunto

A reconsideration of the first modern historian and his methods from a renowned scholar

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 author have had an enduring influence on those who think about international relations and war, especially in our own time. In Thucydides, Donald Kagan, one of our foremost classics scholars, illuminates the great historian and his work both by examining him in the context of his time and by considering him as a revisionist historian.

Thucydides took a spectacular leap into modernity by refusing to seek explanations for human behavior in the will of the gods, or even in the will of individuals, looking instead at 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 modern work of political history, dramatically influencing the manner in which history has been conceptualized ever since.

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L'autore:

Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University, is an authority on ancient Greek history and culture and a scholar of diplomatic history. He is the author of many books on ancient and military history and the coeditor of two bestselling textbooks on world history and Western civilization.

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Book by Kagan Donald

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• Editore: Viking Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0670021296
• ISBN 13: 9780670021291
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 257