Archidamian War

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

Av Donald Kagan

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"The Archidamian War remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in English―certainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view―warmly embraced by too many scholars―that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable."— Peter Green ― Times Literary SupplementThis book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan focuses on political, economic, diplomatic, and military developments. He evaluates the strategies used by both sides and reconsiders the roles played by several key individuals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1990-01-18
Mått154 x 230 x 24 mm
Vikt554 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801497148

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1. Plans and Resources2. The First Year of the War3. The Plague and Its Consequences4. The Third Year of the War: Phormio5. The Revolt at Lesbos6. Sicily and Corcyra7. Demosthenes8. Pylos and Sphacteria9. Megara and Delium10. The Coming of PeaceConclusionsAppendix A: Pericles and Athenian IncomeAppendix B: Pericles' Last SpeechBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Modem AuthorsIndex of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions

The Archidamian War remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in English—certainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view—warmly embraced by too many scholars—that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable.- Peter Green (Times Literary Supplement) A profound analysis of the relation of strategy to politics, a sympathetic but searching critique of Thucydides' masterpiece, and a trenchant assessment of the voluminous modern literature on the war.- Bernard Knox (The Atlantic Monthly) The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid.... Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers. To read Kagan's 'History of the Peloponnesian War' at the present hour is to be almost unbearably tested.- George Steiner (The New Yorker)