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A Historical Commentary on Thucydides
David CartwrightRex Warner
其他書名
A Companion to Rex Warner's Penguin Translation
出版University of Michigan Press, 1997
主題History / Ancient / GreeceHistory / Europe / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN04721069539780472106950
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MBQMAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Much of the modern way of thinking about history and historiography in fact begins with the great Greek historian Thucydides, an Athenian general in the latter half of the fifth century b.c.e. It is also Thucydides who provides us with the historical framework for fifth-century Greece, a period of progress and creativity rarely equaled in human history. His work, The Peloponnesian War, recounts that destructive conflict and also includes the only surviving contemporary record of the rise of the Athenian empire. Thucydides teaches his readers that the most powerful states in the world can come to a humiliating end, that a careless tyranny, especially toward the weak, and, nearly two millennia before Machiavelli, that absolute power corrupts absolutely.