Thucydides : man's place in history

Author(s)

• Stahl, Hans-Peter

Bibliographic Information

Thucydides : man's place in history

H.-P. Stahl

Classical Press of Wales, 2003

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Stahl's book is widely recognized as one of the defining studies of Thucydides from the 20th century. Here in English for the first time, it penetrates as few others to the Greek writer's deepest interests. Stahl reveals Thucydides' work as a study in the fallibility of human projects. Above all, Thucydides is shown as interested in tracking how optomistic plans lead to irremediable suffering in the field of foreign policy. For this new edition, the original has been revised and enlarged by two chapters which reflect the author's subsequent work.

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• NCID: BA67954598
• ISBN:
  • 0954384520
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Swansea
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 248 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA4461
  • DC22 : 938.05
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
  • LCSH : Greece -- History -- Penloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography