Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. – c. 395 B.C.) (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due to his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
He has also been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the relations between nations as based on might rather than right. His classical text is still studied at advanced military colleges worldwide, and the Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory.
More generally, Thucydides showed an interest in developing an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plague, genocide (as practised against the Melians), and civil war.
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.
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有人說,一個國傢在能夠對外輸齣價值觀之前不可能成為真正的大國。現代人往往贊嘆雅典的民主政治與璀璨的文化,惋惜雅典為寡頭政治下的斯巴達擊敗而未能將其光芒普及到全希臘。然而,真實的雅典帝國乃是建立於赤裸裸的暴力之上,關於這一點,無論是對內還是對外,坦率的雅典人...
評分一本名氣極大的書,我在兩年前到上海齣差時偶然看到,本書的印刷質量很好,裝幀極佳,雖然標價68大元,昂貴的讓人吐血,我還是咬咬牙買瞭迴來。說實在的,兩年來,我一直都沒看完,而且看的部分也是生吞活剝,不求甚解,完全不能享受到讀書的快樂。 也許是個人水平有限吧,我...
評分1米諾斯是第一個組織海軍的人 4 2此時,希倫人和沿海一帶與島嶼上的蠻族開始海上掠奪,並且這種職業並不被認為是可恥的。 4-5 3雅典人最早放棄隨身攜帶武器的習俗,而斯巴達人最早穿著簡單的服裝,最早實行裸體運動 5 4“因此,我們不應單純憑城市的外錶來判斷而不考慮他...
評分正義和利益,這是一對永恒的矛盾。行正義是否一定帶來利益?當然不是,而且,恰恰相反,正義往往帶來不利——這樣的話,為什麼還要行正義呢?有沒有獨立於任何利益的絕對的正義?這本是個哲學問題,卻經由一位“曆史學傢”得到瞭極為深刻的闡述——修希底德在記敘伯羅奔尼撒戰...
評分有人說,一個國傢在能夠對外輸齣價值觀之前不可能成為真正的大國。現代人往往贊嘆雅典的民主政治與璀璨的文化,惋惜雅典為寡頭政治下的斯巴達擊敗而未能將其光芒普及到全希臘。然而,真實的雅典帝國乃是建立於赤裸裸的暴力之上,關於這一點,無論是對內還是對外,坦率的雅典人...
圖書標籤: 曆史 古希臘 Thucydides 伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史 政治 History Classics 英文原版
這個真的好看。Thucydides比Herodutus好到不知道哪裏去瞭。
評分經典英譯本之一。
評分歷史專業的學生都應該好好讀一遍。 文字,特別是演說部份,怎麼會這麼有條理?簡直就是寫作的範本啊。
評分4.5
評分比希羅多德來得踏實 但是少瞭趣味。。
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