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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評分在大學第一學期的《外交學概論》課上,老師說學這個你們讀好三本書就行瞭,修昔底德的《伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史》,漢斯摩根索的《國傢間政治》和肯尼斯沃爾斯的《人、國傢與戰爭》。當時不知所然,也沒想過找來讀讀。直到今天纔算都翻過瞭,還不敢說讀過。 而真正激發我讀...
評分(原載2012年4月號《文景》) 公元前431年,希臘世界爆發瞭一場規模空前的戰爭。戰爭在兩大軍事同盟之間展開,一邊是以雅典為首的提洛同盟,另一邊是以斯巴達為首的伯羅奔尼撒同盟。這兩大軍事同盟的曆史至少要追溯到約半個世紀以前乃至更早。伯羅奔尼撒同盟是斯巴達在伯羅奔...
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評分(原載2012年4月號《文景》) 公元前431年,希臘世界爆發瞭一場規模空前的戰爭。戰爭在兩大軍事同盟之間展開,一邊是以雅典為首的提洛同盟,另一邊是以斯巴達為首的伯羅奔尼撒同盟。這兩大軍事同盟的曆史至少要追溯到約半個世紀以前乃至更早。伯羅奔尼撒同盟是斯巴達在伯羅奔...
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
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評分最愛Thucydides!雖然原文很摺磨人,但是譯本看起來真是爽!感覺是2500年前的後現代主義作傢,哈哈哈~
評分最愛Thucydides!雖然原文很摺磨人,但是譯本看起來真是爽!感覺是2500年前的後現代主義作傢,哈哈哈~
評分所有研究西方曆史,政治,還有in general civilization的人都得讀這本書。
History of the Peloponnesian War 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載