Thucydides and the macedonians ancient and medieval. However, thucydides history was never finished, and as such, ends midsentence in the. Hornblower, simon 1987, thucydides, johns hopkins university press. By any standard, the dominant theme of the text is a critical presentation of the history of the peloponnesian war. Simon hornblower s most popular book is the oxford classical dictionary. Thucydides intended his work to be an everlasting possession and the continuing importance of his work is undisputed. Thucydides is considered by some scholars to be the father of modern history. Books ii and iii describe the main this is the first volume of a threevolume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of thucydides, the great fifthcentury bc historian of the peloponnesian war. Thucydides nonfiction approach to history and his love of exact facts have given him this. Hornblower s point that thucydides own personal education surely included a. Boegehold 1979 thucydides representation of brasidas before amphipolis, classical philology. What is the best translation of the peloponnesian war by. This is not a book for the newcomer to thucydides, who will gain more from gomme, romilly, parry, macleod, connor, pouncey, proctor, hornblower, and ostwald. Why did thucydides need to justify his use of speeches.
Thucydidean themes simon hornblower oxford university. Nielsen book data summary thucydidean themes is a collection of seventeen essays by simon hornblower on the great fifthcentury bc greek historian thucydides. Bibliography for thucydides in translation university. Thucydides treatment of nicias and alcibiades semantic scholar. Indeed, the tight focus on the war coupled with a rigorous standard of investigation is the very reason the text has persisted for two and a half thousand years. The third and final volume of the only commentary in english by a single author on the complete writings of thucydides, the great fifthcentury bc historian of the peloponnesian war. Thucydides says that he fought in the war, contracted the plague, and was exiled by the democracy. As has been commented brasidas incorporation of the macedonians into the barbarians may be explained by the fact that his speech was meant to encourage his soldiers and it was not a representation of thucydides own opinion of the macedonians32. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The risks and rewards of thucydides history of the. Conventional combat, gruesome disease, mass murder, and civil war tore apart the fabric of the ancient greek world. Essays and addressesthe speeches of thucydides wikisource.
Study 5 themes in thucydides flashcards from alexandra l. Professor simon hornblower all souls college, oxford. The most popular version among thucydides for mac users is 1. Hunter, 1973 book collected essays colin macleod, 1983 book reading thucydides james v. A commentary on thucydides simon hornblower oxford.
Thucydides author of history of the peloponnesian war. He may have also been involved in quelling the samian revolt. Quite a few comments have been posted about the history of the peloponnesian war. One of the benefits of a full commentary is that it is so easy to examine his remarks on other sections of thucydides. Thucydides, the peloponnesian war, book 1, chapter 2.
Finally, hornblower maintains that in his reconstruction of past events. Please read the final, fragmentary book of thucydides histories as well as pades thucydides renaissance readers and pires thucydidean. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the readers role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals thucydides use of objectivity not so much. Episodes know the stories and be able to recall and spell names of the principal characters, starting from these titles pericles funeral oration be able to describe the essential elements and themes, e. He is professor of classics and ancient history in the university of oxford and senior research fellow of all souls college, oxford. Thucydidean themes collects seventeen of simon hornblowers essays on thucydides, spanning the period from 1982 to the present titles of. In the summer of 428 bc, the peloponnesian army once again invades attica. Books by simon hornblower author of the oxford classical. This is the second volume of a threevolume historical and literary commentary on thucydides, the great fifthcentury bc greek historian.
My only criticism is that a 3 volume set at 325 dollars a volume seem painfully underwritten. It is difficult to tell whether thucydides would have smiled or sweated had he anticipated the prolonged, rigorous scrutiny that his history of the athenopeloponnesian war would receive at the hands of simon hornblower. This free software for mac os x is an intellectual property of matt neuburg. Thucydides identifies himself as an athenian, telling us that his fathers name was olorus and that he was from the athenian deme of halimous. This fullscale sequential reading of thucydides history of the peloponnesian war will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the histories. Buy a commentary on thucydides slp by hornblower, simon isbn.
Thucydides and clarendons history of the rebellion. What thucydides does not tell us simon hornblower the most surprising feature of thucydides account is that one thing is missing. There is a cottage industry of articles about precisely what kind of realist thucydides truly is, matched only by similar industries involving machiavelli and hobbes. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three main parts general. It supplements and makes notable advances on the continuation of the work of a. In fine, i have written my work not as an essay that is to win the applause of the. Although most have previously appeared in print, many have. Dec 17, 20 thucydides is a tool that lets you use webdriverbased unit or bdd tests to write more flexible and more reusable webdriverbased tests, and also to generate documentation about your acceptance tests, including a narrative description of test, along with the corresponding screen shots, and also highlevel summaries and aggregations of the test.
Corcyra and the 400 at athens 5 thucydides as political theorist. A fourth edition of my textbook the greek world 479323 bc was published in 2011. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. This book for windows and mac breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactlyprelaw handbook, 1978, law young hornblower three complete novels. Nov 28, 1991 of the three books covered in this volume, book i presents thucydides aims in writing the work and the historical background to the war. Dec 14, 2016 for instance, when thucydides makes his speakers say, as he so often does, that the future is uncertain, we do more justice to the originality of the remark if we remember that in the time of thucydides there were those who thought that the future was very frequently indicated, at great moments, by signs from the gods. The presentation of recent scholarship is fair, clear and comprehensive. The biases of thucydides history are a major theme of crane 1996a. Antony spawforth is professor of ancient history, university of newcastle upon tyne. It helps structure your automated acceptance tests in order to make them easier to understand and maintain, and provides great reporting capabilties on top of tools like jbehave, cucumber or junit.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Id read so many pages in one translation and switch to another. The history of the peloponnesian war the internet classics. Thucydidean themes electronic resource simon hornblower. This is the first volume of a twovolume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of thucydides, the great fifthcentury b. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Simon hornblower s commentary, by translating every passage or phrase of greek commented on, for the first time allows the reader with little or no greek to appreciate the detail of thucydides thought and subjectmatter. The politician thucydides son of melesias, set up an. This book is a collection of seventeen chapters on the great fifthcentury bc greek historian thucydides.
Simon hornblower, fba born 1949 is an english classicist and academic. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of scientific history by those who accept his claims to. Thucydides definition of thucydides by the free dictionary. Thucydidean themes is a collection of seventeen essays by simon hornblower on the great fifthcentury bc greek historian thucydides. Simon hornblower is professor of classics and ancient history, university college london. The peace of nicias and the sicilian expedition, ithaca. Thucydides is a library designed to make writing automated acceptance tests easier, and more fun. This the third volume of trilogy on thucydides hardly disappoint. Thucydides felt some kind of bad conscience hornblower 1991, 1. As usual the athenians do not provide massed resistance. There were three wellknown thucydides the poet, the historian and the politician. The fourthcentury and hellenistic reception of thucydides. Not that arnold gommes oxford commentary was above reproach, or addressed and resolved all. The greatest ancient historian, he is in a real sense the creator of modern historiography.
Aug 22, 2019 i did a interesting experiment by reading several translations of thucydides at the same time i have a history degree so theres that. Hornblower strikes an acceptable balance between summarizing scholarly debate and repeating material treated more fully elsewhere. Thucydides by hornblower simon 19870503 jan 1, 1829. Dec 04, 2017 thucydides classic history of the peloponnesian war documents the catastrophic fight between athens and sparta from 431404 bc. Review of hornblower, commentary on thucydides ii inscriptions having to do with cult are barely treated by gomme, but, h. A commentary on thucydides paperback simon hornblower. Simon hornblower this is a collection of seventeen chapters on the great fifthcentury bc greek historian thucydides. Simon hornblower has, in my opinion rightly, suggested that thucydides view was inconsistent. In fine, i have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time thucydides, the peloponnesian war book i, 22. Thucydidean themes simon hornblower oxford university press. Badian speaks of thucydides and his contempt for established greek religion. In the introduction to volume ii, hornblower recognized the strengths of gomme and stated his areas of difference, which. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the severe style in prose and verse.
List of books and articles about thucydides online research. Simon hornblower is professor of classics and grote professor of ancient history, university college london. Born in 1949, he was educated at eton college, where he was a kings scholar, at jesus college, cambridge, where he took a firstclass in part i of the classical tripos in 1969, and at balliol college, oxford, where he took firstclass honours in literae humaniores in 1971 ba and hence subsequently ma and a dphil in 1978 with a thesis entitled maussollos of karia. Midshipman hornblower, lieutenant hornblower, hornblower and the atropos, cecil scott. The peace of nicias and the sicilian expedition a new history of the peloponnesian war kagan, donald. The advanced student of thucydides may find a heuristic value in orwins work, finding associations and implications he may have overlooked, but he will need to read orwin cautiously, with. Thucydides and the ancient simplicity uc press ebooks collection. Simon hornblower has 30 books on goodreads with 1746 ratings. Most still assume that he died sometime around 400 b.
If this is the same lichas whose death is mentioned at thuc. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of scientific history due to his strict standards of evidencegathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect. Simon hornblower planned to produce a full historical and literary commentary on thucydides surviving work and that the oxford university press would publish it. Simon hornblower puts these two towering figures sidebyside for the first time, demonstrating a thematic and literary kinship.
Simon hornblower argues for a relationship between thucydides and pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Getting started thucydideswebteststhucydides wiki github. Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient greek historians and pindar one of the greatest greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great gamesabove all at olympia.
He is the author and editor of many books see books by the same author. For many years i wrote on thucydides thucydides, 1987. Of the three books covered in this volume, book i presents thucydides aims in writing the work and the historical background to the war. Kallet, l money and the corrosion of power in thucydides. As a general in the peloponnesian war he failed 424 bc to prevent the surrender of the city of amphipolis to the spartan commander brasidas and was exiled until the end of the war. His history of the peloponnesian war recounts the fifthcentury bc war between sparta and athens until the year 411 bc. This volume completes simon hornblower s most excellent commentary on thucydides. Greek historian noted for the unprecedented objectivity and thoroughness of his critical history of the peloponnesian war. Hornblower 1992 emphasizes thucydides disinterest in the political dimension of. Thucydides synonyms, thucydides pronunciation, thucydides translation, english dictionary definition of thucydides. Hornblower illuminates these ancient texts and makes the excitement as accessible and immediate as much more contemporary thrillers like the federalist papers.
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