Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Thucydides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521612586 ISBN 13: 9780521612586

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper historical context. The new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism, and the notes and extensive reference material provide students with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic background they need to engage with the text on its own terms.

About this title

Book Description:

Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. This new translation includes extensive reference material for non-specialists, including maps, glossaries, biographies, chronological charts, notes and an appendix of ancient sources in translation.

About the Author:

Jeremy Mynott is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has contributed to the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought and Cambridge Reader in the History of Political Thought (both Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and is also the author of several publications in natural history and ornithology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521612586
• ISBN 13: 9780521612586
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 754