The Fourth Book of Thucydides: Edited with Notes

by Thucydides

Excerpt from The Fourth Book of Thucydides: Edited With Notes
In revising the text I have admitted a few emendations from Gobet and Classen, and many suggested alterations are discussed in their place but as a rule I have held aloof from the indis criminate 'restoration' which would remove from a Classical work every accretion of harshness or redundancy, and destroys in the process many an original and characteristic feature.
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Genres: History, Greece

337 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1888

About the author

Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. – c. 400 B.C.) (Greek Θουκυδίδης ) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
He also has been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the political behavior of individuals and the subsequent outcomes of relations between states as ultimately mediated by, and constructed upon, fear and self-interest. His text is still studied at universities and military colleges worldwide. The Melian dialogue is regarded as a seminal text of international relations theory, while his version of Pericles' Funeral Oration is widely studied by political theorists, historians, and students of the classics.
More generally, Thucydides developed an understanding of human nature to explain behavior in such crises as plagues, massacres, and wars.

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[Spyros Stavroulakis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ναυμαχία και μάχη της Πύλου, επιτυχίες των Αθηναίων στην Κόρινθο, τέλος εμφυλίου και σφαγή στην Κέρκυρα, επιτυχίες των Αθηναίων στα Κύθηρα και στα απέναντι Παράλια, μικρά γεγονότα στη Σικελία, ήττες των Αθηναίων στα Μέγαρα και στη Βοιωτία, εκστρατεία του Βρασίδα στη Μακεδόνία-Θράκη και παράδοση της Αμφίπολης, λοιπές επιτυχίες του Βρασίδα στην περιοχή, ανακοχή.