Archidamian War (eBook)

Donald Kagan (Autor)

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2013
400 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-6722-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Archidamian War remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in English-certainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view-warmly embraced by too many scholars-that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable. - Peter Green - Times Literary Supplement This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan focuses on political, economic, diplomatic, and military developments. He evaluates the strategies used by both sides and reconsiders the roles played by several key individuals.

Autor

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University.

Inhalt

1. Plans and Resources
2. The First Year of the War
3. The Plague and Its Consequences
4. The Third Year of the War: Phormio
5. The Revolt at Lesbos
6. Sicily and Corcyra
7. Demosthenes
8. Pylos and Sphacteria
9. Megara and Delium
10. The Coming of PeaceConclusions
Appendix A: Pericles and Athenian Income
Appendix B: Pericles' Last Speech
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Modem Authors
Index of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2013
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 400 BC • a military study on the peloponnesian war • ancient athens history • ancient european history • Ancient Greek History • ancient greek naval history • ancient greek war • ancient histiography • ancient military history • books about ancient greek naval history • books about ancient greek war • books about greek war for the casual reader • books about pericles • books about thucydides • books for classics courses • books for greek history lovers • books from historians about ancient greece • books like the movie 300 • books like the movie gladiator • causes of the peloponnesian war • classical history • classical history buff • classical literary criticism • classisist • fall of the athenian empire • first stage of the peloponnesian war • Greek History • Greek military history • history of athens • history of lysander • history of sparta • history of spartans • History of the Peloponnesian War • invasions of attica • Peloponnesian War • spartan king archidamus • spartan occupation • spartan war strategy • students of ancient greece • the archidamian war • the first years of the peloponnesian war • the outbreak of the peloponnesian war • the rise and fall of athens • Thucydides • thucydides and the peloponnesian war • war between athens and sparta • what started the peloponnesian war • where was the peloponnesian war • who fought in the peloponnesian war • who was pericles
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-6722-5 / 0801467225
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6722-6 / 9780801467226