Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (eBook)

Donald Kagan (Autor)

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2013
420 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-6720-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A new evaluation of the origins and causes of the Peloponnesian War, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts.

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Kagan's book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive.... Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before-but never presented with such thoroughness.-Journal of Interdisciplinary History The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved, Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

Autor

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

Inhalt

IntroductionPart One: The Alliance System and the Division of the Greek World
1. The Spartan Alliance
2. The Origins of the Athenian Empire
3. Sparta after the Persian War
4. Athens after the Persian WarPart Two: The First Peloponnesian War
5. The War in Greece
6. The Crisis in the Aegean
7. The End of the WarPart Three: The Years of Peace
8. Athenian Politics: The Victory of Pericles
9. Athens and the West: The Foundation of Thurii
10. The Samian Rebellion
11. The Consolidation of the Empire
12. Athenian Politics on the Eve of the WarPart Four: The Final Crisis
13. Epidamnus
14. Corcyra
15. Megara
16. Potidaea
17. Sparta
18. AthensPart Five: Conclusions
19. The Causes of the War
20. Thucydides and the Inevitability of the WarAppendixes
A. The Willingness of the Members of the Delian League to Accept Athenian Leadership
B. The Historicity of Diodoms' Account of the Spartan Assembly in 475
C. Chronology of Events between ca. 470–453
D. Reconstruction of the Athenian Tribute Lists
E. The Papyrus Decree
F. The Foundation of Thurii
G. Athenian Actions in the West between the Wars
H. Athenian Treatment of Byzantium
I. The Date of Pericles' Pontic Expedition
J. The Site and Date of Brea
K. The Date of the Battle of PotidaeaBibliography
General Index
Index of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions
Index of Modern Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2013
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• 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 • Athenian Empire • athenian imperialism • 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 • causes of the peloponnesian war • classical history • classical history buff • classical literary criticism • classisist • control of the Delian League • fall of the athenian empire • first stage of the peloponnesian war • Greek History • Greek military history • growth of athenian power • history of athens • history of lysander • history of sparta • history of spartans • History of the Peloponnesian War • invasions of attica • military study of the peloponnesian war • outbreak of the peloponnesian war • peace of nicias and the sicilian expedition • Peloponnesian War • Pericles • 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 athens • the rise and fall of athens • the samian rebellion • Thucydides • thucydides and athenian imperialism • thucydides and the peloponnesian war • war between athens and sparta • War Studies • what started the peloponnesian war • where was the peloponnesian war • who fought in the peloponnesian war • who was pericles
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-6720-9 / 0801467209
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6720-2 / 9780801467202