The Peloponnesian War (Norton Critical Editions)

by Thucydides; Blanco, Walter; Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert; Blanco, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780393971675
• ISBN10: 0393971678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon, Herodotus, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and twentieth-century journalist, Walter Karp. "Interpretations" includes richly varied assessments of Thucydides by Theodor Gomperz, Francis M. Cornford, Charles N. Chochrane, R. G. Collingwood, Albert Cook, Cynthia Farrar, Adam Parry, Glen Bowersock, Robert Gilpin, Michael Doyle, and Gregory Crane. The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix	(2)
Translator's Note	xi	(2)
Walter Blanco
Introduction	xiii
Jennifer Roberts
The Text of The Peloponnesian War	1	(350)
Book 1	3	(55)
Book 2	58	(44)
Book 3	102	(42)
Book 4	144	(51)
Book 5	195	(37)
Book 6	232	(42)
Book 7	274	(35)
Book 8	309	(42)
Backgrounds and Contexts	351	(54)
Xenophon
Hellenica, Book 1	353	(24)
Book 2, Chapters 1-3	372	(5)
Herodotus
The Histories	377	(6)
Book 2, Chapters 111-20	378	(2)
Book 3, Chapters 80-88	380	(3)
Plato
Gorgias, 479d-484c	383	(8)
488b-492c	387	(4)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince, Chapters 18 and 25	391	(5)
The Discourses, Book 1, Chapters 39 and 53	394	(1)
Book 3, Chapter 16	395	(1)
Thomas Hobbes
To the Readers	396	(4)
Leviathan, Part I, Chapter 13	397	(3)
Walter Karp
The Two Thousand Years' War	400	(5)
Interpretations	405	(118)
Theodor Gomperz
Secular Thucydides	407	(5)
Francis M. Cornford
Thucydides and the Irrational	412	(11)
Charles N. Cochrane
Thucydides, Cornford, and History	423	(12)
R.G. Collingwood
Greek Thought and the Writing of History	435	(8)
Albert Cook
Particular and General in Thucydides	443	(7)
Cynthia Farrar
Historical Understanding and the Polis	450	(14)
Adam Parry
Thucydides' Historical Perspective	464	(8)
Glen Bowersock
The Personality of Thucydides	472	(7)
Robert Gilpin
The Theory of Hegemonic War	479	(10)
Michael Doyle
Thucydides: A Realist?	489	(12)
Gregory Crane
Truest Causes and Thucydidean Realisms	501	(22)
Chronology	523	(4)
The Principal Combatants at the Outbreak of the War	527	(1)
The Kings of Sparta during the Peloponnesian War and the Kings of Persia during the Fifth Century	528	(1)
Glossary	529	(10)
Selected Bibliography	539	(6)
Index of Places and Peoples	545	(8)
Index of Important Figures	553