Thucydides

Name: Thucydides
ISBN: 9780670021291

the reinvention of history

ਦੁਆਰਾ Donald Kagan

3/5

(29 ਵੋਟਾਂ)

ਪਹਿਲੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ: 2009
ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਕ: Viking
ਵਿਸ਼ਿਆਂ: Thucydides·Greece·History·Peloponnesian war·431-404 bc·Historiography·Greece·Intellectual life·To 146 bc·Greece·Historiography
ਭਾਸ਼ਾ: English

Really interesting book that examines Thucydides as a historian and a writer and his role in shaping popular understanding and scholarship of Athens. This is not however, really a book that examines Thucydides' legacy as a political thinker.

Is history just one damn thing after another? Or can we discover the underlying logic of events that will allow us to shape a better future?

The book is barely over 200 pages and contains huge chunks (word for word) from Kagan's one volume history of the Great War. Since the War took place over 2000 years ago it is disturbing, in discussing what various partcipants thought or said, to find the author using such phrases as "It is inconceivable that" or "There can be no doubt that".