How To Use Thucydides In A Sentence
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It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.
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Thucydides suggests, in addition, the existence of a diplomatic component.
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Thasos, and hearing that Thucydides had the right of working gold mines in the neighbouring district of Thrace, and was consequently one of the leading men of the country, did his utmost to get possession of the city before his arrival.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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According to Thucydides, he also established the first thalassocracy, or maritime empire.
First Minoan Shipwreck
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Indeed, The Peloponnesian War may well be the seminal work on international relations, even as Thucydides is venerated in the West as the founder of enlightened pragmatism in political discourse.
A Historian For Our Time
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Thucydides suggests, in addition, the existence of a diplomatic component.
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I say only that, relative to the standards of its time, there is a structured self-editing mechanism at work in Thucydides — yet another reason why he is especially pleasing to modern academic sensibilities, and why he has become the favored Greek among today’s policy elites.
A Historian For Our Time
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The striking parallel with Thucydides is in the decline in public debate in Athens and its ever more crazed imperial adventures, wiping out peoples (its murder of the men at Melos and enslavement of the women and children) and war against a large democracy - Syracuse - of which it was ignorant.
Balkinization
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Of course, Mr. Kagan relies heavily on Thucydides, as any historian of the Peloponnesian War must, but he doesn't hesitate to take issue with his judgments.
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Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.
The Spartacus War
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Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
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In history, he translated Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War into English, and later wrote his own history of the Long Parliament.
Thomas Hobbes
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Neither is the same precision required in Greek as in Latin or English, nor in earlier Greek as in later; there was nothing shocking to the contemporary of Thucydides and Plato in anacolutha and repetitions.
Charmides, or Temperance
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After the ostracism of Thucydides the oligarchic movement went underground and some of the political clubs became centres of revolutionary agitation.
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This was the issue on which opposition to him was focused by Thucydides son of Melesias, a relative of Cimon, but Thucydides was ostracized c. 443 and the building continued.
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In a passage often commented upon, Thucydides wrote of the seesaw battle in Corcyra Corfu in 433 BCE, which prefigured the larger war.
Bloodlust
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Profit is also found in Xenophon, Ovid, Thucydides, Cicero and Virgil.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Top 10 Most Influential Books:
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As a historian, then, Thucydides is more trustworthy.
A Historian For Our Time
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The Greek historian of the Roman Empire, the Roman historian of every date, are no better, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who has devoted many pages to the arraignment of Thucydides 'style, cribs with the utmost composure from the author he has vilipended.
The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
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Meanwhile the opponents of the conspirators, being superior in number, prevented the immediate opening of the gates, and acting with Eucles, the general to whose care the place had been committed by the Athenians, sent for help to the other general in Chalcidicè, Thucydides the son of Olorus, who wrote this history; he was then at Thasos, an island colonised from Paros, and distant from Amphipolis about half a day's sail.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Like the politicians described by Thucydides, Republican members of Congress now seem more deeply committed to their own partisan "ascendency" than to governing in a responsible manner.
Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
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Thucydides suggests, in addition, the existence of a diplomatic component.
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Thucydides suggests, in addition, the existence of a diplomatic component.
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Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
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Thucydides goes on to say that the stasis in Corcyra was simply the first, and not the worst, of a wave of civil conflicts that shattered many Greek poleis during the long Peloponnesian War.
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There is no element in Thucydides's account of Athenians being slow to fight.
Balkinization
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In the same manner, I would recommend neither a raw, unmellowed style, which, (if I may so express myself) has been newly drawn off from the vat; nor the rough, and antiquated language of the grave and manly Thucydides.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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Of course, Mr. Kagan relies heavily on Thucydides, as any historian of the Peloponnesian War must, but he doesn't hesitate to take issue with his judgments.
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In the selection of his models, his choice fell upon the older Greek writers, such as Empedocles, Aeschylus, Thucydides, men renowned for deep thought rather than elegant expression; and among the Romans, upon Ennius and Pacuvius, the giants of a ruder past.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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A collision at sea can ruin your entire day -- Thucydides.
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Chapter three:The synthesis narrates the expedition to the book of Thucydides' History of The Peloponnesian War writing influence.
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Democracies, many classical Greeks believed, were slow to fight, but more effective when they fought (ancient memory suggests this assertion is somewhere in Thucydides, but I could not find the exact citation).
Balkinization
