When Thucydides decided to concentrate on the war he had lived, he preferred to avoid anecdotal digressions that would divert the reader’s attention. However, in order to understand the origins and development of the war, he needed to investigate its recent and distant past. This effort to reconstruct and interpret the past explains the History of Peloponnesian War’s excurses. These discursive parentheses avail the reader with temporal depth, thus strengthening the texts’ key notion of regular human behavior. At the same time, the details provided by these digressions illustrate the particularities with which human nature manifests itself. So, by including these excurses, Thucydides lays bare to what extent economic resources and the fleet,...
Thucydides’ testimony on naval operations during the first stage of the Peloponnesian War (431-415 B...
Thucydides did not set out to be a theorist in his account of the Peloponnesian War. Rather, his ana...
Thucydides (5th Century B.C.E.) is arguably the first person to engage in systematic social measurem...
Tucídides se propuso concentrar la mirada en la guerra que había vivido, evitando digresiones anecdó...
In this paper, we seek to analyze some aetiological principles of Thucydides' historical narrative, ...
MONTEIRO, Rafael Ferreira. A narrativa histórica de Tucídides e a Guerra do Peloponeso: verdade e fi...
O historiador grego TucÃdides escreveu a Guerra do Peloponeso porque percebeu que esta guerra seria ...
The History of the Peloponnesian Wars, written by the Athenian historian Thucydides, is an outstand...
This project illuminates Thucydides’ political thought through a novel interpretation of the first b...
The singular and general character of Thucydides’ War can be sighted, if not truly captured, by stud...
International audienceIn the speeches, but also in the narrative, Thucydides reports on the decisive...
This article intend to analyse some concepts inside in the Thucydides book VIII. Concepts like, acq...
Tucídides se propuso concentrar la mirada en la guerra que había vivido, evitando digresiones anecdó...
Thucydides served as elected general (strategos) for Athens, and it is likely that he had (perhaps e...
The main source of information about the Peloponnesian War, which took place between Athens and Spar...
Thucydides’ testimony on naval operations during the first stage of the Peloponnesian War (431-415 B...
Thucydides did not set out to be a theorist in his account of the Peloponnesian War. Rather, his ana...
Thucydides (5th Century B.C.E.) is arguably the first person to engage in systematic social measurem...
Tucídides se propuso concentrar la mirada en la guerra que había vivido, evitando digresiones anecdó...
In this paper, we seek to analyze some aetiological principles of Thucydides' historical narrative, ...
MONTEIRO, Rafael Ferreira. A narrativa histórica de Tucídides e a Guerra do Peloponeso: verdade e fi...
O historiador grego TucÃdides escreveu a Guerra do Peloponeso porque percebeu que esta guerra seria ...
The History of the Peloponnesian Wars, written by the Athenian historian Thucydides, is an outstand...
This project illuminates Thucydides’ political thought through a novel interpretation of the first b...
The singular and general character of Thucydides’ War can be sighted, if not truly captured, by stud...
International audienceIn the speeches, but also in the narrative, Thucydides reports on the decisive...
This article intend to analyse some concepts inside in the Thucydides book VIII. Concepts like, acq...
Tucídides se propuso concentrar la mirada en la guerra que había vivido, evitando digresiones anecdó...
Thucydides served as elected general (strategos) for Athens, and it is likely that he had (perhaps e...
The main source of information about the Peloponnesian War, which took place between Athens and Spar...
Thucydides’ testimony on naval operations during the first stage of the Peloponnesian War (431-415 B...
Thucydides did not set out to be a theorist in his account of the Peloponnesian War. Rather, his ana...
Thucydides (5th Century B.C.E.) is arguably the first person to engage in systematic social measurem...