| Thucydides: Man's Place in History Contributor(s): Stahl, Hans-Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1905125321 ISBN-13: 9781905125326 Publisher: Classical Press of Wales OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2009 Annotation: Stahl's classic book on Thucydides is one of the most profound and widely respected modern studies of the Athenian historian. Published in German in 1966 as Thukydides: Die Stellung des Menschen im geschichtlichen Prozess, it was long unavailable in English. Stahl's achievement is, first, to free Thucydides from the nationalist limits which modern interpreters imposed, then to demonstrate the technique whereby Thucydides constructs his work as an interplay, using narrative to comment on the speeches of politicians, to confirm or, more often, to refute his speakers' analysis. The author is Mellon Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - History | Ancient - Greece - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 253 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stahl's classic book on Thucydides, here in English for the first time, penetrates as few others to the Greek writer's deepest interests. Stahl reveals Thucydides' work as a study in the fallibility of human projections. Above all, Thucydides is shown as interested in tracking how optimistic plans lead to irremediable suffering in the field of foreign policy. For this new edition, the original has been revised and enlarged by two chapters which reflect the author's subsequent work. |