Thucydides on the outbreak of war : character and contest

Thucydides on the outbreak of war : character and contest / S.N. Jaffe.

The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnes...

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Main Author: Jaffe, Seth N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Interpretive Approach
  • Speeches and Deeds
  • Outbreak of War
  • 1. Manifest Quarrels
  • First Quarrel
  • Debate at Athens
  • Speech of the Corcyraeans at Athens
  • Speech of the Corinthians at Athens
  • Athenian Decision
  • Battle of Sybota
  • Second Quarrel
  • 2. Spartan Congress
  • Speech of the Corinthians: Character and Advantage
  • Hellenic Enslavement
  • Athens and Sparta
  • Spartan Manner
  • Exhortation to Fight
  • Speech of the Athenians: Necessity as Advantage
  • Defense of Hellenic Freedom
  • Founding the Empire
  • Ruling Others
  • Arbitration and Spartan Power
  • Speech of Archidamus: Education, the Spartan Way
  • What Will Be Sparta's War-- Ways of Sparta
  • Ancestral and the Lawful
  • Speech of Sthenelaidas
  • War Vote
  • 3. Athenian Logic of the Truest πρoφασισ
  • Pentecontaetia
  • Athenian Hegemony
  • Thetnistocles and the Vision of Empire
  • Pausanias and the Ambition for Tyranny
  • Hegemony to Empire
  • Athenian Subjection of the Allies
  • Spartans and their Helots
  • Athens, Sparta, and the Battle ofTanagra
  • Thirty Years' Peace and the Revolt of Samos
  • Conclusion of the Pentecontaetia
  • Archaeology
  • Ancient Times
  • Trojan War
  • Motion and Rest after Troy
  • Athens and Sparta
  • 4. Sparta's Greatest πρoφασισ for War
  • Corinthian Speech to the Allies
  • Vote of the Spartan Alliance
  • Honor of the Gods
  • Cylonian Conspiracy and the Curse of the Goddess
  • Curse of Tainaros
  • Spartan Trust and the Treachery of Pausanias
  • Athenian Mistrust and the Loyalty of Themistocles
  • Spartan Logic of the Greatest πρoφασισ
  • Pericles on the Necessity of War
  • Conclusion: Thucydides on the Outbreak of War
  • Later Events
  • Thucydidean Project
  • Character as Fate
  • Cities and Citizens
  • Thucydides, an Athenian-- Necessity, Freedom, and Justice
  • Character and Contest.

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