Thucydides
Auteur de La Guerre du Péloponnèse
A propos de l'auteur
Born into a family of Athens's old nobility claiming descent from the Homeric hero Ajax of Salamis, Thucydides pursued a political career under Pericles and served as a general in the Great Peloponnesian War of 431--404 b.c. His subsequent exile for failure to prevent a Spartan takeover of an afficher plus Athenian colony in Thrace enabled him to observe the war from both sides. In his history of the war, he examines the policies and motives of the people involved with a calculated rationality that nevertheless conveys great passion. Although his narrative style is lucid and astringent, the language of the speeches that he gives his protagonists is some of the most difficult, yet rhetorically powerful, Greek from any period of antiquity. The work is deeply serious in tone. As Thucydides tells his readers at the beginning of the work, it contains nothing of entertainment value. He meant it, as he says, to be not simply a set-piece written for the delectation of an audience, but a "possession for ever." As Herodotus was the inventor of universal history, Thucydides was the inventor of the analytical historical monograph. He wrote in conscious contrast to Herodotus, whose work is full of entertaining fable and romance. While Herodotus wrote about the past by using all manner of traditions gleaned in his travels, Thucydides considered only contemporary history to be reliable and writes as an interrogator and witness of contemporary men and events. The gods, too, are absent from Thucydides's work, which scrutinizes human motivations as the exclusive business of history. The most powerful intellectual influences visible are the fully rational method of description and prognosis developed by the Hippocratic physicians and the tools of logical analysis and verbal argument then being forged by the Sophists. Behind these, however, lay a sense of tragedy. The history of Thucydides possesses the rhythm of a Sophoclean drama of reversal of fortune in which Athens falls from the pinnacle of imperial success and brilliance into political corruption, ruthless and amoral imperial aggression, and finally utter defeat and disaster. Athens's imperial hubris leads to its nemesis at the hands of Sparta, a conservative and landlocked state that had been powerless at the beginning of the war to inflict significant harm on the Athenians. Thucydides's work is unfinished. It ends abruptly in midsentence during a discussion of the events of the year 411 b.c. It was continued to the end of the war by Xenophon. Although very much the intellectual inferior of Thucydides, Xenophon managed by imitation to infuse this part of his Hellenica (his continuation to 362 b.c. of the history of Thucydides) with an elevation absent in the rest of his work. Until relatively recently, scholars took Thucydides at his word as an objective writer. More recently it has been recognized that his work skillfully promotes a patriotic and political argument, written in the climate of postwar recriminations. He presents Athens's empire as a natural consequence of the position of that city-state in the Greek world and the Athenian leader Pericles as Athens's greatest statesman, a leader who had governed Athens and preserved the empire with a firm and intelligent hand. Thucydides wanted to persuade his readers that Pericles was not the villain who destroyed Athens, that the blame fell to the politicians who came after him and pandered to the most extreme ambitious of the common citizens, the politicians who were the ultimate arbiters of policy in Athens's democracy. Some modern historians remain persuaded by Thucydides's portrait of Pericles and the Athenian democracy, but others argue from Thucydides's own testimony that Pericles led Athens into an unnecessary war in the belief that the opportunity had arrived to advance Athenian domination over the whole of the Greek world. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Séries
Œuvres de Thucydides
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War: Essence of Thucydides'… (1993) 396 exemplaires
Thucydide. La Guerre du Péloponnèse, 2 volumes - Texte présenté, traduit et annoté par Denis Roussel (1919) 79 exemplaires
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (2013) 56 exemplaires
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 1 20 exemplaires
A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-beginners 4: Historiography: Thucydides: Events at Pylos and Sphacteria (1998) 17 exemplaires
The Peloponnesian War [selections] (Great Books Foundation) 14 exemplaires
Athenian Disaster in Sicily 9 exemplaires
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5 7 exemplaires
HISTÒRIA DE LA GUERRA DEL PELOPONÉS - LLIBRE II 6 exemplaires
Pericles's Funeral Oration [Greek] 6 exemplaires
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (2021) 5 exemplaires
Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy) (2000) 5 exemplaires
Thucydides, Book 5 5 exemplaires
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 4 4 exemplaires
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books VI and VII: A Companion to the Penguin Translation (Classical… (1998) 3 exemplaires
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury 3 exemplaires
Ιστορίαι: Πελοποννησιακός πόλεμος 3 exemplaires
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 6 2 exemplaires
La grande dune 2 exemplaires
Thucydides II (LCL 109) 2 exemplaires
Thucydides, book 3 2 exemplaires
Thoukudidou Xungraphes 4 = The fourth book of Thucydides 2 exemplaires
Thucydides - Vol. I 2 exemplaires
History: Book I, chapt. 1,2,3,5; book II, chapt. 6,7; book V, chapt. 17; book VI, chapt. 18; book VII, chapt. 23 (1947) 2 exemplaires
La guerra del Pelopponeso (vol. I) 2 exemplaires
Le storie. Volume primo 2 exemplaires
Thucydides III @Book III 2 exemplaires
The Siege of Plataea, from Thucydides Books ii. and iii. (Rivingtons Middle Form Classics) 2 exemplaires
Le storie. Testo greco a fronte. Volume 1 1 exemplaire
La guerra del Peloponneso vol I 1 exemplaire
Història de la Guerra del Peloponés Volum III 1 exemplaire
Le storie. vol. 2 1 exemplaire
The Funeral Oration of Pericles 1 exemplaire
Die Heerfahrt der Athener nach Sizilien 1 exemplaire
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war 1 exemplaire
HISTORIA DE LA GUERRA DEL PELOPONESO - VOLUMS 1-2-3 1 exemplaire
History of the Peloponnesian War (Volume 1); Translated From the Greek of Thucydides (2010) 1 exemplaire
LA GUERRA DE PELOPONESO I- TUCIDIDES - BIBLIOTECA GREDOS - CLASICOS ESENCIALES DE GRECIA Y ROMA TOMO 9 1 exemplaire
The Peloponnesian War. The Thomas Hobbes translation. Edited by David Grene, with an introd. by Bertrand de Jouvenel 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, Volume II: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books III and IV: English Text 1 exemplaire
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros III-IV (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 23) (Spanish… 1 exemplaire
Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros V-VI (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 30) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaire
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 4-5 1 exemplaire
Sull'arte equestre 1 exemplaire
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 1-7 1 exemplaire
Guerre du Péloponèse suivi de Retraite des Dix Mille, La Cyropédie, Du commandement de la cavalerie, Traité… 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, Volume IV: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books VII and VIII: English Text 1 exemplaire
Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges : Ausw. aus d. Gesamtwerk / Thukydides. Hrsg. von Albert Klinz 1 exemplaire
Politische Reden 1 exemplaire
Anabasi (libri quarto e settimo) 1 exemplaire
Historiadores griegos : Herodoto, Tucides, Jenofonte 1 exemplaire
La guerra del Peloponeso II 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 5 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 4 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 3 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, vol. 1 1 exemplaire
Thucydidis Historiae 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del Peloponès, V 1 exemplaire
Història de la guerra del peloponès, III 1 exemplaire
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2 1 exemplaire
Economico 1 exemplaire
La Guerre du Péloponnèse (French Edition) 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Book 2 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, Volume IV: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books VII and VIII: Greek Text 1 exemplaire
Thucydides ; the complete Hobbes translation, with notes and a new introduction by David Grene. 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, book III. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, book VII. Ed. by E.C. Marchant . 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, Book VI. Edited by K.J. Dover. 1 exemplaire
Thoukydidou Xyngraphes D. The fourth book of Thucydides. Edited with notes by C.E. Graves 1 exemplaire
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 2-3 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Bk II 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Bk III 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Bk IV 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Bk VI 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Bk VII 1 exemplaire
Thukydidu syngraphē Mit erklärenden Anmerkungen 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, book I-VII 1 exemplaire
Thucydidis Historiae. 2, Libri 5 - 8 1 exemplaire
Thukydides erklärt von J. Classen, J. Steup 1 exemplaire
Thucydides. Book VI. Edited by E. C. Marchant. Gr 1 exemplaire
Thucydides: The Complete Writings of 1 exemplaire
Thucydides I & VII (2 vois.) 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, books II and III 1 exemplaire
Thukydides V 1 exemplaire
Ho tu Thukydidu polemos peloponnēsiakos. Thucydidis bellum Peloponnesiacum ex edit. Wassii et Dukeri 7 [...] 1 exemplaire
Thukydides IV 1 exemplaire
Thukydides III 1 exemplaire
Thukydides II 1 exemplaire
Speeches from Thucydides 1 exemplaire
Thoukydidēs 1 exemplaire
La guerra del Peloponneso volume secondo 1 exemplaire
Peloponneserkrigen B. 2 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, Vol II. 1 exemplaire
Thoukudidou Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia oktō = Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo 1 exemplaire
Thucydides. Histories, book II 1 exemplaire
Thucydides : with an English translation 1 exemplaire
Thucydides II @Book II 1 exemplaire
Thucydides in Four Volumes 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, With an English Translation, Vol. 1 of 4: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books I and II (Classic… 1 exemplaire
THUCYDIDES. 1 exemplaire
Thucydides Book II 1 exemplaire
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 169) 1 exemplaire
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 7-8 1 exemplaire
Historiarum capita selecta 1 exemplaire
Thucydides, translated into English, to which is prefixed an essay on inscriptions and a note on the geography of… 1 exemplaire
The historians of Greece 1 exemplaire
Thucydides- Volume 1, books 1-3 1 exemplaire
Thukydides - erklärt von J. Classen 1 exemplaire
Thucydidis Historiae; recensuit Carolus Hude 1 exemplaire
Präparation zu Thucydides 1 exemplaire
Thucydidis Historiae; recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Henricus Stuart Jones 1 exemplaire
Hist of the Peloponesian Wars (Ch 1, 2, 8 1 exemplaire
Thucydides book 7 1 exemplaire
Codex Palatinus Heidelbergensis Graecus 252 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Athenian Half-Century 478-431 BC Thucydides I 89-118 (1971) — quelques éditions — 10 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Tucídides
- Nom légal
- Θουκυδίδης Ολόρου Αθηναίος (Ancient Greek)
- Date de naissance
- 0460 BCE (circa)
- Date de décès
- 0395 BCE (circa)
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Athens
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Greece
- Lieu de naissance
- Athens, Greece
- Lieu du décès
- Athens, Greece
- Lieux de résidence
- Athens, Greece
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- general
historian
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Suite et fin donc du récit de l’un des premiers historiens connus à ce jour. Athéniens contre Péléponnésiens, même décors, même combats qu’au cours du premier tome. Des Athéniens gourmands qui veulent conquérir — suite à leurs succès probants — la Sicile sur laquelle ils se cassent les dents après l’avoir parcourue en long en large. Les Syracusains en sont restés les maîtres. Suite à cette première défaite de marque les Athéniens vont échouer de plus en plus leur domination.
Je ne conseillerai pas ce livre à moins d’avoir en face de moi un passioné d’Histoire l’unique public possible à ce genre de récit concit, épuré de toute formule décoratrice résultant une densité sans mesure.
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