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The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War Second Edition, Expanded and Revised

by Thucydides (Author), Paul Woodruff (Author)
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Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his History. Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides’s History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest scholarship.

The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN 978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).
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    1647920159
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1647920159
  3. Edition
    Second Edition, Expanded and Revised
  4. Publisher
    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
  5. Publication date
    November 3, 2021
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
  8. Print length
    296 pages
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"At last—a good way to navigate the choppy waters of Thucydides’s account of the Great War! Woodruff has focused on themes of lasting importance—human nature, justice, and war itself. These have guided his skillful selection of passages and his deft explanatory comments, all in a fast-moving, readable style."
—W. R. Connor, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus, Princeton University

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Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; Second Edition, Expanded and Revised (November 3, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1647920159
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1647920159
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
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As an 'essential' collection, it matched the description well. Could wish that the publisher & author had doubled the length with some accompanying historical contextualization/notes, but... Thanks!
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