A New History of the Peloponnesian War

A New History of the Peloponnesian War, History Ebooks

Book Detail : 

Paperback: 320 pages

Language: English

ISBN-10: 140512251X

ISBN-13: 978-1405122511

File Size : 2.8 Mb | File Format : PDF

Book Description :

This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian.

• A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta by an established scholar
• Offers an original interpretation of how and why the war began
• Weaves in the contemporary evidence of Aristophanes in order to give readers a new sense of how the war affected the individual
• Discusses the practicalities and realities of the war
• Examines the blossoming of culture and intellectual achievement in Athens despite the war
• Challenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of the war

Review

“An insightful, highly readable history of the first all-out war in western history. Tritle knows Greek history and he knows what war does to soldiers and civilians alike.”
Tom Palaima, University of Texas at Austin
“Not another paraphrase of Thucydides, Tritle's sensitive new history of the great war between Athens and Sparta marshals the literary and material evidence to explore the human and societal experience, showing once again that military history extends far beyond the battlefield.”
Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary

“Swift narrative, mastery of modern scholarship, and unusual integration of classical literature. Like his great source Thucydides, the author was a soldier, and the terrible brutality of war is immanent.”
Mortimer Chambers, UCLA

“By helping us understand broadly and deeply the human and social dimension of this war, Tritle’s book brilliantly justifies its ambitious title of a ‘new history’ of an often-treated old war.”
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Brown University

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