Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.
Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. – c. 395 B.C.) (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due to his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
He has also been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the relations between nations as based on might rather than right. His classical text is still studied at advanced military colleges worldwide, and the Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory.
More generally, Thucydides showed an interest in developing an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plague, genocide (as practised against the Melians), and civil war.
《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》第二卷第二章,叙述了战争刚刚开始的情况。当时双方尚未正式接战,斯巴达人和盟友们陈兵于科林斯地峡,派了一个叫米利西佩斯的人前往雅典,探寻对方在大兵压境的逼迫下是否有和谈的意愿。米利西佩斯来到雅典城外,见到了雅典的市民和官员,却被禁止进城。...
评分正义和利益,这是一对永恒的矛盾。行正义是否一定带来利益?当然不是,而且,恰恰相反,正义往往带来不利——这样的话,为什么还要行正义呢?有没有独立于任何利益的绝对的正义?这本是个哲学问题,却经由一位“历史学家”得到了极为深刻的阐述——修希底德在记叙伯罗奔尼撒战...
评分(原载2012年4月号《文景》) 公元前431年,希腊世界爆发了一场规模空前的战争。战争在两大军事同盟之间展开,一边是以雅典为首的提洛同盟,另一边是以斯巴达为首的伯罗奔尼撒同盟。这两大军事同盟的历史至少要追溯到约半个世纪以前乃至更早。伯罗奔尼撒同盟是斯巴达在伯罗奔...
评分(原载2012年4月号《文景》) 公元前431年,希腊世界爆发了一场规模空前的战争。战争在两大军事同盟之间展开,一边是以雅典为首的提洛同盟,另一边是以斯巴达为首的伯罗奔尼撒同盟。这两大军事同盟的历史至少要追溯到约半个世纪以前乃至更早。伯罗奔尼撒同盟是斯巴达在伯罗奔...
比希罗多德来得踏实 但是少了趣味。。
评分看了1/3
评分驱使着人类社会的是欲望,恐惧和自我利益。全文写作形式多为narrative和speech,唯独melian dialogue采用了颇戏剧手法的dialogue。realpolitik流派鼻祖。值得后读。
评分4.5
评分修昔底德本人对雅典的民主制的评价并不高,他对伯里克利基于公益而采取的策略也并不苛责。他倒是严厉批评伯里克利的继承者们表面上尊重公众,实际上却根本不似伯里克利为公众的公益而谋划。他认为,他们带来了与伯里克利完全不同的结果:在其他和战争显然无关的事务中,私人野心和私人利益引起了一些对于雅典人自己和对于他们的同盟国都不利的政策。成功的话,只会使个人得到名誉和权利;失败,就会使整个雅典作战的力量受到损失。之所以会造成这种情况,是因为伯里克利的地位,能够尊重人民的自由,同时又能够控制他们。因为他从来没有从不良的动机出发来追求权力,虽然雅典在名义上是民主政治,事实上权力是在第一个公民手中。但是他的继承人彼此都是平等的,每个人都想居于首要地位,他们采取笼络群众的手段,结果他们丧失了对公众事务的实际领导权。
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