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.
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.
十八年前译者在接到翻译西学名著《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》的任务时,心里确实有些忐忑不安,十八年后的今天依然如此。古希腊文明博大精深,对于西方乃至全人类文明贡献巨大,影响深远。译者自知学力不济,难以胜任。因为自己对于希腊的历史和文化,充其量只能算是个初学者。虽然三...
評分有人说,一个国家在能够对外输出价值观之前不可能成为真正的大国。现代人往往赞叹雅典的民主政治与璀璨的文化,惋惜雅典为寡头政治下的斯巴达击败而未能将其光芒普及到全希腊。然而,真实的雅典帝国乃是建立于赤裸裸的暴力之上,关于这一点,无论是对内还是对外,坦率的雅典人...
評分一本名气极大的书,我在两年前到上海出差时偶然看到,本书的印刷质量很好,装帧极佳,虽然标价68大元,昂贵的让人吐血,我还是咬咬牙买了回来。说实在的,两年来,我一直都没看完,而且看的部分也是生吞活剥,不求甚解,完全不能享受到读书的快乐。 也许是个人水平有限吧,我...
評分在大学第一学期的《外交学概论》课上,老师说学这个你们读好三本书就行了,修昔底德的《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》,汉斯摩根索的《国家间政治》和肯尼斯沃尔斯的《人、国家与战争》。当时不知所然,也没想过找来读读。直到今天才算都翻过了,还不敢说读过。 而真正激发我读...
評分驅使著人類社會的是欲望,恐懼和自我利益。全文寫作形式多為narrative和speech,唯獨melian dialogue采用瞭頗戲劇手法的dialogue。realpolitik流派鼻祖。值得後讀。
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