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Krieg ist eine Tatsache und ihn zu dokumentieren eine wichtige Aufgabe. Der antike griechische Historiker Thukydides schilderte den Peloponnesischen Krieg, der im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. das klassische Zeitalter Athens beendete. Damit überlieferte er das erste Geschichtswerk überhaupt und prägte bis heute die Art und Weise, wie über Kriege nachgedacht wird. Das ist heute leider noch immer geboten, denn wer einen Krieg beenden will, muss zunächst seine Ursachen und inneren Zusammenhänge verstehen lernen. Thukydides zeigt, wie das gehen kann. Das Standardwerk »Das erste Blatt des Thukydides ist der einzige Anfang aller wahren Geschichte« Immanuel Kant Thukydides gilt als der einflussreichste antike Geschichtsschreiber »Der peloponesische Krieg« ist das bedeutendste Geschichtswerk der antiken Literatur. Thukydides erkennt die Stärken und Schwächen der Verantwortlichen für diesen ganz Griechenland erschütternden Krieg und die zweifelhaften Mechanismen der Politik. »Von der jämmerlichen Schönfärberei der Griechen ins Ideal, die der 'klassisch gebildete' Jüngling als Lohn für seine Gymnasial-Dressur ins Leben davonträgt, kurirt Nichts so gründlich als Thukydides. Man muss ihn Zeile für Zeile umwenden und seine Hintergedanken so deutlich ablesen wie seine Worte: es giebt wenige so hintergedankenreiche Denker.« Friedrich Nietzsche Thukydides ist an vielen Offiziersschulen und Militärakademine bis heute Pflichtlektüre

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"The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides is a classic historical account of the conflict between Sparta and Athens. It is one of the earliest scholarly works of history. "Hellenica," a continuation by Xenophon, details the last seven years of the war and its aftermath, reflecting a personal narrative for a familiar audience.

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).

V Thukydidovom historickom diele nachádzame významnú časť dejín Grécka. Obdobie ktoré popísal vo svojich knihách, nežičilo mieru, naopak, prialo nepriateľstvu Atén a Sparty, ktoré sa vzájomne pustili do nezmieriteľného kolobehu vojen. Atény a Sparta, ktorí roky predtým vybojovali množstvo hrdinských bitiek proti presile Peržanov pri Maratóne, Termopylách, Salamíne či Platajach. Krátke obdobie mieru spísaného medzi Aténami a Spartou nebolo však po vôli drobným sporom ich spojencov. Tí vznietili ohne vášní smerujúcich opäť nezadržateľne k vojne, tentoraz však navzájom medzi Grékmi.

Druhá časť Thukydidovho diela Dejiny peloponézskej vojny obsahuje knihy V–VIII. Udalosti V. knihy sa začínajú v desiatom roku vojny, v ktorom bol medzi Aténami a Spartou uzavretý Nikiov mier. Uzavretím mieru však vojnové udalosti nedostali nadlho oddych. Bojové ambície zvíťazili nad argumentmi života v mieri a vojská oboch strán sa opäť vrhajú do nových, ešte krutejších bojov. Thukydides nám podáva charakteristiky najvýznamnejších osobností zúčastňujúcich sa vojny, poukazuje na klady, ale aj tienisté stránky, ktoré sprevádzali ich život. Ukazuje pozitíva, ale i chyby pri rozhodnutiach, ktoré niekedy znamenali významné víťazstvá, inokedy záhubu celých vojsk. Vykresľuje také osobnosti, ako boli v Aténach Perikles, Demosthenes, Kleon, Alkibiades, Nikias či v Sparte Brasidas, Agis, Gyllipos.

Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking contemporary resonances. This edition seeks to present the author and the text in their proper historical context. The new translation is particularly sensitive to the risks of anachronism, and the notes and extensive reference material provide students with all the necessary historical, cultural and linguistic background they need to engage with the text on its own terms.

Recounts the ancient war between Athens and Sparta in the translation by the seventeenth century British philosopher.