Global Thucydides

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Project | Global Thucydides
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Entry | How to Think About War. An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides, Speeche…

How to Think About War. An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides, Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Selected, Translated and Introduced by Johanna Hanink

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: Princeton (New Jersey) | Publisher: Princeton University Press | Year: 2019

Greek Text: yes

Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | The Debate on Mytilene | The Melian Dialogue

Translation of selected speeches from the History: 1.140-144 (Pericles' First Speech); 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration); 2.60-64 (Pericles' Third Speech); 3.37-49 (The Mytilenean Debate); 5.85-113 (The Melian Dialogue); 6.8.4-24 (The Sicilian Debate). The translation is from the Greek text established by Stuart Jones-Powell 1942.