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Περικλέους λόγος ἐπιτάφιος ὑπο θουκυδίδου συγγραφείς. — The funeral Oration of Pericles translated out of Thucydides by Thomas Hobbes

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: Oxford | Publisher: Oxford University Press | Year: 1929

Greek Text: no

Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), philosopher, educated at Oxford and later a tutor to aristocratic families, best known for his political philosophy. Influenced by thinkers like Galileo and Descartes, Hobbes developed a materialistic and mechanistic view of the world. During the English Civil War, he fled to France, where he wrote Leviathan (1651), his most famous work, which laid the foundation for modern political theory and social contract philosophy. Upon returning to England, he remained influential despite ongoing controversy over his views on religion and politics. The first and the last works he published are translations of Greek authors: Thucydides (1629) and Homer (1673-1677). ODNB

Reprint of Hobbes' 1629 translation of Thuc. 2.35-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration). Commemorative plaquette to mark the tercentenary of Hobbes' first major publication.

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Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire

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Περικλέους λόγος ἐπιτάφιος ὑπο θουκυδίδου συγγραφείς. — The funeral Oration of Pericles translated out of Thucydides by Thomas Hobbes

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