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On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Edited and translated by Paul Woodruff

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: Indianapolis | Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company | Year: 1993

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Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | Athens’ Plague | The Debate on Mytilene | The Stasis at Corcyra | The Melian Dialogue | The Sicilian Expedition

Translation of selected passages from the History: Thuc. 1.1 (The Preface), 2-20 (The Archeology), 21-22 (Methodological Chapters), 23 (Causes of the War), 66-88 (Debate at Sparta), 118-124 (Congress at Sparta), 140-146 (Pericles' First Speech); 2.1-8 (Attack upon Plataea), 35-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), 47-54 (Athens' Plague), 55-58 (Military operations of 430), 59-64 (Pericles' Third Speech), 65 (Pericles' Eulogy), 66-70 (Further Events of 430), 71-78 (The Siege of Plataea); 3.37-51 (The Debate on Mytilene), 52-68 (The Platean Debate), 81.2-85 (The Stasis at Corcyra); 4.47.3-48 (The End of the Corcyrean Insurgents), 84.2-87 (The Spartans at Achantus); 5.84-116 (The Melian Dialogue); 6.8-26 (Debate at Athens on the Sicilian Expedition); Books 7-8 (with partial summaries). A second, improved edition was published in 2021 – see Woodruf 2021. 

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• The essential Thucydides. On Justice, Power, and Human Nature. Second Edition expanded and revised. Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Edited and translated by Paul Woodruff