The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Paul Woodruff

The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides, Paul Woodruff

296 pages first pub 1874 (editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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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 viol...

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