Restoring Thucydides: Testing Familiar Lessons and Deriving New Ones

218 Pages·2020·2.616 MB·English

by  Andrew R. Novo, Jay M. Parker

Restoring Thucydides

Restoring Thucydides
Testing Familiar Lessons
and
Deriving New Ones
Andrew R. Novo and Jay M. Parker

Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security Series
General Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn
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“My work is not a piece of writing designed to
meet the taste of an immediate public,
but was done to last forever.” —Thucydides, 1.22 (W)

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For all teachers, especially my mother and father,
who have worked to gain knowledge, and to share it. —ARN

For Corinne, who bore and endured this for so long.
And for Mom, who always knew this would happen. —JMP

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.......................................................... ix
A Note on Citations......................................................... xi
A Timeline of the Peloponnesian War.................................. xiii
Introduction: Thucydides Lost.............................................. 1
Chapter 1: Trap or Talisman?............................................. 21
Chapter 2: The Polarity Trap.............................................. 43
Chapter 3: Power and Fear................................................. 73
Chapter 4: Allies, Alignments, and the Nature of War................ 101
Chapter 5: Thucydides and Realism..................................... 119
Chapter 6: “For All Time?”............................................... 159
Chapter 7: Thucydides Found............................................ 171
Bibliography................................................................ 181
Index......................................................................... 191
About the Authors........................................................ 195
Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS)
Series............................................................... 197