History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume II，Books 3-4（Loeb Classical Library）

基本信息

Edited by：Thucydides

Publisher：Harvard University Press

Published：1 July 1989

Language：English

Format Hardback：464 pages

ISBN：100674991214

ISBN：139780674991217

Weight：350 g

Dimensions：170 x 115 x 25（mm）

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

雅典的修昔底德大約生於公元前471年，他是最偉大的歷史學家之一。他見證了雅典在伯里克利的偉大領導下崛起。公元前430年，伯羅奔尼撒戰爭第二年，他感染了可怕的瘟疫，並倖免於難。後來，在423年，作為將軍，他沒能從敵人手中拯救安非波里，因此蒙羞。他沒有在大量的自我辯護中講述這一點，而是在他關於戰爭歷史的一句話中——他被流放了20年。他可能住在他在色雷斯的土地上，但能夠觀察戰爭中某些戰役的雙方，並在404年雅典戰敗後回到了雅典。他一直在根據自己和他人的第一手資料，詳細地撰寫他那著名的歷史，其中包括希望與恐懼，勝利與災難。

這場戰爭實際上是三場衝突，第一場之後是一場不確定的和平;而修昔底德在396年之前死亡到來時並沒有將它們統一為一個賬户。他關於第一次衝突的歷史(431-421年)已接近完成;當戰爭蔓延到西西里島並演變成一場衝突(415-413)時，修昔底德仍在研究這個問題，同樣在他的可怕而輝煌的記錄中完成，雖然不適合整體。他關於413-404年的最後衝突的故事在411年的時候中斷了(在一句話中間)。所以他的作品沒有完成，整體上也沒有修改。然而，在精彩的描述和深刻的洞察力方面，這段歷史無人能敵。

修昔底德的勒布古典圖書館版共四卷。

Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war--that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He had been composing his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and others.

The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396. His history of the first conflict, 431-421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict (415-413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record, though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict of 413-404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing with the year 411. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole unrevised. Yet in brilliance of de*ion and depth of insight this history has no superior.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four volumes.

作者簡介

修昔底德大約誕生於公元前460年。公元前431年伯羅奔尼撒戰爭爆發時，他參加了一小部分。"伯羅奔尼撒戰爭"是他所描述的那段時期唯一倖存下來的資料來源。幾個世紀以來，一些編年史上的不一致一直在學者之間引起爭議。

Thucydides was born probably about 460BC. He took a small part in the Peloponnesian War when it broke out in 431BC. 'The Peoloponnesian War' is the only surviving source for much of the period that he describes. Some of the chronological inconsistencies have been the cause of controversy among scholars for centuries.