The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides’ Pessimism ISBN: 9780231887052 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Attempts to reach the mind of the historian and writer Thucydides, with a particular focus on his pessimism as he works his transformation of the confused experience of events in wartime into an ordered history with lasting lessons for posterity.