General Course on Ancient Greek Thought: Thucydides
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In 431 BC, the 27-year Peloponnesian War broke out between two major camps within the Greek world. In this far-reaching war, various city-states and people of all colors took turns to appear, making their own choices in various extreme environments. The History of the Peloponnesian War written by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides has become a classic masterpiece of Western history. Thucydides believed that the growing power of Athens aroused fear in Sparta, and that Sparta had to respond to this threat. This logic that there must be a war between an established power and an emerging power is what later generations called the "Thucydides Trap." This book is Professor Zhang Xingang's interpretation of the book "History of the Peloponnesian War". Professor Zhang selected the most important events in the book and sorted out the causes, consequences and internal logic of the Peloponnesian War according to the course of time. He also used this to explore important issues related to the thought and spirit of the ancient Greeks, such as citizen character, city-state government, power and justice, revealing Thucydides' in-depth and complex thinking on the "human condition".
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