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）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

雅典的修昔底德大约生于公元前471年，他是最伟大的历史学家之一。他见证了雅典在伯里克利的伟大领导下崛起。公元前430年，伯罗奔尼撒战争第二年，他感染了可怕的瘟疫，并幸免于难。后来，在423年，作为将军，他没能从敌人手中拯救安非波里，因此蒙羞。他没有在大量的自我辩护中讲述这一点，而是在他关于战争历史的一句话中——他被流放了20年。他可能住在他在色雷斯的土地上，但能够观察战争中某些战役的双方，并在404年雅典战败后回到了雅典。他一直在根据自己和他人的第一手资料，详细地撰写他那著名的历史，其中包括希望与恐惧，胜利与灾难。

这场战争实际上是三场冲突，第一场之后是一场不确定的和平;而修昔底德在396年之前死亡到来时并没有将它们统一为一个账户。他关于第一次冲突的历史(431-421年)已接近完成;当战争蔓延到西西里岛并演变成一场冲突(415-413)时，修昔底德仍在研究这个问题，同样在他的可怕而辉煌的记录中完成，虽然不适合整体。他关于413-404年的最后冲突的故事在411年的时候中断了(在一句话中间)。所以他的作品没有完成，整体上也没有修改。然而，在精彩的描述和深刻的洞察力方面，这段历史无人能敌。

修昔底德的勒布古典图书馆版共四卷。

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 description and depth of insight this history has no superior.

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

作者简介

修昔底德大约诞生于公元前460年。公元前431年伯罗奔尼撒战争爆发时，他参加了一小部分。"伯罗奔尼撒战争"是他所描述的那段时期唯一幸存下来的资料来源。几个世纪以来，一些编年史上的不一致一直在学者之间引起争议。

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.