Thucydides on Politics : Back to the Present (Hardcover)

Preface; Chronology; 1. The text; 2. Writing power: Athens in Greece, 478?435; 3. Explaining the war: stated reasons, 435?432; 4. Explaining the war: true reasons, 435?432; 5. Judgements, 431?430; 6. Absent strategies, 430?428; 7. Speech and other events, 428?427; 8. Meaning and opportunity, 426?424; 9. Necessities, 424; 10. Interests, 423?421; 11. Emotion in deed, 420?416; 12. Purposes and decisions, 415; 13. Character and circumstance, 414?413; 14. One war, 413?411; 15. Back to the present; Synopsis of the text.