The Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides’ Pessimism

Pouncey, Peter R.  The Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides' Pessimism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

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Peter Pouncey presents for us and for the gods the mind of Thucydides as an historian and writer. Pouncey gives us an amazing reading of Thucydides’ amazing reading of the confused experience of wartime events. He nails down for us Thucydides’ lasting lessons.Pouncey’s Thucydides won the Lionel Trilling Prize.

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