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The Reinvention of History
Viking Adult
November 2009
On Sale: October 29, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0670021296
EAN: 9780670021291
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
The grandeur and power of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War
have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for
two and a half millennia, and the work and its author have
had an enduring influence on those who think about
international relations and war, especially in our own time.
In Thucydides, Donald Kagan, one of our foremost classics
scholars, illuminates the great historian and his work both
by examining him in the context of his time and by
considering him as a revisionist historian. Thucydides took a spectacular leap into modernity by
refusing to seek explanations for human behavior in the will
of the gods, or even in the will of individuals, looking
instead at the behavior of men in society. In this context,
Kagan explains how The Peloponnesian War differs
significantly from other accounts offered by Thucydides'
contemporaries and stands as the first modern work of
political history, dramatically influencing the manner in
which history has been conceptualized ever since.
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