 | Thucydides - 1874 - 738 pagina’s
...department in the last state of perfection ; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel ; those who delayed doing so...Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in Early history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world — I had almost... | |
 | 1922 - 478 pagina’s
...we read the opening sentences of Thucydides, in which he states that "this (the Peloponnesian war) was the greatest movement yet known in history, not...the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world — I had almost said of mankind" — how can we read this without having our minds. thrown forward... | |
 | Bernard Henry Cuneo - 1923 - 144 pagina’s
...department in the last state of perfection; and he could see (6po»v) the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel, those who delayed doing so at...history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large portion of the barbarian world, — and so to speak, of entire mankind. For though the events of remote... | |
 | 1923 - 146 pagina’s
...department in the last state of perfection; and he could see (opim>) the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel, those who delayed doing so at...history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large portion of the barbarian world, — and so to speak, of entire mankind. For though the events of remote... | |
 | Bernard Henry Cuneo - 1923 - 148 pagina’s
...only of the Hellenes, but of a large portion of the barbarian world, — and so to speak, of entire mankind. For though the events of remote antiquity,...not from lapse of time be clearly ascertained, yet according to the evidences, which an enquiry carried on as far back as possible leads me to trust,... | |
 | Douglas C. Lummis - 1996 - 204 pagina’s
...more worthy of relation than any other that had preceded it." Not only is it the greatest war, but "the greatest movement yet known in history, not only...the Hellenes but of a large part of the barbarian world — I had almost said of mankind" (1.1). He does not simply make this point in passing, but argues... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - 2003 - 644 pagina’s
...beginning of the Peloponnesian War that he wrote his work because of the war's "greatness," because "this was the greatest movement yet known in history,...the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world . . . almost mankind." The concern with greatness, so prominent in Greek poetry and historiography,... | |
 | Marshall Sahlins - 2004 - 349 pagina’s
...war, and more worthy of relation than any that preceded it. ... Indeed this was the greatest upheaval yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world — I might almost say, the whole of mankind" (1.1.1—2).' Being similarly situated at the center... | |
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The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation. 