Platias, Athanasios G., 1956-

Thucydides on strategy : grand strategies in the Pelopennesian War and their relevance today / Athanassios G. Platias & Constantinos Koliopoulos. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. - xiv, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-188) and index.

Chronology -- Grand strategy : a framework for analysis -- Athens and Sparta : power structures, early conflict and the causes of war -- Periclean grand strategy -- Spartan grand strategy -- Thucydides and strategy in perspective -- Epilogue -- Annex: Strategic concepts in Thucydides.

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Thucydides--Criticism and interpretation.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides--Political and social views.


Strategy--Historiography.


Greece--History--Historiography.--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.

938.05 / PLA 2010