Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII

Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIIISince antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two centuries, the narrative plan of Book

when thirteen Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli police during political demonstrations

The Little Old Lady Killer presents a fascinating analysis of what serial killing—often considered “killing for the pleasure of killing”—represents to us

the result of a decade's labor

Groundbreaking and evocative

Digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop make it possible to display the information in images brilliantly and clearly - at the same time the line between appropriate and inappropriate manipulation is not always easy to draw

The dramatic assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo opened the door to a tragic struggle which concluded with the disintegration of the curious dual empire of Austria­ Hungary and radically altered the political configuration of central Europe

when the war in Vietnam was at its peak

A must-read for scholars of intellectual history

The chapters are thematically organized into four sections

Electorally

and where stable communities did grow up

die frühen Drucke