Para el político ateniense homónimo, véase Tucídides .Tucídides fue un historiador y militar ateniense. Su obra Historia de la Guerra del Peloponeso recuenta la historia de la guerra del siglo V a. C. entre Esparta y Atenas hasta el año 411 a. C. Tucídides ha sido considerado como el padre de la "historiografía científica" debido a sus estrictos estándares de recopilación de pruebas y de sus análisis en términos de causa-efecto sin referencia a la intervención de dioses, tal y como él mismo subraya en su introducción a su obra.[1]
También ha sido considerado el padre de la escuela del realismo político, que valora las relaciones entre las naciones en función de su poder, y no en razón de la justicia.[2] Su texto todavía se estudia en academias militares avanzadas de todo el mundo, y el Diálogo de los melios continúa siendo una importante obra en el estudio de la teoría de las relaciones internacionales.
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“Reconocer la pobreza no deshonra a un hombre, pero sí no hacer ningún esfuerzo para salir de ella”
Historia de la Guerra del Peloponeso 2.40
Discurso fúnebre de Pericles.
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013. ISBN 978-60-73116-31-2.
“Quien puede recurrir a la violencia no tiene necesidad de recurrir a la justicia.”
Fuente: Zavalía, Clodomiro. Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales. Colaborador Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, 1953, p. 235.
Fuente: Frases célebres de hombres célebres. Compilado por Manuel Pumarega. 3ª Edición. Editorial México, 1949, p. 164.
Fuente: Pumarega, Manuel. Frases célebres de hombres célebres. 3.ª Edición. Editorial México, 1949, p. 64.
Fuente: Citado en FEPADE difunde, números 7-9. Editor PGR, FEPADE, Fiscalía Especializada para la Atención de Delitos Electorales, 2005, p. 32.
“they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.”
Book VI, 6.34; "they have abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly" ( trans. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm Benjamin Jowett)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI
Variant translations:<p>But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Thuc.+2.40.3<p>And they are most rightly reputed valiant, who though they perfectly apprehend both what is dangerous and what is easy, are never the more thereby diverted from adventuring. (translation by Thomas Hobbes http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=771&chapter=90127&layout=html&Itemid=27)<p>
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Variant translation: "...the search for truth strains the patience of most people, who would rather believe the first things that come to hand." Translation by Paul Woodruff.
Book I, 1.20-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.”
Book VI, 6.34-[9]; "the true contempt of an invader is shown by deeds of valour in the field" ( trans. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm Benjamin Jowett)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Contexto: Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
Book II, 2.35-[1]-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Contexto: I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Contexto: Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
“Ignorance produces rashness, reflection timidity”
Book II, 40.3
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
“I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire…”
Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
Book IV, 4.17-[4]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book IV
Book V, 5.105-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
Book III, 3.39-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
Book VII, 7.57-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII
“here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”
Book V, 5.105-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
A summary of Athenian statements to the Melians, Book V, 5.89-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
Book I, 1.78-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Book VI, 6.22-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI
Book I, 1.1-[1] (opening lines...)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Book VII, 7.71-[3] (See also: Fog of war..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII
Book V, 5.69-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
Book III, 3.46-[4]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
Book I, 1.34-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“the freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.”
Book I, 1.84-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Book I, 1.13-[1] (See also: Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Introduction p. 7)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Book III, 3.45-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III
Book VI, 6.23-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI
Book VII, 7.75-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII
