Frasi di Tucidide

Tucidide del demo di Alimunte è stato uno storico e militare ateniese, filosofo politico, uno dei principali esponenti della letteratura greca grazie al suo capolavoro storiografico, La Guerra del Peloponneso.

Questo accurato resoconto sulla grande guerra tra Atene e Sparta è considerato - in termini di modernità - uno dei maggiori modelli narrativi dell'antichità, sicuramente uno dei primi esempi di analisi degli eventi storici secondo il metro della natura umana, con l'esclusione quindi dell'intervento di ogni divinità.

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“Per gli uomini famosi tutta la terra è un sepolcro.”

da Storia della guerra peloponnesiaca Libro II cap. 42

Tucidide Frasi e Citazioni

“[Sui popoli della Sicilia] Già in tempi lontani fu sede di popoli, ed ecco il complessivo registro delle genti che ospitò. L'insediamento umano più antico che la tradizione ricordi fu quello dei Ciclopi e dei Lestrigoni, che occuparono una fascia limitata del paese. Ma sul loro ceppo non posso pronunciarmi, né sulla loro terra d'origine o su quale zona del mondo abbiano poi scelto per emigrarvi. Si stia contenti delle memorie poetiche e dell'opinione che ciascuno, chi da una fonte, chi da un'altra, ha concepito su quelle genti. Subito dopo quelli devono essersi stabiliti sull'isola i Sicani. Costoro anzi, a quanto affermano, avrebbero preceduto i Ciclopi e i Lestrigoni in quanto originari della Sicilia. Ma la verità storica fa giustizia di queste fantasie: erano Iberi, e in Iberia avevano dimora, lungo il corso del Sicano, donde i Liguri li costrinsero ad allontanarsi. Per opera loro l'isola finì col mutare il primitivo nome di Trinacria in quello di Sicania. Nel nostro tempo i Sicani sono ancora stanziati nella zona occidentale della Sicilia. Quando Ilio crollò, un drappello di Troiani fuggitivi, sgusciati dalla rete della flotta Achea, approdarono alle spiagge della Sicilia e fissarono il proprio domicilio a fianco dei Sicani. Le due genti furono designate con il nome comune di Elimi, e i loro centri urbani furono noti come Erice e Segesta. S'aggiunse più tardi e prese sede in quei luoghi anche un nucleo di Focesi che rientrando da Troia fu travolto in quell'epoca da una tempesta e, dopo aver toccato le coste della Libia, di là concluse finalmente la sua corsa in terra di Sicilia.”

Libro VI-II
La guerra del Peloponneso

Tucidide: Frasi in inglese

“they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

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

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

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

“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

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.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

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

“In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book II, 2.35-[1]-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Contesto: 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”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

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…”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

“Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book V, 5.105-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V

“Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or compulsion as the case may be.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book VII, 7.57-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII

“here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book V, 5.105-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V

“It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book I, 1.78-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“their swaying bodies reflected the agitation of their minds, and they suffered the worst agony of all, ever just within the reach of safety or just on the point of destruction.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book VII, 7.71-[3] (See also: Fog of war..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII

“we must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal terrors but to careful administration.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book III, 3.46-[4]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

“the freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book I, 1.84-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an objective, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were established almost everywhere…”

Thucydides Guerra del Peloponneso

Book I, 1.13-[1] (See also: Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Introduction p. 7)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

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