description: Peter Pouncey presents for us and for the gods the mind of Thucydides as an historian and writer. Pouncey gives us an amazing reading of Thucydides' amazing reading of the confused experience of wartime events. He nails down for us Thucydides' lasting lessons.Pouncey's Thucydides won the Lionel Trilling Prize.
language: English
title: The Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides' Pessimism
titlecomplete: The Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides' Pessimism
ratings_count: 1
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Lionel Trilling Book Award
publisher: Columbia Univ Pr