{"product_id":"thucydides-hardcover-journal","title":"Thucydides - Hardcover Journal","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery great thinker kept notes. This one honors the historian who refused to let myth stand in the place of fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis hardcover journal features a bold portrait of Thucydides on the front cover and a biographical tribute on the back - the story of the man behind the art, printed where you'll see it every time you pick it up. Part of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/great-minds-of-classical-greece\" title=\"Great Minds of Classical Greece\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreat Minds of Classical Greece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e collection. Designed for the work of serious thinking - research, analysis, study sessions, the pursuit of uncomfortable truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THUCYDIDES (c. 460–400 BC)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThucydides didn't write history to celebrate heroes or honor the gods. He wrote it to tell the truth - and in doing so set a standard for historical inquiry that has never been surpassed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Peloponnesian War\u003c\/i\u003e documents the 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta with a precision and analytical rigor that feels startlingly modern. He interviewed participants, weighed conflicting accounts, and was scrupulous about distinguishing between what he witnessed and what he was told. When he reconstructed speeches, he said so - and explained his method. No historian before him had done anything like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was also a participant in the war he documented. Exiled from Athens for twenty years after a military failure at Amphipolis, he used that distance to observe the conflict with the detachment of someone who had nothing left to lose. The result is a work of such penetrating clarity about power, democracy, and human nature that military strategists, political scientists, and statesmen still read it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis observation that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must remains one of the most unsentimental sentences ever written. Twenty-four centuries later, it still stings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT FEATURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover with matte laminate finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull wraparound portrait print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographical tribute printed on back cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlexible casewrap binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerforated pages for clean tear-out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e150 lined pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWipe clean gently with a dry cloth if needed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA tool for your ideas. A tribute to his.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Printify","offers":[{"title":"Journal","offer_id":47158646964391,"sku":"30382285035083951550","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2249\/5399\/files\/thucydides-hardcover-journal-Greek-historian-illustration.jpg?v=1774065837","url":"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/products\/thucydides-hardcover-journal","provider":"LegendSketch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}