Thucydide, Guerre du Peloponnese. Tome III
Livres VI, VII, VIII
edited and translated by Louis Bodin, Jacqueline de Romilly and Raymond Weil
En composant La Guerre du Peloponnese, l’historien athenien Thucydide n’entendait pas seulement faire le recit du conflit qui, de 431 a 404 avant notre ere, avait oppose les deux plus puissantes cites grecques, Athenes et Sparte, mais aussi procurer a ses lecteurs un enseignement pour toujours . Il ne s’agissait pas seulement d’etablir les faits de la facon la plus sure, mais encore d’en eclairer le sens par les discours pretes aux differents protagonistes. En suivant l’ordre chronologique, et en menant une enquete contradictoire, Thucydide a pose les fondements de la methode historique: d’abord rechercher la verite, ensuite degager la logique des evenements. Livres VI a VIII: c’est Alcibiade qui domine la fin du recit de Thucydide. Brillant orateur, ambitieux, c’est lui qui entraine Athenes dans l’expedition de Sicile qui s’achevera par la reddition catastrophique de la flotte et de l’armee athenienne. A Athenes, l’oligarchie des Quatre Cents s’effondrera devant l’opposition des Cinq Mille. Le recit prend fin abruptement, sans qu’ait ete evoquee la restauration de la democratie.
- Introduction by Claude Mosse
- Edited and translated by Louis Bodin
- Edited and translated by Jacqueline de Romilly
- Edited and translated by Raymond Weil
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