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A War Like No Other
Victor Davis Hanson · 初版 2005 年
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“Hanson刻画了雅典与斯巴达在陆地与海洋、城市与乡村交战的方式，并详述了他们对常规与非常规战术的全面运用，从围攻到定点暗杀、酷刑和恐怖主义手段。他还评估了如Pericles和Lysander等将领、包括Aristophanes在内的艺术家，以及包括Sophocles和Plato在内的哲学家所发挥的关键作用。”“Hanson对事件与人物的分析引发了诸多疑问：雅典与斯巴达是否就像美国与苏联这两个拼死决战的超级大国？是否……
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Victor Davis Hanson 凭借努力和运气，将他的斯坦福古典学博士学位转化为了一段成功的职业生涯，身兼古典学者、军事历史学家、专栏作家和保守派名嘴数职。我刚读完《A War Like no Other》http://www.amazon.com/War-Like-Other-Athenians-Peloponnesian...，我很推荐这本书，但我觉得他写这个并不奇怪。即便是努力拼搏，绝大多数文科毕业生也不会见到……
Victor Davis Hanson, through hard work and luck, has parlayed his Stanford Classics PhD into a successful career as classicist, military historian, columnist, and conservative pundit. I just finished A War Like no Other http://www.amazon.com/War-Like-Other-Athenians-Peloponnesian... which I recommend, but I don't think it's odd for him to write this. Even with hard work most folks with liberal arts degrees won't see…
……在雅典导致了各种各样的灾难，因为民众极易被阿尔西比亚德斯（Alcibiades）这类煽动家左右，从而导致了像伯罗奔尼撒战争中西西里远征这样灾难性的对外冒险（《A War Like No Other》在这方面是一本好书）。这绝不是我们应该效仿的模式。我更喜欢有代议中介的民主形式（尽管它有走向寡头制的倾向），因为至少它能遏制乌合之众的暴民统治。
…in Athens led to all kind of disasters as the crowd was easily swayed by demagogues like Alcibiades, leading to disastrous foreign adventures like the sicillian expedition in the Peloponnesian war (A war like no other is a great book on this). It's hardly a model we should emulate. I prefer the mediated kind of democracy (in spite of the tendency to oligarchy) as at least it tempers the rule of the mob.
既然你提到了希腊人，任何对古希腊有一丁点兴趣的人都应该读读 Victor Davis Hanson 写的《A War Like No Other》。它对伯罗奔尼撒战争的记述极其引人入胜。里面还有一章专门讲攻城战。
Since you mentioned the Greeks, anyone with the slightest interest in Ancient Greece should read “A War Like No Other” by Victor Davis Hanson. It’s a fascinating account of the Peloponnesian War. There’s a chapter on siege warfare.