TY  - GEN
T1  - Thucydides : an introduction for the common reader
A1  - Zagorin, Perez
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, NJ ; Woodstock
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn519479461
AB  - This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin explains, is far more than a mere chronicle of the conflict between Athens and Sparta, the two superpowers of Greece in the fifth century BCE. It is also a remarkable story of politics, decision-making, the uses of power, and the.
OP  - 190
NO  - Originally published: 2005.
CN  - DF229.T6 Z34 2009eb
SN  - 9781400826797
SN  - 1400826799
SN  - 128208691X
SN  - 9781282086913
SN  - 9780691138800
SN  - 069113880X
KW  - Thucydides. : History of the Peloponnesian War.
KW  - Thucydide : Pensée politique et sociale.
KW  - Thucydide. : Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse.
KW  - History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
KW  - Greece : History : Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. : Historiography.
KW  - Greece.
KW  - Regions & Countries : Europe.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - Grèce : Histoire : 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) : Historiographie.
KW  - HISTORY : Ancient.
KW  - HISTORY : Ancient : Greece.
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Greece
KW  - 431-404 B.C
KW  - History
ER  -