Thucydides : an introduction for the common reader /
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 Wa...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press
2009.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7tb4c |
Table of Contents:
- Thucydides' history and its background
- The subject, method, and structure of Thucydides' history
- Thucydides on the causes of the war
- Thucydides and Pericles
- Scenes from the Archidamian War, Mytilene, Plataea, Corcyra, Pylos
- Dialogue at Melos, the Sicilian expedition
- Endings
- Thucydides as a philosophic historian.