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Author | : Christopher Pelling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316829820 |
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In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415–413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras. The spectacle of the armada is memorably described; so is the panic at Athens when people fear that acts of sacrilege may be alienating the gods, with Alcibiades himself so implicated that he is soon recalled. The Book ends with Athens seeming poised for victory; that will soon change, and a sister commentary on Book 7 is being published simultaneously. The Introduction discusses the narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history. Considerable help with the Greek is offered throughout the Commentary.
Author | : Christopher Pelling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107176913 |
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Edition of the former part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).
Author | : Christopher Pelling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107176921 |
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Edition of the latter part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146558157X |
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Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416590870 |
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Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1989-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521339292 |
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The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. Professor Rusten's commentary aims to assist the students to learn to read Thucydides. It scrutinises not only the standard historical context but also the literary and philosophical one, and devotes special attention to the exceptionally complex structures and techniques of language which make Thucydides the most difficult as well as most profound of ancient historians. The introduction surveys biographical interpretations of the text, suggests a new approach to fictive elements in the speeches, and sketches the chief features of Thucydidean style. This edition is intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools (both introduction and commentary are meant to be accessible even to less advanced students of Greek), but any Greek scholar will find it rewarding.
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Cawkwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2006-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134708432 |
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Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible. This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian Empire. Cawkwell's comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.
Author | : Donald Kagan |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801467241 |
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Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.