Thucydides The Reinvention of History

Name: Thucydides The Reinvention of History
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ISBN: 9780143118299

ISBN-10: 0143118293

ISBN-13: 9780143118299

Edition: 2010

Authors: Donald Kagan

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The bestselling author of The Peloponnesian Warexamines Thucydides as the first modern historian. Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now, Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides, the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries, in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery, a moving tribute, and a revelatory meditation on the practice of…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594



Introduction



Thucydides the Revisionist



Causes of the War-Corcyra



Causes of the War-From Corcyra to the Megarian Decree



The Strategy of Pericles



Was Periclean Athens a Democracy?



Cleon's Lucky Victory at Pylos



Thucydides and Cleon at Amphipolis



The Decision for a Sicilian Expedition



Who Was Responsible for the Sicilian Disaster?


Conclusion


Notes


Index