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Thucydides

 
9780140440393: History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140440399 ISBN 13: 9780140440393
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom Holland

The long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, and in this detailed, first-hand contemporary account he writes as both a soldier and a historian. He applies a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling a factual record of a ruinous conflict that would eventually destroy the Athenian empire.

Translated by Rex Warner with an introduction and notes by M. I. Finley

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THUCYDIDES was born probably about 460BC. He took a small part in the Peloponnesian War when it broke out in 431BC. 'The Peoloponnesian War' is the only surviving source for much of the period that he describes. Some of the chronological inconsistencies have been the cause of controversy among scholars for centuries.
Rex Warner 1905-1986 was a classical scholar of Wadham College, Oxford. M. I. Finley was a lecturer in Classics and then Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge. He died in 1986

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1974
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140440399
ISBN 13 
9780140440393
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
656
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