Author of Illusions : Thucydides' Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War
Robert Dean. Luginbill
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Newcastle upon Tyne : : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (289 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. - Pericles, famed general and foremost political leader of Athens during her glory days of the 5th century, brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire almost single-handedly. This truth, obvious to contemporary Greeks, is today not generally understood, and we have Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War to thank for the confusion. That Thucydides, a fierce partisan of Pericles and a soldier exiled for his own military misadventures, should wish to reinvent the history of tha...
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| ISBN | 9781443826495
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