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Book Thucydides : the reinvention of history / Donald Kagan.
Publication year: 2009.
Language: English
Call Number DF229.T6 K34 2009
Media class: Book
Publisher: New York : Viking
ISBN: 9780670021291 0670021296
Extent: 257 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description:
Reassesses the life and contributions of the ancient revisionist historian to place him in the context of his time, citing the pivotal influence of his refusal to credit the gods or individuals with the societal events documented in "The Peloponnesian War."
Thucydides the revisionist -- Causes of the war : Corcyra -- Causes of the war : from Corcyra to Megarian Greece -- 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?
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