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Book Thucydides : the reinvention of history / Donald Kagan.
Publication year: 2010.
Language: English
Call Number DF229.T6 K34 2010
Media class: Book
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A. : Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143118299 0143118293
Notes:
Includes index.
Extent: 257 pages : maps ; 22 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."
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.
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