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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI (Paperback, New Ed)
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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at
its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian
Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).
Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias
no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the
statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras. The
spectacle of the armada is memorably described; so is the panic at
Athens when people fear that acts of sacrilege may be alienating
the gods, with Alcibiades himself so implicated that he is soon
recalled. The Book ends with Athens seeming poised for victory;
that will soon change, and a sister commentary on Book 7 is being
published simultaneously. The Introduction discusses the narrative
skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the
history. Considerable help with the Greek is offered throughout the
Commentary.
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