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Thucydides (Paperback)
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Thucydides (Paperback)
Series: Ancients in Action
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Thucydides was labelled the 'greatest historian that ever lived' by
Macauley and no study of Classical Greece is complete without
encountering his history of the Peloponnesian War, the greatest war
of Greeks against Greeks in the late fifth century BCE, which ended
in the fall of Athens. This concise introductory guide sets
Thucydides in context as a Greek historian writing about the
Peloponnesian War; as an intellectual in the era of the 'sophists',
who were willing to question a variety of traditional assumptions;
and as an upper-class Athenian who lived through and was actively
involved in the Peloponnesian War as a general. Including a survey
and summary of Thucydides' work, P. J. Rhodes explores the
principles and practices of historiography which Thucydides
originated and implemented throughout his History: his narrative
insight, an almost scientific judgment and exposition of sources
and prejudices, and a strictly defined and authoritative view of
what was required in a history of a war. In addition to examining
Thucydides' work, the volume provides an overview of the social,
political and intellectual contexts Thucydides was writing in, and
looks at his impact in antiquity and beyond, from forming modern
concepts of impartial history to his effect on popular culture.
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