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Author: Christopher Pelling
Publisher:
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1107176913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edition of the former part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).
Author: Christopher Pelling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1316829820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Christopher Pelling
Publisher:
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1107176921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edition of the latter part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 1416590870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 146558157X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-03-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521339292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. Professor Rusten's commentary aims to assist the students to learn to read Thucydides. It scrutinises not only the standard historical context but also the literary and philosophical one, and devotes special attention to the exceptionally complex structures and techniques of language which make Thucydides the most difficult as well as most profound of ancient historians. The introduction surveys biographical interpretations of the text, suggests a new approach to fictive elements in the speeches, and sketches the chief features of Thucydidean style. This edition is intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools (both introduction and commentary are meant to be accessible even to less advanced students of Greek), but any Greek scholar will find it rewarding.
Author: H. Don Cameron
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780472068470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship
Author: George Cawkwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-10-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1134708432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible. This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian Empire. Cawkwell's comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.
