Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
by:
Donald Kagan (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143118299 (0143118293)
Publish date: October 26th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 257
Edition language: English
The basic argument here is that Thukydides may well be decently reliable in his reportage, but that his interpretation of the events reported is subject to challenge on numerous counts, such as the causes of the Peloponnesion War, the effectiveness of Pericles, the meaning of Athenian democracy, the...
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