[PDF.49yh] Thucydides: Book VI (Greek Texts) (Greek and English Edition)

Thucydides: Book VI (Greek Texts) (Greek and English Edition)

[PDF.sg76] Thucydides: Book VI (Greek Texts) (Greek and English Edition)

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 | #728989 in Books |  Bristol Classical Press |  1999-09-23 |  1999-09-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.2 x5.50l,.60 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A must for any historian|By James|This book is a classic and a must for any historian. Thucydides is the first historian, that I know of, that wrote strictly as a historian or journalist, leaving out myth and religion. This is how he differs from Homeric tales that mix myth with facts making truth cloudy. Thucydides set the standard for all historians that followed him, he stic| |"An old standard that I myself used as a student. Well edited to preserve the "essence" of Thucydides."--Martin Arbagi, Wright State University

"A splendid old translation in a quality paperback format."--E.H. McKinley, Asbury College|

Book VI of Thucydides deals, through its speeches in particular, with Athenian motivation towards sending the great expedition to Sicily, with the attitudes of various factions involved, and with the seeds of the expedition's ultimate disastrous conclusion. It contains memorable sections on Alcibiades, on the Athenians' excitement at the sailing, on the mutilation of the Herms and a digression on the fall of Athenian tyranny a century earlier. This edition, with intro...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Thucydides: Book VI (Greek Texts) (Greek and English Edition)   |  Thucydides. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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