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Thucydides and the shaping of history /

Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greenwood, Emily (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2006.
Colección:Classical literature and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Whose Contemporary?; 2. Point of View and Vantage Point; 3. Temporal and Spatial Perspectives; 4. Speaking the Truth; 5. New Theatres of War: Book 8 and Sophocles' Philoctetes; 6. Reading Thucydides with Lucian; Notes; Appendices; 1. Timeline; 2. Structure of the History; 3. Maps; Bibliography; Index of Passages; A; D; G; H; L; P; S; T; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z.