Author of illusions : Thucydides' rewriting of the history of the Peloponnesian War /

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Pericles, famed general and foremost political leader of Athens during her glory days of the 5th century, brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire almost single-handedly. This truth, obvious to contemporary Greeks, is today not generally understood, and we have Thucydides and his History of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luginbill, Robert D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Temas:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Historiae.
431-404 B.C.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Classical history / classical civilisation.
Military history.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Historiography.
Peloponnesischer Krieg
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Historiography.
Greece > History > Errors, inventions, etc.
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) > Historiographie.
Greece.
Grekland > historia > historiografi > 431-404 f. Kr. (peloponnesiska kriget)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Pericles, famed general and foremost political leader of Athens during her glory days of the 5th century, brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire almost single-handedly. This truth, obvious to contemporary Greeks, is today not generally understood, and we have Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War to thank for the confusion. That Thucydides, a fierce partisan of Pericles and a soldier exiled for his own military misadventures, should wish to reinvent the history of tha ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 277 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index.
ISBN:9781443827775
1443827770
1283142295
9781283142298

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