Zagorin, Perez: Thucydides

An Introduction for the Common Reader. A concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides. The first half of the book discusses the intellectual and historical background to Thucydides' work and its method, structure, and view of the causes of the war. The following chapters deal with Thucydides' portrayal of the Athenian leader Pericles and his account of some of the main episodes of the war, such as the revolution in Corcyra and the Athenian invasion of Sicily. The book concludes with an insightful discussion of Thucydides as a thinker and philosophic historian. XIII,190 Seiten, broschiert (Princeton University Press 2009) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, Kanten leicht bestoßen/clean text pages, minor traces of use, edges slightly bumped

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