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The life and times of Thucydides

By Jim , Thucydides;Whiting

Book information

Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Year
2009
ISBN
9781584156987, 9781612288796, 1612288790
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5551489 bytes)
Series
Biography from ancient civilizations
Pages
48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
431-404 B.C. -- Historiography -- Juvenile literatHistorians;Historians--Greece;Historiography;Elect

Description

A biography of Thucydides with special attention paid to his work "History of the Peloponnesian war.";Surrender at Syracuse -- Fyinfo: the rise of Athens -- The prelude to war -- Fyinfo: Athens -- The elephant and the whale -- Fyinfo: Pericles' funeral oration and Gettysburg -- The cost of overconfidence -- Fyinfo: Euripides -- The end of the war -- Fyinfo: Socrates and Greek political beliefs.

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