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Chance and intelligence in Thucydides

By Lowell , Edmunds

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1975
ISBN
9780674330795, 067433079X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3384241 bytes)
Series
Loeb classical monographs
Pages
243\255
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-05-03 15:39:59
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Description

The first speech of Pericles (1.140-144) -- The speech in oratio obliqua (2.13) -- The funeral oration (2.35-46) -- The third speech of Pericles (2.60-64) -- Comparison of the Perclean with certain traditional concepts of the city -- The Corinthians' analysis of the difference between Sparta and Athens -- Archidamus' analysis and defense of the Spartan constitution -- Spartan analysis of success and failure -- The Spartan character of Nicias -- The technical character of Thucydides' methodology -- Tyche in history.

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