History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III: Books 5-6 (Loeb Classical Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674991222 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-08 |
| Language | : | Ancient Greek |
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It's Greek and not just to me. Translating Thucydides is notoriously difficult, so if you're serious about understanding him, this book (and the other volumes) are indispensible -- even if, like me, you don't read Greek.Just one complaint: it's durn expensive.
So his work was left unfinished and as a whole unrevised. The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396. His story of the final conflict of 413–404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing with the year 411. He had been composing his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and others. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war—that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was able to obs
460 BC400 BC) was a general who was exiled for his failure to defend the Greek city of Amphipolis in Thrace. He died in 1986. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He taught in Egypt and England, and was Director of the British Institute, Athens, from 1945 to 1947. He died in 1986. M. I. During his exile, he began compiling histories and accounts of the war fro
. I. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. M. He has written poems, novels and critical essays, has worked on films and broadcasting, and has translated many works, of which Xenophon s History of My Time and The Persian Expedition, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War, and Plutarch s Lives (under the title Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays have been published in Penguin Classics.M. He died in 1986. 460 BC400 BC) was a general who was exiled for his failure to defend the Greek city of Amphipolis in Thrace. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. During his