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Thucydides : The Peloponnesian War Book II - Thucydides 431 BC

Thucydides

The Peloponnesian War Book II

By: Thucydides 431 BC, Jeffrey S. Rusten, J. S. Rusten (Editor)

Paperback | 29 May 1989

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The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-400 B.C.E.) called a "convulsion" affecting all humankind. With the detachment of a clinician and the dramatic skill of a poet, Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others. The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts; even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened. The loftiness of its ideals, its painstaking research, and its beauty of expression have made the History of the Peloponnesian War a work that is in the author's own words, "a possession for all time."
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'Never before has the reader had explained to him with such clarity and penetration exactly what Thucydides' Greek means and why ... Rusten's treatment of the Funeral Speech ... is a tour de force ... For those who want really to get to grips with Thucydides' language and are qualified to do so, Rusten is indispensable.' JACT Review

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