A Commentary on Thucydides
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594634
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594634
Author : H. Don Cameron
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472068470
Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship
Author : Arnold Wycombe Gomme
Publisher :
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN :
Author : David Cartwright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472084197
An essential guide for students
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019927648X
The third and final volume of a commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction.
Author : Blaise Nagy
Publisher : Focus
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
An annotated and illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories with introductory material for all eight books of the Histories, commentary and grammatical notes. This book is a standard text for any college course in reading Thucydides in Greek. It is also suitable for post-intermediate, secondary school students who want to tackle the works of a popular but challenging author.
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199276257
This will be a 3 volume commentary on Thucydides. Appendices will appear in v.3 to be published some years hence.
Author : Martha C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0806164131
Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454–c. 395 b.c.) was an Athenian general and historian. This valuable commentary addresses the most famous part of Thucydides’s narrative: the Sicilian Expedition (books 6–8.1), which resulted in a major defeat for Athens. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, Martha C. Taylor’s student-friendly text is the first single volume in more than a century to focus on the expedition and the first to include the Melian Dialogue (5.84–116), considered the “prelude” to the invasion. Many beginning readers of Thucydides require assistance with the author’s often difficult constructions. In her notes to the text, Taylor breaks down Thucydides’s convoluted sentences and explains them piece by piece. Her notes also explain the author’s many historical and literary references. In her in-depth introduction, Taylor provides students with all the information they need to begin reading Thucydides. She discusses what we know about the Greek author—and what we do not—and she analyzes his unique language and style. To place the Sicilian Expedition in historical context, she summarizes the events leading up to and following the Sicilian Expedition, and she examines important aspects of Athenian democracy, including Thucydides’s presentation of the Athenian boule, the city’s advisory citizen council. In addition to textual and historical commentary, this volume includes three maps; an appendix addressing the epitaph of Perikles (2.65.5–13), in which Thucydides appears to contradict his later presentation of the Sicilian Expedition; source suggestions for student term papers on relevant topics; and a general bibliography. Thucydides’s Melian Dialogue and Sicilian Expedition is designed for use with the Oxford Classical Text of Thucydides, which is available online.
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199562336
A collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. Although most of the chapters have previously appeared in print, many have been extensively rewritten for this volume and all are provided with new prefaces.
Author : Martha Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1139482793
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city exacerbated the Athenians' civil war. Providing a thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides' neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides praises political compromise centered around the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial project itself.