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In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter Rawlings contends that Thucydides consciously divided the war into two parallel ten-year conflicts with a period of nominal peace in the middle. Originally …
Thucydides, the patron saint of realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Herodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual …
Thucydides, the patron saint of realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Herodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual …
"Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the conceit that Western historiography is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he …
"Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the conceit that Western historiography is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he …
Thucydides & Sparta
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"This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable discrepancies between his assessment of Athens and that found in tragedy, funeral orations and public art. Mills explores the contradiction between Athenian a…