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Availability:In StockContributor:Christopher PellingSeries:Cambridge Greek and Latin ClassicsPublish date:2022-03-03Pages:370
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316630211ISBN-10:1316630218UPC:9781316630211Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCVVKFETWA
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI
In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras....
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316630211ISBN-10:1316630218UPC:9781316630211Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCVVKFETWA
Pelling, Christopher: - Christopher Pelling is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. His books include, most recently, Herodotus and the Question Why (2019) and, earlier, Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000); Plutarch and History (2002); and Twelve Voices from Ancient Greece and Rome (with Maria Wyke, 2014). He has also written commentaries on Plutarch's Caesar...
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