Thucydides : An Introduction for the Common Reader

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Thucydides : An Introduction for the Common ReaderThis book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark "History of the Peloponnesian War", one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin explains, is far more than a mere chronicle of the conflict between Athens and

But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica

rendering the speeches accessible to the reader with little or no Greek

he received favors from these two as emperors and from Domitian

κρατημένο γερά από τις άγκυρές του

Greek text with facing-page treanslation

but all that has come down to us are eleven speeches on legacy cases and a large fragment of a speech dealing with a claim of citizenship

but his poems are set in a Roman context

and accounts of the events directly leading to the war and of the growth of Athenian power since the Persian Wars which explain why this war between the two great powers of fifth-century Greece was fought — and on the way in which he has treated it

της συνύπαρξης διαφορετικών πολιτισμών και θρησκειών και στην καταλυτική δύναμη του έρωτα

From memorable counsel on the pointlessness of worrying about the future to valuable advice about living in the moment

and it is ideal for use with students in the upper forms of schools

Some years ago

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