The Peloponnesian War : A Norton Critical Edition Paperback / softback
by Thucydides
Edited by Walter (Lehman College, City University of New York) Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert (CUNY Graduate Center) Roberts
Part of the Norton Critical Editions series
Paperback / softback
Description
Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon, Herodotus, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and twentieth-century journalist, Walter Karp. "Interpretations" includes richly varied assessments of Thucydides by Theodor Gomperz, Francis M.
Cornford, Charles N. Chochrane, R. G. Collingwood, Albert Cook, Cynthia Farrar, Adam Parry, Glen Bowersock, Robert Gilpin, Michael Doyle, and Gregory Crane. The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:19/08/1998
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- ISBN:9780393971675
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:19/08/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393971675