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1007744
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b762114
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Zagorin, Perez.
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| Title & Author
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Thucydides : : an introduction for the common reader /\ Perez Zagorin.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, NJ ;Woodstock :: Princeton University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages)
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| ISBN
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128208691X
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: 1400826799
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: 9781282086913
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: 9781400826797
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069113880X
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9780691138800
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2005.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index.
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| Contents
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Thucydides' history and its background -- The subject, method, and structure of Thucydides' history -- Thucydides on the causes of the war -- Thucydides and Pericles -- Scenes from the Archidamian War, Mytilene, Plataea, Corcyra, Pylos -- Dialogue at Melos, the Sicilian expedition -- Endings -- Thucydides as a philosophic historian.
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This 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 Sparta, the two superpowers of Greece in the fifth century BCE. It is also a remarkable story of politics, decision-making, the uses of power, and the.
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Thucydides., History of the Peloponnesian War.
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Thucydides., History of the Peloponnesian War.
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Thucydide, Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse.
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Thucydide-- Pensée politique et sociale.
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Greece.
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Historiography.
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History Archaeology.
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HISTORY-- Ancient-- Greece.
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HISTORY-- Ancient.
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Regions Countries - Europe.
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History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
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Greece, History, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., Historiography.
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Grèce, Histoire, 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse), Historiographie.
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Greece.
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| Dewey Classification
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938/.05/072
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| LC Classification
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DF229.T6Z34 2009eb
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