Thucydides' War Narrative
Subtitle: A Structural Study (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 12, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520241275
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.; History of the Peloponnesian W; Historiography; Thucydides.; History - General History; Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C; History: World; Ancient Greece; History of the Peloponnesian War; Ancient - Greece; Military - General; History / Ancient / General; Greece; Thucydides; Ancient - General; History
First sentence: Thucydides structures the first book of his History to provide a relatively complicated overview of long-term and short-term causes for the Second Peloponnesian War, the war that he himself lived through and that engulfed the whole Greek world between 431 and 404 B.C.E.