Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
Subtitle: The Sicilian Expedition and Its Aftermath
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780520229846
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Taxation; History - General History; Greece; Sicilian Expedition, Italy, 415-413 B.C.; History: World; Ancient Greece; History of the Peloponnesian W; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / General; History of the Peloponnesian War; Finance; Thucydides; Athens; Historiography; History; Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
First sentence: The presentation of money and wealth in the opening stage of the Sicilian expedition (roughly the first half of book 6) constitutes an inversion of the same theme as treated in the earlier books of the History.