Thucydides : the reinvention of history / Donald Kagan.

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Main Author: Kagan, Donald
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2009.
Subjects:
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Historiography.
Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C.
Greece > Historiography.
Physical Description:257 pages : map ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Reinvention of history.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Thucydides the revisionist
  • Causes of the war : Corcyra
  • Causes of the war : from Corcyra to the Megarian Decree
  • The strategy of Pericles
  • Was Periclean Athens a democracy?
  • Cleon's lucky victory at Pylos
  • Thucydides and Cleon at Amphipolis
  • The decision for a Sicilian expedition
  • Who was responsible for the Sicilian disaster?