The Eighth Book Of Thucydides

Author : Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110533073
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII written by Vasileios Liotsakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two centuries, the narrative plan of Book 8 remains an obscure subject, as we do not possess an extensive and detailed presentation of its whole narrative design. Vasileios Liotsakis tries to satisfy this central desideratum of the Thucydidean scholarship by offering a thorough description of the compositional plan, which, in his opinion, Thucydides put into effect in the last 109 chapters of his work. His study elaborates on the structural parts of the book, their details, and the various techniques through which Thucydides composed his narration in order to reach the internal cohesion of these chapters as well as their close connection to the rest of the History. Liotsakis offers us an original approach not only of Book 8 but also of the whole work, since his observations reshape our overall view of the History.

Author : Blaise Nagy
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585104833
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thucydides Reader written by Blaise Nagy and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated and illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories with introductory material for all eight books of the Histories, commentary and grammatical notes. This book is a standard text for any college course in reading Thucydides in Greek. It is also suitable for post-intermediate, secondary school students who want to tackle the works of a popular but challenging author.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighth book of Thucydides' history written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thucydides
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Eighth Book of Thucydides' History written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thucydides
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book The eighth book of Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104432416
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Book of Thucydides' History (1893) written by Thucydides and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Thomas G. Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Book of Thucydides written by Thomas G. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Cawkwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134708432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War written by George Cawkwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible. This book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with Pericles; and his views on the Athenian Empire. Cawkwell's comprehensive analysis of Thucydides and his historical writings is persuasive, erudite and an immensely valuable addition to the scholarship and criticism of a rich and popular period of Greek history.

Author : Thucydides
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Eighth Book of Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Dewald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520930975
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides' War Narrative written by Carolyn Dewald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-02-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative structure bears witness to Thucydides' dialogic efforts to depict the complexities of rational choice and behavior on the part of the war's combatants, as well as his own authorial interest in accuracy of representation. In her introduction and conclusion, Dewald explores some ways in which details of style and narrative structure are central to the larger theoretical issue of history's ability to meaningfully represent the past. She also surveys changes in historiography in the past quarter-century and considers how Thucydidean scholarship has reflected and responded to larger cultural trends.