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Author : Polly Low
Release : 2023-01-31
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by : Polly Low
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides written by Polly Low. This book was released on 2023-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical tradition.
Author : Carolyn Dewald
Release : 2006-06-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus by : Carolyn Dewald
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus written by Carolyn Dewald. This book was released on 2006-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly known as the 'Father of History', Herodotus is the first major prose writer in the history of Western literature whose work has survived in full. At a time when the ancient Greeks' knowledge of the past relied on orally transmitted memories, he was a pioneering historical practitioner who explored the interplay of myth and history and the role of narrative in history. Contributors to this volume analyze Herodotus' Histories and their influence. Taking a thematic approach, they explore the Histories and their context, techniques and themes, representation of the Greeks' relationships with foreigners and reception.
Author : Stephen Salkever
Release : 2009-04-27
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought by : Stephen Salkever
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought written by Stephen Salkever. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of political life. Focusing on texts by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, they examine perennial issues, including rights and virtues, democracy and the rule of law, community formation and maintenance, and the ways in which theorizing of several genres can and cannot assist political practice.
Author : Polly Low
Release : 2023-02-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by : Polly Low
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides written by Polly Low. This book was released on 2023-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its interpretation and its significance. The nature of the text is explored in detail, and problems of Thucydides' historical and literary methodology are examined. Other chapters analyse the ways in which Thucydides' work illuminates, or complicates, our understanding of key historical questions for this period, above all those relating to the nature and conduct of war, politics, and empire. Finally, the book also explores the continuing legacy of Thucydides, from antiquity to the present day.
Author : Loren J. Samons II
Release : 2007-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles by : Loren J. Samons II
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles written by Loren J. Samons II. This book was released on 2007-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.
