Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 51630)
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| control field | 20250927201240.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780192855824 |
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| Classification number | 938.05 ROB |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roberts, Jennifer T |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Oxford |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 125 |
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| Summary, etc | View larger<br/>Jennifer T. Roberts<br/><br/>Description<br/><br/>Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring<br/><br/>In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404. The Athenian aristocrat Thucydides, suspecting the magnitude of the conflict that was unfolding before his eyes, at once undertook to record its history, exploring the causes and course of the war in the context of his great interest: human nature. An introduction to Thucydides' thought and background, this book examines Thucydides' account of the war in the context both of the international situation in the classical Greek world and of the intellectual traditions of the fifth century BCE, exploring the historian's connection to prose writers like Herodotus as well as poets like Homer and the tragedians, and investigating the complex dynamics of the war that changed the Greek world forever. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Greece |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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