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1 online resource (x, 277 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index. |
| Summary |
Pericles, famed general and foremost political leader of Athens during her glory days of the 5th century, brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire almost single-handedly. This truth, obvious to contemporary Greeks, is today not generally understood, and we have Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War to thank for the confusion. That Thucydides, a fierce partisan of Pericles and a soldier exiled for his own military misadventures, should wish to reinvent the history of tha ... |
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The ideal war -- The unavoidable necessity -- The perfect plan -- The model leader -- Pericle's true strategy -- Leadership, persuasion and personal motivation -- Paradigms of imperfection I : the Archidamian War -- Paradigms of imperfections II : the truce, Sicily, and the Ionian War -- The irrefutable apology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
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History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) |
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Historiae. |
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Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography.
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Greece -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval. |
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Classical history / classical civilisation. |
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Military history. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. |
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Historiography. |
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Grekland -- historia -- historiografi -- 431-404 f. Kr. (peloponnesiska kriget) |
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Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) |
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431-404 B.C. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Luginbill, Robert Dean. Author of Illusions : Thucydides' Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2011 9781443826495 |
| ISBN |
9781443827775 (electronic book) |
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1443827770 (electronic book) |
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1283142295 |
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9781283142298 |
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1443826499 |
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9781443826495 |
| Standard No. |
9786613142290 |
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