A Commentary on Thucydides - Books 5.25-8.109

Zusatztext This immensely learned tome represents a fine and weighty ... summation of Hornblower's I^magnum opus Informationen zum Autor Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London, where he has taught for ten years. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Klappentext The third and final volume of a commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction. Zusammenfassung The third and final volume of a commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction.

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• Authors: Simon Hornblower, Simon (Professor of Classics and Ancient History Hornblower, Hornblower Simon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9780199276486
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927648-6
• No. of pages: 1128
• Series: Commentary on Thucydides; Commentary on Thucydides
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Literary essays, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval