Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI

Edition of the former part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).

List of contents

Introduction; Deviations from Alberti; Sigla; THUCYDIDES: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR BOOK VI; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.

About the author

Christopher Pelling is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. His books include, most recently, Herodotus and the Question Why (2019) and, earlier, Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000); Plutarch and History (2002); and Twelve Voices from Ancient Greece and Rome (with Maria Wyke, 2014). He has also written commentaries on Plutarch's Caesar (2011) and, in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, Plutarch's Life of Antony (1988) and, with Simon Hornblower, Herodotus Book 6 (2017). His edited or co-edited volumes include Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (1990), Ethics and Rhetoric (1995), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (1997), Ancient Historiography and its Contexts (2011), and Rediscovering E. R. Dodds (2019). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Summary

Up-to-date edition of the former of the two dramatic books of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Aimed principally at undergraduates and graduate student studying Ancient Greek. Published simultaneously with an edition of Book 7.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Pelling, Christopher (University of Oxford) Pelling
• Assisted by: Christopher Pelling (Editor), Christopher (University of Oxford) Pelling (Editor), Pelling Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781316630211
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63021-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; History of Ideas, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Historiography, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Translation and interpretation