Author of illusions : Thucydides' rewriting of the history of the Peloponnesian War / by Robert D. Luginbill.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 277 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443827775
- 1443827770
- 1283142295
- 9781283142298
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
- Historiae
- Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography
- Greece -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
- Grèce -- Histoire -- 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) -- Historiographie
- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
- Classical history / classical civilisation
- Military history
- HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece
- Historiography
- Greece
- Peloponnesischer Krieg
- Grekland -- historia -- historiografi -- 431-404 f. Kr. (peloponnesiska kriget)
- Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.)
- 431-404 B.C
- 938.05 23
- DF229.2 .L84 2011eb
- 6,12
- FH 26175
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index.
Print version record.
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 ...
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.
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