TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luginbill,Robert D.
TI  - Author of illusions: Thucydides' rewriting of the history of the Peloponnesian War 
SN  - 9781443827775
AV  - DF229.2 .L84 2011eb
U1  - 938.05 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Pub.
KW  - Thucydides.
KW  - History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
KW  - fast
KW  - Historiae
KW  - swd
KW  - Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Classical history / classical civilisation
KW  - Military history
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - Greece
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Peloponnesischer Krieg
KW  - gnd
KW  - History
KW  - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
KW  - Errors, inventions, etc
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse)
KW  - Historiographie
KW  - Grekland
KW  - historia
KW  - historiografi
KW  - 431-404 f. Kr. (peloponnesiska kriget)
KW  - sao
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index; 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
N2  - 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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