Thucydides - Couverture rigide

Kagan, Donald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670021296 ISBN 13 : 9780670021291

Editeur : Viking Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Thucydides Kagan, one of the foremost classics scholars, illuminates the historian Thucydides and his greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," both by examining him in the context of his time and by considering him as a revisionist historian. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The bestselling author of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides as the first modern historian.

Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now, Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides, the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries, in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery, a moving tribute, and a revelatory meditation on the practice of history and its value in human affairs.

Biographie de l'auteur

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. His four-volume History of the Peloponnesian War is the leading scholarly work on the subject. He is also the author of many books on ancient and modern topics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670021296
• ISBN 13: 9780670021291
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 257
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• Personne responsable: non disponible