Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
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Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, by Donald Kagan (Amazon) (234pp)
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.
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Scholarly book for classical-history readers; analyzes Thucydides as a modern historian and yields a deeper understanding of historiography.
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By Meetup
Scholarly book for classical-history readers; analyzes Thucydides as a modern historian and yields a deeper understanding of historiography.