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Thucydides
Thucydides, born about 471, saw the rise of Athens under the leadership of Pericles. In 430, second year of the Peloponnesian War, he survived the plague which he described so graphically. As general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy & was disgraced. He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence that it befell him to b...more
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(first published -411)
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If, like me, you are unable to read solely the Greek text, then the next best thing is to use the Loeb edition. The English translation, made by C. F. Smith in 1919, is excellent, and it is useful to be able to refer to the Greek on the facing pages.
I would recommend reading this along with The Landmark Thucydides, which also contains a fine translation, excellent notes and timelines, and, perhaps best of all, detailed maps.
Lastly, it is illuminating to consult Hobbes's translation along the way...more
I would recommend reading this along with The Landmark Thucydides, which also contains a fine translation, excellent notes and timelines, and, perhaps best of all, detailed maps.
Lastly, it is illuminating to consult Hobbes's translation along the way...more
For all those people who believe that modern politics have changed concept since the Ancient years. They will be surprised to see how similar the epochs are..
"The Lacedaemonians voted that the treaty had been broken, and that the war must be declared, not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of the allies, as because they feared the growth of the power of the Athenians, seeing most of Hellas already subject to them."
Th destruction of Athens during the plague reminds me of the Bush years
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