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A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24

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This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary of the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Books iv-v.24 cover the years 425-421 BC and contain the Pylos-Spakteria narrative, the Delion Campaign, and Brasidas' operations in the north of Greece. This volume ends wi...more
Hardcover, 536 pages
Published December 19th 1996 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1996)
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A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 (Paperback)
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Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London.

Born in 1949, he was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a DPhil in 1978.

In 1971 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, which he held until 1977. From 1978 until 1997, he was University Lecturer in Anc...more
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization The Greek World 479-323 BC A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109 Greek Historiography

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