A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109: 3 - Softcover

Hornblower, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199594457 ISBN 13: 9780199594450

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2010

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Críticas

Hornblower's erudition is immense and illuminating, he's not afraid to use his imagination, and the political no less than the academic world will be in his debt for generations. That is no small achievement. (Peter Green, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2009)

The effort [Hornblower] has put into explicating Thucydides' text is monumental, and the historian is fortunate to have found a commentator of such devotion. (John Marincola, Classical Review)

This immensely learned tome represents a fine and weighty ... summation of Hornblower's Imagnum opus (Emily Baragwanath, Exemplaria Classica)

Reseña del editor

This is the third and final volume (Vol. I 1991, Vol. II 1996) of a historical and literary commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the twenty-seven-year 'Peloponnesian War' (between the Athenians and Spartans and their respective allies) written by the great fifth-century BC historian Thucydides. The present volume of commentary covers the ten closely-narrated years 421-411 BC, and nearly half of the total of eight 'books' (subdivisions) of Thucydides' work. It includes one of the most famous sections of ancient Greek literary writing, the lengthy and supremely dramatic account of the disastrous Athenian expedition against Sicily (415-413) in Books 6 and 7; but also the Melian Dialogue (Book 5), a notorious document of Athenian imperialism; and the account of the oligarchic revolution at Athens in 411 (Book 8). All Greek is translated. There is a thematic General Introduction and two Appendixes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199594457
• ISBN 13: 9780199594450
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1128