Thucydides: The Reinvention of HistoryThe grandeur and power of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for two and a half millennia, and the work and its author have had an enduring influence on those who think about international relations and war, especially in our own time. In Thucydides, Donald Kagan, one of our foremost classics scholars, illuminates the great historian and his work both by examining him in the context of his time and by considering him as a revisionist historian.
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Introduction | 1 |
Thucydides the Revisionist | 23 |
Causes of the WarCorcyra | 35 |
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