Description
| Summary: | Thucydides' work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC - one of only two monumental prose works to have survived - and it still poses fresh and challenging questions about the writing of history. In the twenty-first century, it still challenges the reader: there is a marked tension in Thucydides' History between his aim to write about contemporary events and his desire that his work should outlast the period in which he composed it. Thucydides and the Shaping of History addresses two important issues: how contemporary was the History w.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9781472502438
1472502434 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015). |
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