A Commentary on Thucydides [Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109] 9780199276486

114 81 164MB

English Pages XIX, 1107 [564] Year 2008

Table of contents :
List of Figures. List of Maps. Abbreviations. General Introduction: The dates and stages of composition of 5. 25-8. The Sicilian (and South Italian) expedition of 415-413 in context: before and after. Sicilian culture and theatricality. The Athens/Syracuse parallel in Th. 6 and 7. Thucydides and the Athenian Boule (Council of Five Hundred). Possible recitation units in 5.25-8. 109. Direct and indirect speech in 5. 25-8. 109. ‘Stylistic enactment’. Commentary: Book 5.25-116. Book 6. Book 7. Book 8. Appendix 1. Books 1-5. 24 revisited. Appendix 2. Athenian troop and ﬂeet numbers and casualties in Sicily, 415-413. Index.

A Commentary on Thucydides [Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109]
9780199276486

Author / Uploaded
Simon Hornblower

Similar Topics
History

0 0 0
Like this paper and download? You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up

File loading please wait...

Recommend Papers

Thucydides: History III 0856685399, 9780856685392

P. J. Rhodes continues his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War with his edition of Book III, provid

297 92 4MB Read more

A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume II: Books IX-XVI [2] 0198721447, 9780198721444

This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special d

303 25 6MB Read more

A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X, Volume IV, Book X: 4 0199272565, 9780199272563

Livy's tenth book, an exciting climax to his first decade, narrates two political advances of 300 BC, the Lex Valer

336 72 5MB Read more

Nonnos. Dionysiaca, Volume III: Books 36-48 [3]

349 49 24MB Read more

On Digital Architecture in Ten Books. Volume 1 On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 1: Books I–III. 9783035626018, 9783035625981

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius

101 10 12MB Read more

The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume III (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea, 22) 9781138791411, 9781315762845

This is the third of three volumes, first published in 1906, which treat the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. The fir

311 80 4MB Read more

Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Books III-IX [Volume 2, 2 ed.]

325 86 21MB Read more

The Iliad : a commentary / Volume 4 Books 13-16 0521281741, 9780521281744, 0521237122, 9780521237123

This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on the Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Profess

252 32 11MB Read more

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ecclesiastes Volume 1: Introduction and Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1.1–5.6 9780567693532, 9780567693525

This new volume in the ICC on Ecclesiastes 1-5 brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual,

260 82 4MB Read more

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1-27, Volume 2. Commentary on Isaiah 6-12 [2] 0567030598, 9780567030597

This eagerly anticipated volume is the second installment in H.G.M. Williamson's International Critical Commentary

109 2 4MB Read more