Thucydides : the reinvention of history /

Reassesses of the life and contributions of the ancient revisionist historian to place him in the context of his time, citing the pivotal influence of his refusal to credit the gods or individuals with the societal events documented in "The PeloponnesianWar."

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kagan, Donald
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2009.
Subjects:	Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War. Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. > Historiography. Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C. Greece > Historiography.

Table of Contents:

Thucydides the revisionist
Causes of the war : Corcyra
Causes of the war : from Corcyra to the Megarian Decree
The strategy of Pericles
Was Periclean Athens a democracy?
Cleon's lucky victory at Pylos
Thucydides and Cleon at Amphipolis
The decision for a Sicilian expedition
Who was responsible for the Sicilian disaster?