Stories From Thucydides Classic Reprint

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656821068
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Stories From Thucydides (Classic Reprint) written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories From Thucydides N a former volume we have traced the course I of events which ended in the complete over throw of Xerxes and his great army. Our present task is to describe the chief incidents in the cruel and devastating war, commonly known as the Peloponnesian War, which lasted for twenty-seven years, and finally broke up the Athenian Empire. The cause of that war was the env and hatred excited in the other states of Greece by t e power and greatness of Athens and in order to make our story intelligible we must indicate briefly the steps by which she rose to that dangerous eminence, and drew u n herself the armed ho-: ility of half the Greek wor d. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484203463
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides Histories written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides Histories: Book IV These facts comprise almost all that we know with certainty concerning Thucydides; for the biographies found at the beginning of some mss. Are of very little value. They are derived from ancient commentaries, l to which, according to custom, a life of the author was prefixed; and the biographical details which they con tain, so far as they do not rest on inferences from the text of the history, are often confused and contradictory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
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ISBN 13 : 9781333003265
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides Histories written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides Histories: Book III There is to be sure no manuscript of Thucydides of such para mount importance as the Laurentian manuscript of Sophocles, and it is true that all the existing manuscripts show traces either of carelessness or, what is worse, of conscious alteration; but the faults of one manuscript can frequently be corrected by the help of others, and the errors are mostly of a definite and recurring nature, and do not affect the writer's meaning to any appreciable degree. How dangerous it is to rewrite an ancient author has recently been exemplified by the discovery at Oxyrhynchus of a papyrus fragment containing a small portion of Book IV, a book which has been treated in a very drastic manner by a distinguished editor, who is of opinion that the text of Thucydides has suffered much from the insertion of adscripts' or notes of commentators. The fragment, which is ascribed to the first century, is far from confirming this hypothesis. One fin is omitted to the great improvement of the syntax and sense (and that single words such as 8n, of, ms, can easily fall out or be inserted had been already suspected), but otherwise the text agrees in the main with the text of the existing manuscripts. The difficulties of Thucydides are therefore due to other causes than the ignorance or carelessness of his copyists. They are due in part to the nature of the man himself, in part to the conditions under which he wrote. Nor must it be too hastily assumed that the irregularities and solecisms which are found in the pages of Thucydides occur in no other Greek writer. They are to be found in all Greek writers, only in a less degree. That 'change of intention, ' of which so much is said in this commentary, could be largely exemplified from both poets and prose writers. Its frequency in Thucydides is due, in part, to the intellectual ardour and impatience of the writer. Thoughts crowd upon him too quickly; semper z'mtat sz'bz'. He begins a sentence with a plan in his mind which is upset by the intrusion of a new idea and, at the end, he is content if the thought is clear, and is not too much concerned about the grammatical correctness of his sentence. The same tendency may be seen in the writings of St. Paul and in the speeches of Oliver Cromwell, and with them it is partly due to the same cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260513939
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides, With an English Translation, Vol. 1 of 4 written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides, With an English Translation, Vol. 1 of 4: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books I and II M on his journey home from exile; Marcel linus that after his return from exile he died and was buried In Athens. But whether he died in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : G. B. Grundy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333653309
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides and the History of His Age (Classic Reprint) written by G. B. Grundy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides and the History of His Age IT is only fair to any one who may read any part of this book that he should be enlightened beforehand as to the origin of certain peculiarities which will be found in it. It presents the history of the fifth century before Christ under a somewhat novel aspect, in that it depicts the Greeks generally, and the Athenians in particular, as moving in a material rather than an ideal world. I have sought to get at the reality of life as it was lived by the mass of the Hellenes of two thousand years ago, - the men whose con dition, passions, and emotions made the political, as distinct from the intellectual, history of their race. When first I formed this idea of composing a historical edition of Thucydides, I had no intention of presenting Greek history under this aspect, though I was quite aware from my experience of those persistent inquirers, my Oxford pupils, that there was much in it, as commonly represented, for which it was not possible to provide a satisfactory explanation. In point of fact, I had no idea as to where the explanation lay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333805944
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides: Book II To-day quite other views of the end of learning are making way; according to which views, if I understand them, education ought to teach one kind of thing, and one only, that is to say, that kind of thing which will help the learner to make money. The supporters of these views hold that literature may be advantageously neglected, and something called 'useful knowledge' substituted for it. It is unlikely that any one who shares the new views on education will read these pages, because Greek is not placed by the apostles of this New Learning in the category of 'useful knowledge, ' the omission seeming to involve the conclusion that the Renaissance, the former revival of learning, and especially of Greek learning, was a great mistake, a delusion of foolish men who did not understand what was useful know ledge.' But if any who use this book are drifting about in uncertainty, and asking themselves, 'to what end Z they will do well to ponder those words of Milton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
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ISBN 13 : 9780267951253
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Fifth Book of Thucydides written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fifth Book of Thucydides: Edited With Notes The fifth Book begins with the expiration of this truce, when an expedition was made, urged by Cleon, in the hope of regaining Athenian ascendancy in Thrace. Exhausted as she must have been, Athens was able to despatch a strong force of chosen citizens, with the flower of the allies. But being, from party-intrigue or whatever cause, under the sole conduct of Cleon, the army was fore doomed to ruin. It did indeed recapture Torone, but was Shattered and dispersed in the fatal battle of Amphipolis. These events occupy the first thirteen chapters of the Book, and with them concludes the first period of the war. So far, or some few chapters further, the history seems to have been completed, and to have received its final revi sion, after the Peloponnesian war was over. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484530323
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides: Book III Twenty years ago I hoped to edit five books of Thucydides. I am glad that I have been able to do so; and now that I have finished, I Wish to acknowledge the unfailing courtesy and patience of the publishers. My chief purpose in this volume has been to enable readers to follow the narrative of the four great episodes contained in Book III. Without difficulty. To read the account of them with the aid of a good map and the necessary explanations is an interesting and even exciting experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
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ISBN 13 : 9781333005641
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides: Book Vi But in 422 fresh troubles between Leontini and Syracuse were reported at Athens. The Leontines, in order to increase their security against Syracuse, had enrolled new citizens, and proposed to provide them with land at the expense of the rich aristocrats. These latter protested, and obtained help from Syracuse. This gave Athens a pretext for sending out Phaeax, who was to attempt the formation of an anti-syracusan party in Sicily, ostensibly with the purpose of saving Leontini. But his efforts failed; and Syracuse actually appropriated Leontini and divided its land. In the winter of 416 Segesta took advantage of the alliance concluded in 426 to ask for Athenian help against her neighbour Selinus, with whom she was at war. Selinus had already received the support of Syracuse. The result of this request was the great sicilian expedition, which was opened with the most brilliant splendour in June 415, and came to its awful close in September 413. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.