Thucydides And The History Of His Age Classic Reprint

Author : G. B. Grundy
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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
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Author : Thucydides Thucydides
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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 : Maurice Hutton
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ISBN 13 : 9780365514251
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides and History (Classic Reprint) written by Maurice Hutton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides and History Herodotus breaks out to record his personal dissent from the ntild and abstract proposition of some contemporary Darwin that man is only an animal and need not he more careful of his behaviour in temples and holy places than animals are seen to be. The proposition is displeasing to me he tells us: Thucydides will not let his personal disgust he seen even when infants are butchered. It seems to be beneath the dignity of history: to be an unworthy concession to popular feeling and superficial sentiment, to be a playing to the gallery and the ground lings. 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 : George Beardoe Grundy
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Total Pages : 590 pages
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Author : Thucydides Thucydides
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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 : 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.

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
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ISBN 13 : 9780267941933
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides, Vol. 1 The Greek text of this book I. Is reprinted, by kind permission, from that. Of Mr. Stuart Jones in the Oxford series. Some years ago I prepared a text but, on comparing the Oxford text with my own, I found that mine seldom differed from it, and it seemed better to follow the new text as it stands, merely noting the few passages in which I am unable to agree with Mr. Stuart Jones. For the permission so readily accorded I tender my best thanks. 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 : 9781331925644
Total Pages : 506 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 . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 506 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 Three ancient biographies of Thucydides have come down to us, but they are of little value. They are derived from ancient commentaries, and the biographical details which they contain, wherever they do not rest upon inference from the text of the history itself, are often confused and contradictory. These are supplemented by scattered statements of several ancient writers - Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who wrote two treatises on Thucydides (De Thucydidis historia indicium and the Second Letter to Ammaeus), Plutarch (Cimon iv), and Pausanias (i. xxxii.). The only authentic facts about the life of Thucydides are gathered from casual mention in the History. 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 : Francis Macdonald Cornford
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ISBN 13 : 9780266907749
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides Mythistoricus (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Macdonald Cornford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides Mythistoricus The title of this book needs a word of explanation, if not of apology; for to any one who is accustomed to think of Thucydides as typically prosaic, and nothing if not purely historical, the epithet Mythistorieus may seem to carry a note of challenge, or even of paradox. But the sense in which the expression has here been used is quite consistent with the historian's much-talked-of trustworthiness', and, indeed, with the literal truth of every statement of fact in the whole of his work. It is possible, however, even for a writer of history, to be something much better than trustworthy. Xenophon, I suppose, is honest; but his honesty makes it none the easier to read him. To read Thucydides is, although certainly not easy, at any rate pleasant, because - trustworthiness and all - he is a great artist. It is the object of this essay to bring out an essentially artistic aspect of his work, which has escaped notice, partly because the history is so long that it is hard to take it in as a whole, and partly because the execution of the effect is imperfect, having been hindered by the good intentions with which Thucydides set out. 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.