Thucydides Mythistoricus Classic Reprint

Author : Francis M. Cornford
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821233
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides Mythistoricus written by Francis M. Cornford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book falls into two parts: Thucydides Historicus and Thucydides Mythicus. In the first, Francis M. Cornford attempts to prove the inadequacy of Thucydides's account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War and develops a very different theory of its causes. In the second part he attempts to answer the question why Thucydides has told us so little about the War that we find accurate, consistent, or relevant.

Author : Francis Macdonald Cornford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330658741
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides Mythistoricus (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Macdonald Cornford and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 292 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 Mythistoricus 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. The history, as it stands, is the product of two hardly compatible designs. It was originally planned as a textbook of strategy and politics in the form of a journal; and it is commonly taken to be actually nothing more. 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 : F. M. Cornford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317687515
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thucydides Mythistoricus (Routledge Revivals) written by F. M. Cornford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1907 and reissued in 1965, this is a fascinating study of Thucydides’s History. Thucydides set out to write a truthful account of the Pelopennesian war, but his work reflects his Athenian fourth-century B.C. context, which was of a particular interest to Cornford. In this fascinating title, Cornford analyses the causes of the war as shown by Thucydides and other sources, and then goes on to comment on the History.

Author : Francis Macdonald Cornford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722224151
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Francis Macdonald Cornford
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ISBN 13 : 9780598895035
Total Pages : 284 pages
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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 : 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 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
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332731902
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides, Book I (Classic Reprint) written by Thucydides Thucydides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thucydides, Book I Proem would have been better if it had consisted of the head and the tail without the body. This is perhaps about the most disturbing thing that he says; and, after all, if Thucydides had been making a speech, even that criticism would have been quite true. Dionysius did not understand how history should be written; but he did most thoroughly understand the qualities of the austere style in composition and he appreciated the best qualities of Thucydides on the artistic side - his consummate power in narrative, his fertile inven tion in the speeches, his dignity and unsurpassed pathos. Modern editors, even Poppo, owe a debt to him that they do not always acknowledge. 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 B. Grundy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331625509
Total Pages : 580 pages
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Download or read book Thucydides and the History of His Age (Classic Reprint) written by George B. Grundy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 580 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.