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Title: The Peloponnesian War
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Norton Critical Edition
ISBN-10: 0393971678
EAN: 9780393971675
ISBN: 9780393971675
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 08/19/1998
Description: Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon, Herodotus, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and twentieth-century journalist, Walter Karp. "Interpretations" includes richly varied assessments of Thucydides by Theodor Gomperz, Francis M. Cornford, Charles N. Chochrane, R. G. Collingwood, Albert Cook, Cynthia Farrar, Adam Parry, Glen Bowersock, Robert Gilpin, Michael Doyle, and Gregory Crane.

The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 236mm
Item Length: 142mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 614g
Author: Thucydides
Translator: Walter Blanco
Contributor: Walter Blanco (Edited by), Jennifer Tolbert Roberts (Edited by), Walter Blanco (Translated by)
Genre: History
Topic: Ancient History, Literary Criticism
Book Series: Norton Critical Editions
Release Year: 1998

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