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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Divided into four sections-History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception-The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides provides a comprehensive introduction to Thucydides' ideas and their ancient influence. It bridges traditionally divided

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 November 2022

Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 14 March 2013

This Oxford Handbook gathers 38 leading historians to describe, analyze, and interpret warfare and its effects in classical Greece and Rome.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 20 August 2009

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 10 February 2017

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 23 July 2009

A collection of essays on the first great work of political history - Thucydides' account of the war between Athens and Sparta. All Greek is translated, and an introductory chapter

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 19 October 2006

Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 September 2021

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However,

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 05 August 2004

`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes