Thucydides, Traslated Into English, to Which is Prefixed an Essay on Inscription sna a Note on the Geography of Thucydides Volume 2

Jowett, Benjamin|Thucydides, Thucydides

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Published by LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2015

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• Title: Thucydides, Traslated Into English, to Which is Prefixed an Essay on Inscription sna a Note on the Geography of Thucydides Volume 2
• Publisher: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1346776717
• ISBN 13: 9781346776712
• Binding: Gebunden
• Condition: New

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Thucydides (c. 460 BC400 BC) was a general who was exiled for his failure to defend the Greek city of Amphipolis in Thrace. During his exile, he began compiling histories and accounts of the war from various participants.Rex Warner was a Professor of the University of Connecticut from 1964 until his retirement in He was born in 1905 and went to Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a first in Classical Moderations, and took a degree in English Literature. He taught in Egypt and England, and was Director of the British Institute, Athens, from 1945 to 1947. He has written poems, novels and critical essays, has worked on films and broadcasting, and has translated many works, of which Xenophon s History of My Time and The Persian Expedition, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War, and Plutarch s Lives (under the title Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays have been published in Penguin Classics.M. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986. M. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986.