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1998
Abstract War is a harsh teacher 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 harsh truths about how individuals and states behave.
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Abstract War is a harsh teacher 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 harsh truths about how individuals and states behave.
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2018
First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians. Originating from its author’s re-reading of Thucydides during World War I, it sought to place Thucydides not as the production of a remote world, but instead of one instilled with present life and reality.
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First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians. Originating from its author’s re-reading of Thucydides during World War I, it sought to place Thucydides not as the production of a remote world, but instead of one instilled with present life and reality.
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1999
Abstract Discussing the generalizing and philosophical quality of poetry, Aristotle writes: It is clear … that the task of the poet is not to say what happened, but the sort of thing that might happen … that is why poetry [poiesis] is more philosophical and serious 1 than history, for poetry deals more [] with the universal, history the ...
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Abstract Discussing the generalizing and philosophical quality of poetry, Aristotle writes: It is clear … that the task of the poet is not to say what happened, but the sort of thing that might happen … that is why poetry [poiesis] is more philosophical and serious 1 than history, for poetry deals more [] with the universal, history the ...
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1991
Abstract This passage (i. 70-1) is the peroration of the Corinthians’ speech to the Spartans in the famous Debate in 432 bc. It consists of a comparison between the characters of the Athenians and the Spartans, and an exhortation to the latter to bestir themselves.
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Abstract This passage (i. 70-1) is the peroration of the Corinthians’ speech to the Spartans in the famous Debate in 432 bc. It consists of a comparison between the characters of the Athenians and the Spartans, and an exhortation to the latter to bestir themselves.
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