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The bestselling author of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides as the first modern historian. Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now, Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides, the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries, in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery, a moving tribute, and a revelatory meditation on the practice of history and its value in human affairs.
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Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, Donald Kagan
- Language
- Released
- 2010
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Donald Kagan
- Publisher
- PENGUIN GROUP
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 260
- ISBN10
- 0143118293
- ISBN13
- 9780143118299
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Military History, Wars, Ancient History, Greece
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- The bestselling author of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides as the first modern historian. Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now, Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides, the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries, in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery, a moving tribute, and a revelatory meditation on the practice of history and its value in human affairs.