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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.: Thucydides: the Peloponnesian War Book VI by Christopher Pelling (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107176913
ISBN-139781107176911
eBay Product ID (ePID)11057241471
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameThucydides: the Peloponnesian War Book VI
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
SubjectEurope / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient & Classical
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher Pelling
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
SeriesCambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2021-032828
Reviews'The Introductions serve as warm and erudite welcomes into a text often represented as cold and formidable. ... The commentaries are extremely rich ... Pelling's volumes facilitate greater access to Thucydides, while his insightful readings demonstrate the way that Thucydides' authorial choices leave the reader with a sense of the tragedy of the Peloponnesian War.' Rachel Bruzzone, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 'Book 6 is beautifully written, packed with self-contained information about the text and citations of the secondary scholarship.' Gregory Crane, Tufts University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 'Anyone reading Thucydides' books VI and VII can, perhaps even should, benefit from the deep knowledge of and understanding for the text Pelling displays.' Jan P. Stronk, Exemplaria Classica, '... Pelling provides us with a significant piece of work, all the more so because of his close focus upon literary matters, in which he excels. He is in full control of the text, its grammar and syntax, major and minor themes, and the enormous secondary literature that afflicts the scholar trying to explicate Thucydides' rhetorical genius.' Hunter R. Rawlings III, Histos
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal938.05
Table Of ContentIntroduction; Deviations from Alberti; Sigla; THUCYDIDES: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR BOOK VI; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisUp-to-date edition of the former of the two dramatic books of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Aimed principally at undergraduates and graduate student studying Ancient Greek. Published simultaneously with an edition of Book 7., In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras. The spectacle of the armada is memorably described; so is the panic at Athens when people fear that acts of sacrilege may be alienating the gods, with Alcibiades himself so implicated that he is soon recalled. The Book ends with Athens seeming poised for victory; that will soon change, and a sister commentary on Book 7 is being published simultaneously. The Introduction discusses the narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history. Considerable help with the Greek is offered throughout the Commentary.
LC Classification NumberDF229
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