[PDF] Thucydides Book Vi eBook

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 1999-09-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
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This is an edition of Book VI of Thucydides. Its notes aim to assist translation, draw attention to features of language and style characteristic of the author, make explicit what the author took for granted in his original audience and comment on the historical background.

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher :
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107176921

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Edition of the latter part of Thucydides' account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE).

Author : Thucydides Thucydides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780266525899

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Excerpt from Thucydides, Book Vi But in 422 fresh troubles between Leontini and Syracuse were reported at Athens. The Leontines, in order to increase their security against Syracuse, had enrolled new citizens, and proposed to provide them with land at the expense of the rich aristocrats. These latter protested, and obtained help from Syracuse. This gave Athens a pretext for sending out Phaeax, who was to attempt the formation of an anti-syracusan party in Sicily, ostensibly with the purpose of saving Leontini. But his efforts failed; and Syracuse actually appropriated Leontini and divided its land. In the winter Of 416 bc. Segesta took advantage of the alliance concluded in 426 to ask for Athenian help against her neighbour Selinus, with whom She was at war.' Selinus had already received the support of Syracuse. The result Of this request was the great sicilian expedition, which was opened with the most brilliant splendour in June 415, 'and came to its awful close in September 413. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1416590870

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Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781015535527

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