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Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
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Author
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Donald Kagan.
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Publisher
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Viking
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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ISBN
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9780670021291
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Pages/Publication Date
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257/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21766
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Description
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"Yale professor of classics [Donald] Kagan thoroughly examines Thucydides' life and work to successfully demonstrate that the Athenian historian was the first to utilize a truly professional (i.e., realistic and methodical) approach in recounting contemporary events. An unsuccessful general and a devoted adherent of Pericles, Thucydides believed that the Peloponnesian War was the most significant event in Greek history. He was determined that his study of the war, unlike more romantic or folkish histories, would stand the test of time because of his attention to detail.... To his credit, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War remains a necessity in the study of international relations, military strategy and political science.... If Herodotus remains the acknowledged Father of History, then Thucydides could be described as the Father of Objective History, who opened the realm of history to serious study."—Publishers Weekly
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