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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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What Academic Scholarship Should Be
Forde's book far outstrips any other current treatment of the career of Alkibiades in Thucydides' History.In fact, it may be the best scholastic treatment of Alkibiades, period.The interpretive slant taken is A.'s effect on the political context of the city-state, and a continuous stream of provocative insights reveal the depth of this effect.What you will not find here is an analysis of the private aspects of Alkibiades' life, such as his supposed seduction of a Spartan Queen, or the extent of his own licentious behaviour.Neither does Forde expand his perspective beyond Thucydides, but these limitations in no way should be accounted as faults of the book.This is a scholar staking out his territory, and then giving a rigorous and creative solution to problems encountered within it.His analysis of Thucydides' use of the word "eros" is not to be missed, and his deft treatment of a comparison between the psychology of Sparta and Athens is also excellent.I highly recommend this book for both experienced scholars and anyone with an interest in Thucydides. ... Read more

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Not much attention has been paid to the history of Corcyra in relation to Athens in the Peloponnesian War, though Thucydides devotes no fewer than 52 chapters to it.John Wilson remedies this gap in scholarship by a detailed analysis of the Thucydidean text.Part 1 of the book deals with the Epidamnus and Sybota campaigns; Part 2 with the Corcyrean stasis, together with important tailpieces after 427 BC.

The relevants texts of Thucydides are included in Greek, as well as the author's own translations and a number of maps. ... Read more

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The Peloponnesian War, which destroyed imperial Athens and ultimately Sparta as well, continues to fascinate students of history, politics, and human nature. Thucydides' account of the twenty-seven-year conflict charts the opposition between the two great powers of the classical Greek world and the ways of life they represented. Paula Debnar explores the collapse of these powers from a new perspective, examining the ways discourse changed under the strain of a long and costly war.
Speaking the Same Language seeks to recover the role played by the audiences within the History. By restoring the internal audiences to a more prominent place, Debnar emphasizes the perspective of the participants in the war and heightens the dramatic immediacy of the debates. She thoroughly analyzes twelve speeches delivered by or to the Spartans, demonstrating how the earlier speeches illustrate the role of discourse in the construction of Sparta's identity and the unification of her Dorian allies in the face of their primarily Ionian adversaries.
Combining close textual analysis with an examination of narrative and historical context, Debnar bridges the gap between literary and historical studies of Thucydides. Accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike, her work will interest those working in the fields of Greek literature, ancient historiography, rhetoric, political science, and ethnic studies.
Paula Debnar is Associate Professor of Classics, Mount Holyoke College.
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Stahl's classic book on Thucydides is one of the most profound and widely respected modern studies of the Athenian historian. Published in German in 1966 as Thukydides: Die Stellung des Menschen im geschichtlichen Prozess, it has, until now, not been available in English. For this new edition, the original has been revised and enlarged by two chapters which reflect the author's subsequent work. Stahl's achievement is, first, to free Thucydides from the nationalist limits which modern interpreters imposed, then to demonstrate the technique whereby Thucydides constructs his work as an interplay, using narrative to comment on the speeches of politicians, to confirm or, more often, to refute his speakers' analysis. The author is Mellon Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Read more

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"Once Again for Thucydides" is a collection of twelve short journals Peter Handke wrote on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the sea of Hakkaido in Japan. In each journal, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their "simple, unadorned validity." What results is a word of remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of such random things as a tree, a shoeshine man, a boat loading on a pier, and discovers their inner workings and mystery. Always, his writing hints at the unknown. Describing the snow melting in a garden or falling during an inland train ride through Japan, the glowworms illuminating the plains in Friuli, the tidal waters flowing and receding off the Atlantic coast of Spain, these amazing little "epics" reveal a narrator obsessed with the wonders of detail and marveling, as are we, at the scope and variety of the natural world. In the words of German writer Gerhard Meier, "Once Again for Thucydides" ends up being "a courageous and defiantly independent book."Amazon.com Review
History is not all battles and great leaders, nor huge socialforces and turbulent change. Instead, the Austrian novelist PeterHandke suggests in this set of prose-poem-like essays, it embodiessmall moments, tiny fragments of landscape and memory. Set mostly inpost-World War II Western Europe and the Balkans, his vignettes centeron history's forgotten people and places: a young girl in Yugoslavia"wearing a bright frayed bandage on her knee," an ash tree in Munichnear a triumphal arch "with its peculiar inscription, 'Dedicated tovictory--destroyed by war--admonishing peace.'" Perhaps the mosteffective essay is a small narrative of the different hats oneencounters in a Balkan city: kepis, berets, helmets, ski caps, fezzes,and all the other gear that separates one tribe fromanother. --Gregory MacNamee ... Read more

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Beautifully written
This short read (90 pages) is a wonderful collection of descriptions Handke made while visiting different cities.Each description reveals an indulgent use of visual and even auditory imagery to open up the natural world and its influence on the observer.

Handke's fairy tale of an ash tree in Munich is an especially intriguing version of a classic genre.

Beauty of language - clarity of thought
These "travel" essays verge on being prose poems.Peter Handke uses close observation of the world around him to weave an image of the world within - both personal and universal.In this way he produces a remarkable study on the human condition.Add to your must read listespecially if you have any fondness for M. Duras or A. Ernaux. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more