A New History of the Peloponnesian War

✍ Scribed by Lawrence A. Tritle

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian. A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta by an established scholarOffers an original interpretation of how and why the war beganWeaves in the contemporary evidence of Aristophanes in order to give readers a new sense of how the war affected the individualDiscusses the practicalities and realities of the warExamines the blossoming of culture and intellectual achievement in Athens despite the warChallenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of the war

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История древнего мира;История античного мира;История Древней Греции;