Chance and Intelligence in Thucydides
β Lowell Edmunds
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π
1975
π Harvard University Press
π English
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Chance and intelligence in Thucydides
β Scribed by Edmunds, Lowell
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 255
- Series
- Loeb classical monographs
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- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
The first speech of Pericles (1.140-144) --
The speech in oratio obliqua (2.13) --
The funeral oration (2.35-46) --
The third speech of Pericles (2.60-64) --
Comparison of the Perclean with certain traditional concepts of the city --
The Corinthians' analysis of the difference between Sparta and Athens --
Archidamus' analysis and defense of the Spartan constitution --
Spartan analysis of success and failure --
The Spartan character of Nicias --
The technical character of Thucydides' methodology --
Tyche in history.
β¦ Subjects
Thucydides -- History of the Peloponnesian War;Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B C -- Historiography;Pericles, -- approximately 495 B C -429 B C;Fortune;Intellect;History -- Philosophy;Thucydide;PeΜricleΜs, -- 499-429 av J -C;Intelligence;Histoire -- Philosophie;Chance;GreΜce -- Histoire -- JusquβaΜ 146 av J -C;History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides);Historiography;Greece;Historia Geral;Classical Studies, other;Classical Studies
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