A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books I - III

by Simon Hornblower

This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Of the three books covered in this volume, Book I presents Thucydides' aims in writing the work and the historical background to the war. Books II and III describe the main events of the first five years of the war (431-426) and include Pericles' funeral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198150997
• ISBN13: 9780198150992
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"