Thucydides: Book VI

by Thucydides and E.C. Marchant

Book Overview

Book VI of Thucydides deals, through its speeches in particular, with Athenian motivation towards sending the great expedition to Sicily, with the attitudes of various factions involved, and with the seeds of the expedition's ultimate disastrous conclusion. It contains memorable sections on Alcibiades, on the Athenians' excitement at the sailing, on the mutilation of the Herms and a digression on the fall of Athenian tyranny a century earlier. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853995878
• ISBN13: 9781853995873
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"