Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War

by Martha Caroline Taylor

Book Overview

Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107415403
• ISBN13: 9781107415409
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"