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Thucydides and the pursuit of freedom / Mary P. Nichols.
LIBRA DF229.T6 N53 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nichols, Mary P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thucydides--Political and social views.
- Thucydides.
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
- Liberty.
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides).
- Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 196 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Thucydides as historian
- Periclean Athens and an image of freedom
- Athenian freedom in the balance: Mytilene and Plataea
- Sparta, Brasidas, and the liberation of Hellas
- Sicily, Alcibiades, and the liberation of Eros
- Homecoming and freedom
- Conclusion: Thucydides, an Athenian.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801453168
- 080145316X
- OCLC:
- 881875850
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