Thoukydidou Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia ē = Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. / Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thucydides.

Contributor:

Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598, Printer.

Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457, Translator.

Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.

Chytraeus, David, 1531-1600.

Ammianus Marcellinus.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

Talbot, William, 1658 or 1659-1730, Former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

History of the Peloponnesian War. Latin & Greek

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

[20], 621, [15], 73, [7] p. ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Edition:

In hac secunda editione quae amplius quàm in prima praestita fuerint, extrema ad lectorem epistola docebit.

Other Title:

Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia 8

Peri tou Peloponnēsiakou polemou biblia ē

Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII

Thvcydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII.

De bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII

Place of Publication:

[Genevae] : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, Anno M. D. LXXXVIII. [1588].

Language Note:

Greek text and Latin translation by Laurentius Valla in parallel columns.

Notes:

Greek and Latin texts edited by Henri Estienne, with notes by Estienne and Isaac Casaubon.

Includes a life of Thucydides by Ammianus Marcellinus with Latin translation by Casaubon.

"Chronologia historiae Thucydidis" by D. Chytraeus on [15] p., 3rd sequence.

"De Graecis in Thucydidem scholiis, huic editioni appositis, Henr. Stephani iudicium" on [73] p., 4th sequence.

"Index orationum, siue concionum" and "Concionum seu orationum Thucydides argumenta" follow main text.

Signatures: [paragraph mark]⁶ 2[paragraph mark]⁴ a-nnn⁶ ooo⁴.

Henri Estienne's printer's device on title page.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Originally published 1564, this edition has corrections to the Greek text.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy with bookplate of William Talbot, Lord Bishop of Oxford, 1702; copy inscribed: To Manuel de Bestemati Esq., the gitt of a dear friend [name unreadable] 18th July 1845; "cheat sheet" for abbreviations and varying forms of Greek letters laid in.

Cited in:

Renouard, A. A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, v. 1, p. 152-153

OCLC:

182791398