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The structure of Thucydides' history / Hunter R. Rawlings III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rawlings, Hunter R., author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library ; 563
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Historiography.
- Greece.
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
- Thucydides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter Rawlings contends that Thucydides consciously divided the war into two parallel ten-year conflicts with a period of nominal peace in the middle.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on References
- Abbreviations
- Chapter I. The Two Ten-Year Wars
- Chapter II. Books I and VI as Introductions
- Chapter III: Books II and VII : The First Years of the Wars; Leaders and Problems
- Chapter IV: Books III and VIII: Revolt and Revolution
- Chapter V: Books "IX" and "X": Thucydides' Plan
- Chapter Vl: Some Conclusions
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-64248-6
- 0-691-61491-1
- 1-4008-5657-4
- OCLC:
- 889252540
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